Team

Vincent is an advocate of the mobile internet end-to-end hardware and software ecosystem. 

• Corporate: Motorola Mobile Device Program Management, Quality & Service

• Linux Mobile Internet Startup: E28 COO

• Startup Exit: Acquisition of E28

• Creation of Chipset & Device Fully Integrated Ecosystem in Alibaba YunOS

• CXO Product Execution Service: Waterway

• Professor of Mobile ODM

• Godfather of Mobile ODM

Francis is a co-founder of Waterway Asia and a freelance consultant, investor, and entrepreneur in the tech industry. Recently Francis is very active in the China angel investment and startup community. 

• Worked and lived in Beijing, China, since 2000. 

• Worked from 1994 to 2010 he has been working in Motorola, and from 2010 to 2012, in Acer China. Served in various corporate leaderships roles: R&D engineering, Business, Marketing etc. He ran a BU in Motorola globally which is successfully built mobile content services with 18 carrier/customers across the global – pioneered the development of mobile internet in China, and developed it beyond China.

• From 2012 to 2015 Francis worked as one of the founding staff in Jolla, an Finland-based startup that was spin-off from Nokia with the Meego mobile operation system. He has helped Jolla to enter the China and HK market, delivered their first phone to the marketing, and has been very active in the mobile internet ecosystem industry with led to projects with Chinese internet giants like Alibaba. Francis also helped to raise seed and pre-series A fund for Jolla.

• Most recently Francis worked as Asia Managing Director for Wearable IOT World, a San Francisco based startup accelerator, which established their presence in Hong Kong in 2016.