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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

– Aristotle

Executives and Management

SO, Daniel (BS, MS, PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

– Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Co-founded a tech startup and three seed business units at Intel with 20+ years of management and R&D experience at Intel, HP/Agilent and Motorola. Has been a strong advocate for applying nanotechnologies to solve biological problems.

HO, Chi Yip (BS, Concordia University; PhD in Biochemistry, University of British Columbia)

– Co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer

Early adopter of fore-front high-throughput genomics analysis for two decades with 15+ years of R&D experience as director of high-throughput genomics at Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto/NGS lab at University of Chicago. Led the first Canadian research team to re-sequence the SARS virus.

WONG, Ka Wai (BS, MPhil, PhD in Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

– Co-founder, VP of Research and Development

Co-founded two hi-tech startups. Has 15+ years of experience as key technology provider and a seasoned research achievement with around 100 internationally refereed journal papers and 14 patents granted.

CHU, Howard Ho Hwa

– Non-executive Member of Board of Directors

Obtained a master’s degree of business administration from the Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree of science from the University of Rochester in 1990 and 1986, respectively. He has over 15 years of business experience and over 9 years of experience in corporate governance. From 2012 to 28 February 2018, he was the chief executive officer of mReferral Corporation (HK) Limited which is a leading mortgage referral company and is a joint venture of Midland Holdings Limited and Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited. From March 2012 to June 2012, he was the chief financial officer of China Smart Electric Co. Ltd. From July 2009 to October 2011, he was the chief financial officer of Trony Solar Holdings Company Limited which was a publicly listed company on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. He has previously worked for Shanghai Century Acquisition Corporation, a company listed on the American Stock Exchange, and United Energy Group Limited, a company listed on the Stock Exchange. He was a director at ABN AMRO Asia Corporate Finance Ltd. and was also a director at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd. From June 2012 to June 2015, he was an independent non-executive director of Weichai Power Co. Ltd. which is a publicly listed company on the Main Board of Stock Exchange.

他在国际研究期刊上发表超过95篇同行评审论文,并已申请19项专利(15项已获批,4项申请中)。加入Genvida之前,他曾在多家私营公司担任研发总监和技术顾问。他亦是两家高科技初创公司的联合创始人。

Board of Directors

Strategic Partners

  • The Microfabrication and Exploratory Nanotechnology (MeN) Group of International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL)
  • Professor LEE, Ji Ung (SUNY Polytechnic Institute)
  • Professor SHAW, Pang Chui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Professor TSANG, Stephen (City University of Hong Kong)
  • Professor YAM, Chi Yung (Beijing Computational Science Research Center)
will be announced soon…

Professor YAM, Chi Yung (Beijing Computational Science Research Center)

Being a team leader, Prof. Yam leads a capable research to investigate charge transport characteristics and phenomena using various modeling and simulation methods, such as multi-scale modeling, quantum mechanical simulation and molecular dynamics. He works with Genvida to investigate the subtle and complex translocation phenomenon through different nanopore configurations.

Strategic Partners

Professor TSANG, Stephen
(City University of Hong Kong)

Prof. Tsang is currently the Associate Professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering in City University of Hong Kong, leading a research team on organic and nano electronics. He is a renowned expert in novel nano electronic devices and advanced characterization of electronic processes in organic and nano materials. He collaborates with Genvida to develop novel measurement techniques to collect and analyze the electrical and electronic signals induced by DNA translocation through nanopore.