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Executive Bios
Chairman

Fred S. L. Chan

  Fred Chan is chairman of the board of Vialta, Inc. Prior to founding Vialta, Inc., Chan founded ESS Technology, Inc. in 1985 where he still presides as chairman of the board. Chan was president and chief executive officer of AC Design, Inc., a VLSI chip design center, providing CAD, engineering and design services. He previously served as president and chief executive officer at CADCAM Technology, Inc., a CAE system development company that he also co-founded. His earlier experience includes various engineering and management positions at EMI and Intel. Chan received B.S.E.E. and M.S.C. degrees from the University of Hawaii.
 

 

President / Chief Operating Officer


Yin-Wu Chen

  Yin-Wu Chen joined Vialta, Inc. in 2001 as vice president of engineering, bringing over 15 years of consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications experience. Prior to Vialta, Inc., he was cofounder, president, and chief executive officer of PROTON Communications, a Taiwan-based company, developing videophones, network computers, CCD cameras, CCTV monitors, and digital recorders. He also served as executive vice president of the parent company, PROTON Electronic Industrial, a brand-name manufacturer of consumer electronics, and was responsible for the overall operations of the 650-person company with production and sales channels in Taiwan and overseas.

Earlier in his career, Chen was with AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and worked on various networking projects.

Chen received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on radar signal processing using a non-linear spectral estimation algorithm. He also has an M.S.E.E. from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S.E.E. from National Taiwan University.