An entrepreneur and professional executive with a proven track record of success, Ben brings twenty years of experience doing business in both China and the USA as well as expertise in information technology, manufacturing, and international trade.

Prior to PowerBridge, Ben co-founded and served as CEO of Lorons International Corporation (1,000 employees with operations in China and the US), a manufacturer, importer, exporter, and distributor of medical devices.

Previously, Ben was at Instrument System Corporation, a telecommunications equipment and services company, where his responsibilities included system design and development, technical management, and project management.

Ben holds BS (Electrical Engineering) and MBA degrees from State University of New York and New York Institute of Technology. He also completed graduate level coursework in Electrical Engineering at Polytechnic University.

Diem Le
Executive Vice-President

Diem has over twenty years of experience as an executive and technologist in Asia, Silicon Valley and Boston. Prior to PowerBridge, he was a senior executive at several US software start-ups in the areas of enterprise security, CRM and business-to-business technology infrastructure. Diem was also a venture partner at Crimson Ventures, where he was responsible for evaluating software and Internet investment opportunities for the fund. Diem also founded AvantGarde, a consulting organization specializing in assisting U.S. and foreign technology companies with international sales and marketing issues. He is currently on the advisory board of several technology companies in Silicon Valley.

From 1990 to 1997, Diem served as Vice President of International Operations for Programart Corporation, a leader in performance software, where he successfully built the company's international sales from scratch, leading to the acquisition of the company by Compuware Corporation. Prior to that, Diem held a variety of management and sales/marketing management positions for technology companies including Hewlett Packard, IBM and Intermetrics. Diem holds a MBA from Harvard Business School. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College, earning a B.A. in Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Wei Chen
Chief Technology Officer

Wei has architected and implemented many highly-available and robust commercial enterprise software products, ranging from distributed computing infrastructure to business-to-business integration applications. He has a long track record of conceptualizing and taking products through the entire software development lifecycle. He has played a key role in shaping companies' technology visions and has acted as a technical evangelists with industry analysts and engineers. Wei is an expert on J2EE, XML and Business Process Management (BPM). He has contributed to various BPM standards such as BPML and BPEL4WS.

Prior to joining PowerBridge, Wei was the lead technologist in charge of integrating web services capabilities to the BusinessWare platform at Vitria Technologies. He also architected the XML-based B2B integration system at Netfish (Iona Technologies), the IIOP Proxy Server product at Visigenic (Borland Corp.), and the Java-based workgroup information management system at Starfish Software. Wei also held senior technical positions at Oracle Corporation and Prisma Software (Borland).

Wei holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, and a MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford Univesity.