Management Team

Andrew Lee, Chairman and CEO

Stephen M. Soble, Deputy Chairman

Bruce Polatnick, Executive Vice President, Business Development & Marketing
Bruce was the founder of Garmex, Inc. a venture catalyst/marketing strategist company. In 1987, Mr. Polatnick conceived of and founded a company specializing in a pre-Internet on-line database network for apparel wholesalers. In 1996, his company partnered with Softech, a public company, to develop an Internet version of the system. In the late 1970s he was Chief Executive of the Scottish Council For Development and Industry.

Bruce also founded an international import/export company for apparel, food and electronics products in countries such as Swaziland, Argentina, and Nepal for companies such as Jordache, Federated, Saks, Neiman Marcus and The Limited.

Bruce obtained his M.B.A. from Pace University (N.Y.) and B.A. English from Tulane University (New Orleans).

James Johnstone, Executive Vice President, International Sales and Business Development
James has worked in many emerging markets including China and the Middle East. He has worked with Arthur D. Little, Egon Zehnder International (London, Tokyo and New York) and Heidrick and Struggles. In the late 1970s he was Chief Executive of the Scottish Council For Development and Industry. He later became Executive Assistant to Robert Maxwell, Chairman of Pergamon Press and subsequently was appointed to head a technical publishing data based systems division of Pergamon. Throughout the 1990s Mr. Johnstone has spent substantial time in China joining a major American/Chinese conglomerate where he was appointed Managing Director of First Shanghai Corporation. Moreover, he has been involved as a principal in ventures related to risk management software and Internet multimedia.

James earned a Masters (Honors) in Economics from Edinburgh University and an MBA from Harvard University, which he attended on scholarships from the St. Andrews Society of New York and Shell International.

Cary Ng, Vice President, Finance and Administration
Cary is a senior finance executive with international experience. Cary was the Chief Financial Officer and VP Finance of a Canadian public company which has two joint-venture factories in China and a wholly owned subsidiary in Thailand, and was director of two Sino-Canadian joint ventures. Cary Ng has over 17 years of experience as a senior executive in industries such as manufacturing and distribution of industrial minerals, retailing of consumer electronics, financial leasing, software development and health care. In addition, he had a consulting practice focusing in system design and implementation, process re-engineering, financing and Sino-foreign joint ventures.

Cary was trained as a Chartered Accountant with a major international accounting firm after obtaining his M.B.A. in Canada.

Rick Smets, Vice President, Advanced Research & Development
Rick has practiced as a consultant in systems development. He has developed a variety of systems including positioning systems, factory networks, measurement instruments, telephone answering equipment and aircraft instruments. He managed a number of development groups including leading one in England that developed one of the first network file servers. Prior to that he was the Director of Research and Development at Q1 Corp overseeing the development of the first desktop office computer.

Rick earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University and a MS in Computer Science from New York University.

Jimmy Jiang, Vice President, Product Research and Development
Jimmy has over 15 years of experience in research, development, and management in industries including Internet and web site design, Time attendance and Human resource software systems, and Highway Traffic control systems.

Jimmy graduated with a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology.

K. T. Lee, Managing Director, Asia Pacific Operations
KT has worked in construction management for several major infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and South East Asia including the Plover Cover Water Scheme, the East-West Kowloon Corridor, the New World Center, and the Cross Harbor Tunnel.

KT finished his Civil Engineering education.

Ross T. M. Lim, Managing Director, Singapore/Malaysia/Thailand

Ross was the founder of Millennium IT Pte. Ltd., an IT company that focused on Y2K solutions and holds the international distribution rights to "Y2K PASS!" firmware cards.

Ross possesses extensive commercial experience in the South East Asian and Mainland China markets.

Andrew Weiss, Director, Linux and Network Development
Andrew has extensive experience in deploying, maintaining, and working with the hardware development aspects of Linux, *BSD, and Darwin/MacOS X installations.
Andrew obtained his Bachelors of Science with Thesis from the University of Delaware.

David Lee, Senior Manager, Industrial Design
David was a consultant with Krent-Paffett Associates, an exhibit design firm in Boston.

David earned a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design with a concentration in consumer products from the Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Ramon Woo, Senior Manager, Art Direction
Ramon is a multi-disciplinary designer with extensive identity, print, product and web design background. Heavily involved in the world of arts, Ramon held various positions in the Museum of Modern Art, Koury Wingate Gallery, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, and the Gagosian Gallery in New York.

Ramon received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College with a major in Multimedia Studio Art.

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