We are excited to have Ming LEI to give us a seminar on Oct. 30th, 2004. The first part of the seminar will be an overview of the high tech opportunity in China, especially in Internet and wireless. The second part will be a case study about Baidu and the search engine market in China. This event is co-sponsored by Peking University Alumni Association of Northern California (PKUAANC) and Tsinghua Alumni Association of Northern California (THAA-NC). Featured speaker: Ming LEI (MBA candidate at Stanford University, Former Chief Architect of Baidu) Time: 1:30PM - 4PM, 10/30/2004, Saturday Location: Milpitas Library 40 North Milpitas Boulevard, Milpitas CA 95035-4495 Direction: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&countryid=250&addtohistory=&address=40+n+milpitas+blvd&city=&state=&zipcode=95035&historyid=&submit=Get+Map Mr. Ming LEI's Bio: Mr. Lei is currently a MBA student at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and he just spent a summer at Ignition, a VC firm in Seattle. He also serves as VP at Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford. Prior to Stanford, Ming was an executive for over 3 years at Baidu, the largest Chinese search engine in the world. As the chief architect and director of technology, Ming led the engineering team to develop the best Chinese search engine, which ranked top 10 global portals by Alexa and accounted for about 50% online Chinese search market (Google China: 30%). As the assistant to CEO and director of product marketing, he coordinated departments to revise the strategy of search advertising, contributing to 10 times customer growth in one year and leading Baidu to attain profitability. Ming holds M.S. and B.S. with honor in Computer Science from Peking University. Admission: Free. Contact: Ms. Si SHEN atSeats are limited. Please RSVP PKUAANC