Priscilla Lu Ph.D

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Biography

Dr. Priscilla Lu served as Head of Sustainable Investments, Asia Pacific at DWS. Dr. Lu has over twenty-five years of international industry experience in telecommunications, with significant relationships at the CEO, and CTO level with major carriers in China, South East Asia, the U.S. and Europe. She led early efforts in technology innovation in the GSM cellular networking space back in the early nineties, and earned worldwide recognition for her leadership in innovation, with 3 Special Recognition Awards in different years at the 3GSM Annual conference held in Cannes, France. Ms. Lu serves as Chairman and CEO of ViDeOnline Communications. Her current company ViDeonline is the leader in secured video networks with content aggregation for electronic content delivery. The company is poised to launch its services in Asia in the fall of 2006. Major Hollywood content and local content as well as entertainment in music, music videos, games and other content genres are slated for secured downloads. ViDeOnline is also negotiating partnerships with major players in the Chinese media market. Dr. Lu founded interWAVE Communications Ltd as Chairman and from 1994 to 2003 and took the company public in January 2000. She remained a Director on the board of interWAVE, which stayed on the national NASDAQ listing (IWAV), until it was sold in December 2004 to Alvarion (NASDAQ: ALVR). interWAVE designed and manufactured end-to-end GSM and CDMA cellular radio and switching networks, targeting international markets, primarily Middle East, Africa, Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, China and South East Asia. Funding was from Mayfield, Morgan Stanley Ventures, Hutchison, Nortel and Alcatel. Post IPO, additional funding was raised from Eastcom, UT*COM and VIA Technologies. Prior to founding interWAVE, Dr. Lu spent 16 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she led efforts in the design of switching systems, sub-micron CMOS design technologies, VLSI chip designs, IP packet networks, as well as imaging and multi-media technologies. She pioneered the 32-bit CMOS microprocessors, developed the first packet switching systems and designed the first distributed networking UNIX systems at Bell Labs research. Dr. Lu holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics (Hons) from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Northwestern University (under the Bell Labs Doctorate Scholarship Program) and has over 50 patents in the area of telecommunications and networking. She was Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at InterWAVE Communications International.