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Doug Sincliar

Board Member

Doug Sinclair brings Relay2 a wealth of senior financial and operational management expertise across a range of industries, including enterprise software, telecommunications, and Internet services. His experience spans from start-up ventures to established public companies. He has led four initial public offerings, four successful corporate sales, numerous acquisitions, corporate turnarounds, and a management buy-out. Doug was Chief Financial Officer of EcoFactor, Inc., a pioneer in cloud-based energy management services. He was CFO of IPWireless, where he led the company’s management buyout from its parent company, NextWave Wireless, and played a role in its subsequent acquisition by General Dynamics. Doug was also CFO of Zing Systems (where he negotiated the company’s sale to Dell Inc.), and CFO of Stentor, Inc. (which was sold to Royal Philips Electronics for $275 million). He served as CFO and Chief Operating Officer of Vertical Networks, Inc., and CFO of Evolve Software, Inc., where he raised $30 million in mezzanine round funding and completed a successful NASDAQ IPO. Prior to that, as CFO at SoftNet Systems, Inc., he arranged for interim private financing and coordinated a $150 million secondary offering. He also served as CFO of SoftNet Systems, Inc.; of International Wireless Communications, Inc., and of Pittencrieff Communications, Inc., where he orchestrated the company’s NASDAQ IPO.

Doug earned an M.B.A. from Harvard and a B.S. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Wei Yuan

Board Member

Wei Yuan is a senior business executive with more than twenty years of experience spanning strategy, business development, marketing and sales, and general management. He was Managing Director of the Energy Foundation China program, a program devoted to promote polices and practices that deal with issues of climate change, air quality and clean energy. Before that, he served as a Vice President for Strategic Sales at Research-in-Motion, head of Nokia-Siemens network consulting and system integration business unit for China, Vice President at Nokia Networks responsible for China Unicom, China Telecom, China Netcom and Taiwan-Hong Kong carriers account operations. He was a senior Vice President with Arraycomm and also served as a senior executive with several Silicon Valley-based wireless ventures.

Wei has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and engineering degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and the Hangzhou University of Electronic Science and Technology.

Satoshi Arano

Country Manager, Japan

Arano joined Relay2 from Mitel (Mavenir/Stoke) to open Japan market.

In previous careers Arano spans business development roles and restructuring of global companies in Japan, in Stoke after win of NTT Docomo business added KDDI and Soft Bank as customers, in ZTE recover mobile business in short period and reconstruct Network Business Division by hiring 80 Japanese, in Raritan reconstruct partner structure and sales organization and increase market share from 25% to 55%, in Alcatel-Lucent working throughout North Asia and APAC to establish Japan business, in Centillium Communications in charge of ADSL and FTTH chipset business with NTT and Japanese vendors(NEC, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Oki), in Ericsson as Senior marketing manager in charge of contract negotiation of 3G system with J-Phone(Soft Bank) , in Avionics during log period as High Density Packaging Engineer in charge of a number of national projects in defense and space area and after cold war started to work in cellular phone market.

Wei Lu

VP of Business Development, China

Wei Lu brings over seventeen years experience in business development, solution sales and marketing in mobile industry. Prior to Relay2, he held a variety of management positions in business development, sales and marketing, and professional service in Nokia, where he experienced mobile infrastructure business growth in China.

Wei graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications with Bachelor Degree on engineering, and Advanced Management Program from China Europe International Business School

Andreas Steinmetzler

Director of Program Management

Before joining Relay2, Andreas enjoyed 6 years doing research and development at Microsoft. During his time in Microsoft Research he worked on future wireless networking concepts and methods of empiric software engineering, which lead to the grant of three patents and a number of publications. Prior to working with Microsoft, he held different engineering/management positions at Nokia Networks in the SGSN and GGSN platform development and CTO office. He also worked many years as software developer in the areas of high-performance computing (Pallas GmbH acquired by Intel) and industry automation. Andreas holds a B.Sc. honors in Computer Science from the University of Applied Science Cologne – Germany.

Eric Chen

CEO & Founder

As Relay2’s Founder and CEO, Eric is responsible for leading the company’s product development and technology solutions to support business strategy.

He founded Relay2 in 2011 with the vision of the next generation cloud controller as a platform. He was the CEO until 2013 and has led the company from its birth through the early stages. Prior to Relay2, Eric was a senior member of the CTO Office at Nokia Networks Systems and was granted one US and International patent during his tenure at Nokia. Previously, he was a senior software engineering manager at Asus Computer International, Tahoe Networks, and Cisco Systems, Inc.

Eric holds a B.S. degree from National Taiwan University as well as an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University.