Gene Wang

Gene Wang is Chairman & Co-Founder of People Power, an industry-leading software and services company specializing in custom branded AI-powered telehome solutions for senior care, safety, security, and consumer energy management. A pioneering innovator, Gene is today leading the research and development of next-generation home care services as Principal Investigator for a landmark caregiver study funded by the U.S. National Institute on Aging. Gene was previously Chairman and CEO of Bitfone, an industry leader in mobile phone device management, which sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2007. He was CEO and Chairman of Photo Access, which sold to Agilent in 2000. As CEO of Computer Motion, a leader in medical robotics, he led the company through a successful IPO in 1997. Previous to that, Gene was Executive Vice President of Symantec where he managed four divisions and helped double annual sales. As VP and General Manager at Borland, he drove development and sales of the C++ programming language to more than a million users. Prior to that, Gene was co-founder and marketing leader at Gold Hill Computers, an Artificial Intelligence company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

An avid musician and leader of the People Power Band, Gene earned a degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.