The Board

Dr. George Fan, Chairman

Dr. Fan is a co-founder and Chairman of FASTXchange. He began his career at IBM Research where he advanced to senior R&D and senior management positions, including Director of Planning for IBM’s worldwide research organization, Director of Microsystems (where one of his teams, led by John Cocke, developed Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) architecture which is used by virtually all microprocessors today. Dr. Fan was later the executive liaison overseeing the integration of Rolm Corporation after the acquisition by IBM. He left IBM to become the founding Dean of Engineering at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. Dr. Fan was on the advisory committee of the Singapore Science Council and other prestigious institutions. He received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from New York University. He has written over 30 technical publications and holds 15 patents.

Dr. Herbert Schorr

Dr. Schorr was the Executive Director of Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California and concurrently a Senior Associate Dean of Engineering and a research professor in the USC Astronautics and Space Technology Division and Computer Science Department as well as co-head of USC’s High Performance Computing Center. FASTXchange’s original technology platform was developed at ISI under a DARPA-funded program. Prior to joining ISI, Dr. Schorr held positions of increasing responsibility at IBM, starting as a Research Staff Member and rising to Group Director, Advanced Systems, Information Storage and Systems Group where he was responsible for the introduction of new, advanced technologies. He graduated from City University of New York then received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Cambridge University.

Jack Tsui

Mr. Tsui began his career in the U.S. Army after graduating from Penn State University. He then transitioned to banking where he quickly rose through the ranks to hold senior executive positions at Citibank in New York then Bank of Hawaii in Honolulu. He then joined First Hawaiian Bank as President and Chief Operating Officer. After a merger with Bank of the West, Tsui became Vice Chairman and Chief Credit Officer of BankWest Corporation. Tsui is non-executive chairman of Zilber, Ltd., in Milwaukee, a builder of single-family and multi-family homes. He has been an active supporter and trustee of many charitable organizations, especially in education, where he and his wife have endowed scholarships and led major funding campaigns, including as the 1st statewide Chair of Aloha United Way.

Lance Stuart

Mr. Stuart is the Chief Executive Officer of FASTXchange. He began his career at IBM in finance then joined McKinsey & Company as a management consultant based in New York then Tokyo. He left to start Sundai Advanced Teaching Technology (SATT) which grew under his leadership to become Asia’s largest educational software company. He has been a founder and CEO of several successful ventures in the U.S., Japan and Hong Kong. Most recently, he was a Senior Partner of Vici Partners, a boutique consulting firm, where he opened the New York and Tokyo offices and led the Japanese practice. He is a Council Member of the U.S.-Japan Council and board member of both the Harvard Business School Club of New York and Harvard Business School Association of Orange County (California). Mr. Stuart was raised principally in Asia where his father served for 23 years in the USAF (Lt. Col) before joining CIA-owned Air America as a pilot flying in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand for over 10 years. He attended elementary and high school at St. Mary’s International School in Tokyo then received a BS from Boston College and MBA from Harvard Business School.