Kuantai Yeh, Intel Capital China, Chief Representative Close Window

Kuantai Yeh is Chief Representative of Intel Capital China. He focuses on Intel's investment activities in the PRC. Intel Capital is the strategic investment arm of Intel Corporation. Since its inception, Intel Capital has invested over US$ 7.5 billion in more than 1,000 companies worldwide. Mr. Yeh is board observer in 51.com, BCD, Chipsbrand, Incesoft, Montage Technology, Palm Commerce, Winking Entertainment, Verisilicon, and Yeepay. He has also invested in Actions Semiconductors (Nasdaq: ACTS).

Prior to joining Intel, Mr. Yeh was an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) based in Hong Kong for 5 years, responsible for the non-Japan Asia Technology Investment Banking business for local technology companies. He was responsible for the sourcing and execution of many IPOs, follow-on offerings, private placements, convertible bonds and mergers and acquisitions with total transaction sizes exceeding US$5 billion.

Prior to his investment banking career, Mr. Yeh worked at Cypress Semiconductors from 1991 to 1997 in various engineering roles including Technology Integration Manager and Fab Engineering Manager. During the time, Mr. Yeh led several R&D teams to successfully develop 3 generations of SRAM process technologies and put into volume production.

Mr. Yeh holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Material Science, a MENG degree in Electrical Engineering and a MBA degree, all from Cornell University. Mr. Yeh is also the holder of two US patents in semiconductor process technology.