Cheung Nim Kwan

Dr. CHEUNG Nim Kwan is an independent non-executive director of the Group and a member of audit committee, remuneration committee and nomination committee of the Group. Dr. CHEUNG is Managing Director of a start-up company in Hong Kong Science Park. He was Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), a 500-member R&D organization in the information and communications area established by the Hong Kong SAR Government. He has founded and served as the inaugural director of the National Engineering Research Centre for Application Specific Integrated Circuit Systems, the first National Engineering Centre established in Hong Kong. Prior to joining ASTRI, Dr. Cheung has held different research and senior management positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Bellcore, and Telcordia Technologies. He is a Telcordia Fellow and a Fellow of IEEE. Dr. Cheung served as the 18th President of the IEEE Communications Society, a global professional organization with 45,000 members in 180 chapters around the world. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Magazine, and was appointed Chairman of the IEEE Fellow Committee in 2012-13, where he presided over the selection of all new IEEE Fellows worldwide.

Dr. Cheung is an Honorary Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and has served as Consulting Professor at Stanford University. He received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Hong Kong, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology.