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Mr. Bob Lin Fu-Yuan
Co-Founder & General Partner,
ACorn Campus, ACorn Venture, Asia Capital Group

Bob is the co-founder of Acorn Campus and Acorn Angels, two of the most reputable investment organizations in Asian American community. In addition to having extensive angels and corporate investment expertise with multiple IPOs, he also has more than 20 years of international business start-up, marketing, and management experiences. He is very well known for being the first launching investor of Avanti (IPO '95), AltiGen (IPO '97) and LightLogic (Sold to Intel for $400M '01). He is an early investor in Vertex Network (Sold to Mitel for $200M '99). He is also the co-founder of Pine Photonics (sold to Hitachi/Opnext '03). With Acorn, Bob was also an investor of AFOP (IPO '00) and Rapidstream (M&A, '02).

Bob is the co-owner and board director of several medium-size manufacturing companies in Asia with a combined number of employees near 4,000. Bob also serves as the Chairman of Mobile Radius, a wireless platform company in California, and on the board of Pine Photonics and Luxnet in Fremont, California, as well as Atonics, a SoC Semiconductor company in Taiwan, plus EPIN Wireless System in Beijing. Bob is also the author of an inspiring book "Pursuit of Success & Happiness" and has been asked to write several more books for the next few years. In the past, he had been the lead guitarist and pianist of the rock band "Southern Breed" in Taiwan.

Bob has been very active in generous community services. He was the Chairman twice in Chinese Association of International Trade (CAIT), Board member of Monte Jade Association, Board member of Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce. He has also served both as the Commissioner and the Chairman of Santa Clara County - HsinChu County Commission. Bob has a MSEE degree from University of California at Santa Barbara. He has been very active in community services.