Tony C. Luh, Founding Managing Partner, DFJ DragonFund China

Born in Japan, grew up in Thailand, and possesses profound knowledge in the Chinese language and culture, Tony spent his professional career in the U. S. and Asia.  Tony has over 18 years of experience in capital markets, sales, strategic alliances and new business development.  Tony is a Founding Managing Director of DFJ DragonFund.  Tony started his career early in the public equities market in Taiwan.  As corporate fund manager for Kosheng Enterprises in the mid to late 80’s, he helped return the fund more than sevenfold while accumulating knowledge and expertise in sectors ranging from information technology to high volume manufacturing in Asia.  Then in the early 90’s, Tony, an avid baseball fan, became the first ever Major League Baseball TV simulcast Mandarin announcer for the Oakland A's.  That was his part-time fun as he helped grow ad revenues for KCNS, an ethnic TV station in San Francisco, a whopping 800% in four years.  Subsequent to that, Tony joined an early-stage first-generation Chinese Internet company – Infowave Communications as a senior executive in charge of business development and strategic alliance.  In that capacity, he struck strategic alliance and marketing deals with, among others, Yahoo!, Microsoft, TeleBank (now E*Trade), and E-Loan.  Later, Tony co-founded DragonVenture with Bobby Chao in 1999.  As Managing Director for DragonVenture, he helped oversee the early investments in OSA Technologies (AVCT) and Mobile365 (SY).  Tony attended three different high schools in three different countries.  Tony also attended three different universities in three different states (Washington, Texas, California) in the U. S.