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Peter Yip

Mr. Yip is a co-founder and CEO of chinadotcom corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA), which develops a comprehensive, pan-Asian, integrated Internet business.

Mr. Yip has more than two decades of entrepreneurial experience in media & telecommunications industry. Prior to chinadotcom, he successfully started a network integration company, guided it from scratch to major success and subsequently sold the company to SHL Systemhouse, a company since acquired by MCI Worldcom. He previously was a senior management consultant at KPMG Consulting and Senior Research Fellow at Wharton Applied Research.

Mr. Yip is a founding member of the China Internet Research Foundation, a non-profit organisation whose objectives are to advancing Internet development in the Greater China region in partnership with Government agencies and business community. China Internet Research Foundation is in exclusive partnership with Tokyo based Nihon Net Research Foundation of which the founding members include Tokyu Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation and Itochu Corporation, etc.

He is a frequent speaker at various international conferences, including the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business School’s Asian Conference, Fortune CEO Forum, Businessweek CIO Forum, M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, U.S./Japan Symposium on Corporate Partnership, United Nations Conference on Science & Technology, Harvard University’s Conference on Internet & Society, Nikkei International Conference on The Future of Asia and Beijing International Conference on Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development. Mr. Yip is often quoted by major media publications, including Business Week, Fortune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN and Bloomberg amongst others.

Mr. Yip is also a co-founder and vice-chairman of hongkong.com Corporation (www.hongkong.com; stock code: 8006), a public listed company trading in The Hong Kong Stock Exchange Growth Enterprises Market.

He also serves on the boards of 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM), Softbank Investment International (Strategic) Limited (Stock Exchange Hong Kong stock code: 0648), e2Capital (Holdings) Limited, Taiwan.com Corporation, and several joint ventures established under the auspices of the Chinese government.

Mr. Yip received his M.B.A. from The Wharton School and his Master and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

Peter Yip

Keynote Speaker
Wharton Asian Business Conference
November 18, 2000

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