- Chairman
- Peter Liu
- Office of the Chairman
- Dr. Francis Chen
- Jimmy Lu
- Managing Directors
- YK Chu
- David Lam
- Sean Peng
- Cynthia Qiu
- Dr. David Wang
- Partners
- Paul Chau
- Wayne Shiong
- Lucas Wang
- Investment Professionals
- Ellen Gao
- Ping Wei
- Winnie Hsu
- Daoping Wang
- Derrick Hsiang
- Chris Yu
- Daniel Zhou
- Venture Partners
- Dr. Ahmad Bahai
- Eric Chen
- Charles Jiggs Davis
- Joseph J. Fan
- Dr. Jackson Hu
- Dr. James Lee
- Dr. Kang Sun
- Zirui Tian
Jimmy Lu, Executive Managing Director & COO
Jimmy Lu is the Executive Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of WI Harper Group. Jimmy oversees WI Harper’s global operations and brings to the firm over 20 years of high technology and venture capital experience. Prior to joining WI Harper, Jimmy co-founded and most recently served as General Partner of iD Ventures America (formerly Acer Technology Ventures), which manages several venture funds, including Acer Technology Venture Fund and IP Fund One. The funds were early investors in such companies as iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT), Harmonix Music (creators of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises, acquired by MTV/Viacom; NYSE: VIA), ArtX Inc. (acquired by ATI Technologies; NYSE: AMD), Allayer Communications (acquired by Broadcom; NASDAQ: BRCM), Monolithic Power Systems (NASDAQ: MPWR) and Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT).
Jimmy joined the Acer Group, a leading worldwide technology company, in 1992, and as General Counsel worked closely with senior management to structure the Acer Group’s international joint ventures, strategic alliances, acquisitions, global financings and commercial transactions. He assisted in establishing Acer’s first international venture capital fund, Fund 21 Limited. Prior to joining Acer, he was an attorney with Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco, specializing in M&A and venture transactions, debt and equity financings and public securities work. He was also a banker at JP Morgan in New York City covering Fortune 500 clients in the Pacific Northwest. Jimmy was first introduced to entrepreneurship and venture capital as the director of an outreach program sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank where he trained high school students from underserved communities in the Greater Boston Area to operate their own small business.
Jimmy earned a B.A. from Yale College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He received his law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He is the Vice-Chair of the Association of Yale Alumni and an Associate Fellow of Trumbull College. He is also a member of the West Coast Advisory Board, University of Florida College of Engineering, and the boards of the Berkeley Chinese Alumni International Association and Yale Alumni Publications.
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