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Jin Luo 罗晋 President and the founder of FTC, Jin’s technical experience started as a staff researcher at the Computation and Neural Systems program at Caltech (Pasadena, CA). He then became a founding engineer, staff researcher, and business unit director at Tanner Research, a government research and electronics design automation company (Pasadena, CA). He founded General Circuits, LLC in 2003, a company later acquired by Vivace Semiconductor (Boston, MA). Jin is also a co-founder of the Beijing International Creative Design Center and Parks, an urban development JV with a Beijing government function.

Jin has been working in Beijing’s urban industries since the 1970s. He has years of experience directing international enterprise developments and has hands-on experience in the execution and delivery of government R&D contracts in the US and China. His international consulting expertise in a variety of technology and design fields is unmatched.

Jin’s industrial and engineering expertise includes integrated circuit (IC), DSP-enabled embedded system and SoC (system on chip) product development, silicon manufacturing, electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor intellectual property (SIP), multi-media consumer electronics product developments, industrial relations, and strategic business development. Jin is especially resourceful in creating startup businesses with innovative technologies and concepts. He develops close relationships with inventors, helps build lean and portable startups, and form team resources with collective reward structures.

Jin received his BS in computer engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology (1983) and his MS in computer science from Caltech (1987). Born and self-made in Beijing, Jin studied, worked, and lived in Los Angeles, California for over twenty years.

Maria Gangemi, Esq. 文秀 Vice President and Counsel to FTC, Maria utilizes her extensive legal background to assist FTC and its clients in all phases of FTC projects. An American dispute-resolution and corporate problem-solving attorney, she calls upon a broad-ranging background in legal practice encompassing negotiation, counseling, discovery, motion practice, all phases of litigation, mediation and arbitration in order to develop and implement creative approaches to business and legal challenges. Maria graduated cum laude in the field of linguistics from Harvard University in 2003. She received her J.D. in 2006 from the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the editorial board of USC’s Review of Law and Women’s Studies/Review of Law and Social Justice.

Maria was admitted to the California bar in 2006 and began her legal career with three years at the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and in California’s Central, Northern, Southern and Eastern federal district courts, she is sitting for the New York bar in 2011. Her expertise in United States corporate law and Western business methods facilitates FTC’s international business practice.

Zhang Huanping 张焕萍 Manager of Corporate Services, Zhang Huanping is skilled in managing multiple accounts of Chinese domestic corporate operations, experienced in working with both technology startup companies and conventional trading enterprises, and government regulations and tax issues. She has owned and operated an independent accounting service company since 2004 and has over 20 years of experience as an accountant, auditor, and corporate finance manager.

Cary Ussery 凯睿 A Project Scientist of FTC, Cary is a computer software scientist and microprocessor architect. He founded the DSP company Improv Systems (Boston, MA) in 1997. He also co-founded and served as CEO of the multimedia processor component company Vivace Semiconductor (Beijing, China) in 2005. Early in his career, Cary was an established team leader in Electronic Design Automation (EDA). In Beijing, Cary co-founded the Beijing International Creative Design Center and Parks.

Cary graduated from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Cary is a mathematician, a musician and writer, and a world traveler currently based in Beijing.

Mika Nyström, PhD FTC’s Project Scientist, Mika is a design consultant with world-class expertise in asynchronous circuit inventions and design methodology and microprocessor architecture, modeling and programming. He teaches computer programming at Caltech (CA) and is co-inventor and co-founder of Generation Capital (London, UK), a stock trading software company. Mika possesses specialized experience in mechanical engineering, small aircraft aviation, rotary engine technology, and various industrial designs.

Mika received his PhD in computer science from Caltech, and did his post-doctoral research there. He received his MS from MIT. A pilot, engineer and world traveler, Mika is fluent and familiar with several European languages. He is a Swedish citizen and a US permanent resident, stationed in Pasadena, CA.

Jeet Asher 季艾什 FTC’s Project Engineer, he anchors FTC’s US operations. As an experienced computer software engineer and product developer, Jeet has worked in electronic circuit design, CPU architecture, software, and design automation. He has experience in managing client projects, design brokerages, international sales, and application engineering. Jeet’s engineering skills specialize in electronics design automation and systems development.

Jeet grew up in Mumbai, India. He received his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester (New York) and an MS in Computer Science from UCLA (Los Angeles, CA). Jeet is stationed in Irvine, CA.

Peiling Luo, PhD 罗沛霖 Co-founder, advocate and shareholder of FTC, Dr. Luo is a senior member of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is one of the key founders of China’s information industry. He led the group of seven distinguished scientists who advocated for and established the Chinese Academy of Engineering. An IEEE Life-time Fellow, he was the first Chairman of IEEE’s Beijing Chapter. Dr. Luo played important supervisory roles in China‘s twelve-year Science Development Plan in the 1950s. Furthermore, he was a co-founder of China’s state radar and computer development programs.

Dr. Luo’s life-time experiences have been in enterprise development and R&D administrations. His in-depth observation of the history of science and industry give key insights into how society’s advances impact science and technology. Inspiring FTC’s consulting business, Dr. Luo, although retired from front-line administrative work for many years, is continuing his mission promoting and inspiring Chinese-conceived inventions, as well as continuing to serve as a role model for inventors himself. Leading Chinese inventions, Dr. Luo, at age 95, published two important inventions in digital logic circuit structure and digital signal processor architecture in Frontier Sciences in 2008. He has, for many years, encouraged and recommended Dr. Qiu Xiaoqi’s inventions in Multi-peptide Selective Medicine approaches as a revolutionary industrial platform and a China invention, a truly innovate new technology.

Dr. Luo advocates scientific democracy. He provides visionary thinking for FTC, always pursuing the next fusion of industry, information, culture, and the arts. He is also a public figure, having many times been elected as a representative of the Chinese People’s Congress and Chinese Political Consulting Congress.

罗沛霖，天津市人，1913年出生。南开中学，上海交大电机系学士，美国加州理工学院博士。中国科学院和中国工程院院士，中国信息产业开拓者、奠基人，中国工程院发起人之一。早期在桂林、重庆、延安开创军事无线电事业。1951年建华北无线电器材联合厂(含今北京798厂等6个分厂和第11研究所)。1953年参加12年国家科学规划。相继在机械部十局、 四机部、电子部、信产部任科技局副局长。中国电子学会创始人，国际电气电子工程师学会(IEEE)终身资深会员(Fellow)和中国分会第一任会长，中国电子标准化协会创始人。早期中远程雷达工程、计算机系列等国家重点项目负责人。

罗沛霖终生致力于产业开拓和科研管理。他对科学和工业历史的经历和观察，给予科学技术对社会发展的冲击先见的见解。罗博士虽然退休多年，但全心支持和启发中国科学技术发明，是FTC咨询前沿技术和产业的倡导者和灵感来源。罗沛霖坚持身教于科学发明：95高龄在《前沿科学》发表两篇数字逻辑电路结构和数字信号处理器体系结构的科学发明文献。并多年鼓励和推荐丘小庆博士2003年国际发表的靶向性多肽药物发明，促进革命性产业平台创新和中国超越世界前列的原创发明。

罗沛霖倡导科学民主，他坚持推动下一场社会革命，促进工业、信息、文化和艺术的融合。罗沛霖曾历任数届全国人代表和全国政协代表。