Board of Directors
Management Directors
Fang Wu, President & Founder
Fang Wu is founder, President, and Director of Azalea Networks. Fang has more than 19 years of engineering & management experience and has filed more than 30 patents.
Fang began his career designing and implementing DSP real-time Operating Systems. Following that, he worked at Compression Labs as a key engineer working on the world’s first MPEG-2 digital video encoder for DirecTV. Later, Fang started V-Bits (video compression company) as co-founder and VP of Engineering. In 1999 V-Bits was acquired by Cisco for $128 million. Following the acquisition, Fang worked at Cisco as senior manager for ISO-certified products and successfully shipped $20M V-Bits products before co-founding Azalea. Fang received a BSEE from Tsinghua University and an MSEE from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Felix Zhao, Founder & CTO
Felix (Fuyong) Zhao is a cofounder, CTO and Director of Azalea Networks. Felix has more than fifteen years of experience in the wireless and networking industry. He is responsible for the design and development of Azalea’s core intellectual property and currently leads a core engineering team in the company's advanced research & development efforts.
Prior to co-founding Azalea, Felix worked as senior researcher at Cisco Systems where he co-designed and developed award-winning products such as cable routers, mobile routers and residential gateways. While at Cisco, he oversaw the wireless sensor networking initiative and represented Cisco in ZigBee matters. Felix has also worked as Engineering Manager and Consulting Engineer at Cable & Wireless IDC where he played a key role in designing telecommunication network solutions for many major enterprise customers. Felix received BS degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Physics from Tsinghua University, and has seven US patents pending on IP routing, QoS, Radio Architecture, and Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc networking.
Independent Directors
Frank Marshall, Former Chairman, NetScreenFrank Marshall is a private investor of Azalea Networks and former Chairman of Netscreen, a co-founder of Convex Computer, former Cisco VP of engineering, and former board member and acting-CEO of Covad.
Chun Chiu, Former CEO, Quality SemiconductorChun Chiu is a private investor of Azalea Networks and former co-founder and CEO of Quality Semiconductor Corporation and co-founder of Integrated Device Technology (IDT).
Samuel Chen, Chairman, RaysonSamuel Chen is a private investor of Azalea Networks and current chairman of Rayson Technology Co. (Taiwan).
Hans Dai, Chief Investment Officer, Sunplus Venture Capital
Hans Dai brings 16 years of venture capital investment experience to the board of Azalea Networks.