(Jeremy) Xiaoming Yin, PhD
President, Hoku CorporationDr. Yin has served as the Company's President since February 2011. Dr. Yin has served since 2007 as founder and managing director of SinoTransPacific Ventures, a private equity firm headquartered in Los Angeles. Among other equity financing and M&A activity, SinoTransPacific Ventures was involved in business advisory services to Tianwei New Energy in the original polysilicon transactions between Hoku Materials and Tianwei New Energy, and during its subsequent equity investment in Hoku. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Yin was a founding member and Vice President at LightCross, Inc., a California-based manufacturer of semiconductor optical networking and switching components which was merged with Arroyo Optics in 2005 to form Kotura, Inc. Subsequent to the acquisition of LightCross, Dr. Yin served in a variety of executive roles at Kotura. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Yin served as program manager and technical staff at the IBM, Siemens, Toshiba Development Alliance in East Fishkill, NY where he had responsibilities in developing industry best practices for advanced semiconductor product development, production ramp up, product roadmap planning, capital equipment selection, and technology transfer.
Dr. Yin holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, a master's degree in business administration from UCLA Anderson School of Management, and a doctoral degree in semiconductor physics from the City University of New York