Luke Shi

As General Manager of OpenConcept Systems China, Mr. Shi is responsible for leading the development organization in China to perform research and development for in-house products and the outsourced engineering activities in China. He brings to this role with more than 20 years of experience in high-tech industry leading software development and professional services organizations in US, China, and Asia/Pacific countries.

In the past 8 years, Mr. Shi has successfully built and led R&D centers in China for AOL, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems. In 2007, he joined AOL as Deputy General Manager for AOL China where he grew the R&D organization from zero to a strong software engineering force. Under the leadership of Mr. Shi, AOL China R&D teams successfully developed and delivered many products and technologies, including AOL Daily Finance for iPhone (#1 free finance iPhone application 5 days after its release), AOL music search (saved millions of dollars for AOL), Portals for China and US, AOL Mobile Platform and various mobile applications, AOL Widgets, Data & Content Analysis Technologies, Presentation Services for Financial back-end (Relegence), etc. Several US patents were filed within one year of AOL China establishment. Prior to AOL, Mr. Shi worked at Microsoft as Director of Software Development for MSN R&D Groups in Beijing.

From 1987 to 2005, Mr. Shi worked for Sun Microsystems, Inc. He joined Sun in Beijing as Sun's first system engineer in China. 3 years later, he transferred to Sun's headquarter in Silicon Valley as part of Sun's core software engineering group where he wrote a lot of code for SunOS, Solaris, OpenWindows, and Java. When Internet was booming, he joined Sun Professional Services as Senior Manager and Chief Architect for SunPS Asia/Pacific. He set up SunPS Java Service Centers in Greater China and leading many SunPS Internet/Java consultant projects in Asia/Pacific countries. In 2001, Mr. Shi took an important assignment to establish Sun R&D center (Sun China Engineering and Research Institute, ERI) in China. He played two roles there: as Deputy General Manager of ERI, he built infrastructure, culture, led ERI directions, and ran day-to-day operations for the site; as Director of Engineering for Sun, he led R&D groups and product development. He built ERI from ground up to become a strategic engineering site for Sun - ERI grew to 350 people in 3 years and played critical role in software development for Sun's core product lines: Solaris, J2SE, J2ME, and Java Desktop, etc.

Mr. Shi graduated from Tsinghua University and Peking University where he received BS and MS in Computer Science.