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Gene T. Kim
Chief Executive Officer & President
Mr. Kim began
his career as a trader of sophisticated financial derivatives for
JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch. At Merrill, he became the youngest
Vice President and led the USD fixed-income swap desk to a series
of #1 rankings by both institutional clients and competing
investment banks. Mr. Kim later joined the hedge fund Tiger
Management, then the largest in the world, to manage all trading in
Asia. He left Tiger in 1999 to found Bamboo, and has been the
driving force and vision behind the company since then. Mr. Kim
double majored in Finance and Decision Sciences at the Wharton
School of Business at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Peter Williams
Director Global Sales and Marketing
Peter Williams,
an established name in the asian IT indistry brings over 25 years
of industry experience to the Bamboo Management Team. He has
extensive experience in establishing successful Consulting,
Professional Services and Solution Development businesses within
the region. With stints in Datacraft Asia establishing the
Solutions Development Group, or with World Bank projects developing
legal frameworks he has a wide and varied range of skills and
knowledge. You will find him just as much at home coding a content
management platform, advising Banking Clients or running a Sales
Organisation. In Bamboo, this multidisciplinary capability is one
of the hallmarks of our business.
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Rajesh Rao
Chief Operating Officer
With over ten
years in the IT industry, Mr. Rao has extensive experience in large
scale IT strategy as well as managing all aspects of the software
development lifecycle from conception through deployment and
maintenance. Mr. Rao has extensive experience in architecting and
designing complex solutions for the banking and chemical
industries. He is an expert in software development methodologies
and CMM practices. He was one of the first employees of India's
Infosys Technologies, Ltd., where he served in a number of senior
management capacities for five years, including leading the
professional services group of their banking technology division.
Prior to joining Bamboo, Mr. Rao was Technology Network Lead at
Razorfish, both managing the technology team and focusing on
business development activities.
Masato Kitano
Country Manager, Japan
Mr. Kitano has
nearly twenty years experience in the technology field. He joined
NEC Corporation in 1984 and spent seven years as a sales consultant
for communications systems in the Tokyo market. While at NEC, he
also developed a human resources development system and planned and
implemented an employee education program. In 1996, Mr. Kitano
established Rich Pictures KK, a NEC intra-venture business and
technology consultancy, and managed the firm until its merger with
Bamboo in July 2002. Mr. Kitano now leads Bamboo's Japan office,
overseeing all solutions development, operations and sales efforts.
Mr. Kitano holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering
from Fukui University, Japan.
George Chan
Managing Director, Guangzhou
Mr. Chan has
over sixteen years of experience in the IT field including eight
years in IT management. Prior to joining Bamboo he was the I.T.
Senior Manager of Mead Johnson China, where he was responsible for
the development and implementation of all the company's
IT-concerned projects in China and ensured the completion,
accuracy, reliability and customer satisfaction of all projects. At
Mead Johnson, he also developed and managed the I.T department's
strategic plan, objectives and annual budget. He has profound &
diversified project management experience in multi-national
companies. Mr. Chan now leads Bamboo's Guangzhou office, overseeing
all areas of operations and sales.