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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

NYSIA International Council
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: NYSIA Incubator, 55 Broad Street
(between Beaver and Exchange Streets),
10th Floor
Directions: J, M, Z trains to Broad Street. 4,
5 trains to Bowling Green. 2, 3 trains to Wall
Street.
Admission: Free for NYSIA Members, $20
for non-members, $25 for walk-in non-
members.
Registration: REGISTER HERE, or call (212)
475-4503. There is not guaranteed entrance
for walk-in attendees.
Registration closes: Tuesday, February 13,
12:30 PM
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Hong Kong Gives US Digital Media, IT Firms
Tariff-Free, Special Market Access to China
Panelists
Irene Chiu, Associate, Business
Transactions Practice, Morgan Lewis
Kevin He, Associate, Intellectual Property
Practice, Morgan Lewis
Louis Ho, Director, New York Office, Hong
Kong Trade Development Council
SIG Leaders
Angelina Hsiaoping Jao, President/CEO,
TMGI, Inc.
Profile: Irene Chiu
Irene Chiu is an associate in the Business
Transactions Practice. Ms. Chiu's practice
focuses on representing public and private
companies in mergers and acquisitions; advising
emerging growth companies and investors in
venture capital financing; forming joint ventures,
partnerships, corporations, and other forms of
entity; and counseling clients on general
business law and corporate & securities law.

Ms. Chiu also represents and advises

information technology and life sciences clients
American service companies evaluating the
regarding collaboration, strategic alliances,
China market today find surprisingly improved
licensing, intellectual property rights,
conditions. IP-intensive service companies can
outsourcing and commercialization of technology
beneficially access the China market in ways
assets; counsels manufacturing companies
not previously possible. By positioning with
regarding distribution and supply agreements;
Hong Kong service companies, American
and negotiates clinical trial agreements for
companies can take advantage of preferential
domestic and international pharmaceutical
treatment to the lucrative China market. Hong
companies.
Kong is the entre point for IP property rights
protection in a free trade and strong
Ms. Chiu has experience with clients doing
investment environment, as well as tariff-free
business in China and Hong Kong, including joint
access to mainland China opportunities.
ventures, wholly foreign-owned entities,
manufacturing, licensing, distribution and supply
Software and IT firms in many industries can
arrangements. Ms. Chiu is fluent in Chinese and
directly benefit: legal, accounting, medical,
possesses a conversational level of Japanese.
cultural entertainment, information technology,
job referral agencies, patent & trademark
Ms. Chiu is admitted to practice in New Jersey
agencies, game creators, audiovisual,
and New York.
construction, distribution, banking, securities,
transport, freight forwarding agencies,
Profile: Kevin He
individually owned stores, airport services,
Xin "Kevin" He is an associate in Morgan Lewis's
management consultants, and other service-
Intellectual Property Practice. Mr. He's practice
industry firms.
includes intellectual property litigation, licensing,
opinion work, and patent prosecution. He has
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litigated many cases involving flash memory
Seminar featuring legal, accounting, and
drives, wide bandgap (WBG), light-emitting
government official representatives to learn

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government official representatives to learn

diodes (LEDs), electronic watches, and PDAs, as
how to be entitled to the benefits offered a
well as other technology areas such as
service company, regardless of the nationality
semiconductor manufacturing processes,
of its investors or shareholders.
computer software, and telecommunication
systems. Mr. He also advises clients on
licensing, opinion, and patent prosecution
matters. His practice covers most areas of
physics and electrical engineering, including
wireless telecommunications, digital signal
processing, Internet technology, e-commerce,
software, integrated circuits, business methods,
fiber optics, lasers, nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR), and xerography.

Mr. He, who is fluent in Chinese and English, is

also a member of the firm's Greater China
Practice and has represented multiple Chinese
companies in their patent litigations in the
United States.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. He was a

patent agent at a leading intellectual property
boutique. Prior to that, he was a member of the
technical staff (MTS) at Lucent Technologies
working on software development of 3G CDMA
wireless telecommunication systems.

Mr. He received his J.D. from Fordham

University School of Law in 2005. He received
his Ph.D. and M.S., both in electrical
engineering, from the University of Notre Dame
in 2001 and 1998, respectively. Me. He received
his B.S. in electrical engineering from Tsinghua
University, China in 1995.

Mr. He is admitted to practice in New York and

before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Profile: Louis Ho
Louis Ho assumed his position as Director, New
York Office, Hong Kong Trade Development
Council (HKTDC) in 2001 following a career with
HKTDC that spans more than 20 years. Early in
his career, Mr. Ho managed HKTDC's
promotional activities in emerging markets
including the Middle East, Africa and Latin
America.

Mr. Ho has worked in HKTDC offices in London,

Miami, Tokyo and Hong Kong. As Director, Japan
he developed and implemented trade strategies
between Hong Kong and Japan.

Mr. Ho earned his BBA from Gonzaga University

in Spokane, Wash. and attended the Harvard
Business School Executive Program in Hong
Kong.

Profile: Angelina Hsiaoping Jao

Ms. Jao's broad experience with economic
development and global marketing has been
garnered from leading teams in both corporate
and entrepreneurial positions. After several
successful years in global data

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telecommunications marketing and sales for

Global 100 telecom companies, Ms. Jao saw a
niche opportunity and founded TMGI, a
management consulting firm specializing in
global strategic business and economic
sustainable development (www.tmgi.us). TMGI
focuses upon developing integrated
communications platforms for international
clients, and has enjoyed significant growth in
recent years.

Ms. Jao's economic development, teaching, and

non-profit community work include
appointments as Instructor at the Graduate
Center, City University of New York (Marketing
and the Internet), Chairperson of the Global
Trade and Technology Center, Board of
Directors member and Services Committee
Chairperson of the Southwest Brooklyn
Economic Development Corporation, Chairperson
and Founder of the International Council of the
New York Software Industry Association,
Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans, New York
Asian Womens Center, Liberty World Outrigger
Competition, others.

Ms. Jao hails from Washington DC metro,

daughter of an elected regional business leader
and an award-winning published Professor of
Chinese Linguistics and Classics. Ms. Jao was a
Pre-Law major at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, where she earned a B.A. in
International Relations, Political Science and
English. She has completed professional studies
in Information Technology at New York
University and Columbia University, and has an
M.S. in Policy Development/ Global Commerce
Management from the University of Maryland.

Ms. Jao is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, a

classically trained pianist and former amateur
bodybuilder and student of martial arts. Ms. Jao
is based in New York City and travels
frequently. She is the founder of a number of
international and regional social and professional
networking clubs.

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