Growing up in Kansas and Missouri did not give Mike the "hick" accent that his three roommates were expecting when he first met them at Princeton University... or so he'd like to think.

After receiving his B.S. in electrical engineering, Mike braved another year to get his masters in the same field but at Cornell University. Ironically enough, Mike has never held a fromal position as an engineer, for not even
a day in his life.

In 1996, Mike joined Citigroup's Management Associate Program in New York, which gave him the opportunity to learn about operational and strategic management issues in a technology-intensive environment. Along the way, his assignments took him to Taipei, his birthplace, where he joined CAPT (Chinese American Professionals in Taiwan) and met a number of international professionals who were to later play active roles in establishing ORIENTED around the Pacific.

Mike was subsequently stationed in Singapore to work at Citigroup's technology headquarters in Asia. In working closely with technology vendors, Mike had his hands full when he was assigned to help standardize Citicorp's Asia Pacific LAN environment in preparation for Y2K.

After two fulfilling years in Asia, Mike returned to the U.S. to attend the Anderson Graduate School of Manage-
ment at UCLA. While getting his MBA in entrepreneurial finance, Mike launched a comic book publishing company with two of his friends, worked with many talented artists, and got the chance to experience the challenges of trying to sustain an entrepreneurial company.

In 2002, Mike returned to his technology roots as well as to the corporate environment and is now part of Arrow Electronics' leadership training program in New York. While stationed stateside, Mike travels frequently to Asia on business and is always blown away with the growth and opportunities in the region, and with the ORIENTED Happy Hours in Shanghai!