中華資訊網路協會 Chinese Information & Networking Association

4675 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 101, Santa Clara, CA 95051

http://www.cina.org

Conference Chair: Jim Sha
 

Jim Sha
Managing Partner, Lodestone Ventures

Mr. Sha is a managing partner of Lodestone Ventures. Since November 1998, Sha has been a Managing partner at Spring Creek Venture.  The partnership specializes in early stage venture investment and business consultation with Internet and Infrastructure companies.  These investments are usually made with leading US Venture Capital firms such as Mayfield, Draper Fisher, Juvertson, Savin Rosen, Goldman Sachs, Intel, etc. Sha is currently serving on the board of directors of several start-up companies.  His board memberships include Appstream, Digital Archway, E21, LiveABC, Optoplex, Tom.com.

From February 1999 till September 1999, Sha served as the CEO for Sina.com, a Global Chinese Internet portal company.

Before joining the venture group, Mr. Sha was Senior Vice President, Commerce Solutions, at Netscape Communications.  While at Netscape, he served concurrently as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Actra Business Systems, a joint venture formed by Netscape and GE Information Services, that developed high-end Internet business-to-business e-commerce applications.   Sha built Actra from scratch, and brought it to a successful point of conclusion when Netscape acquired Actra in December 1997.

Prior to Actra, Mr. Sha served as Vice President and General Manager of business-to-consumer integrated application business at Netscape Communications from August 1994 to April 1996.  Before joining Netscape, Sha was Vice President of the UNIX Product Division at Oracle Corporation from June 1990 to August 1994.  He helped drive Oracle business on open systems platforms.  During his tenure UNIX business rose from 29% to over 70% of Oracle’s total revenue.  He led the effort to adapt Oracle’s parallel technology to UNIX clusters and later to the UNIX massively parallel processing platforms (MPP).

From June 1986 to June 1990 Sha served as Vice President and General Manager of the Advanced Systems Division of Wyse Technology, where he led the development, marketing and sales of a family of high-end symmetrical multi-processor (SMP) UNIX systems.  The high-end 7000 series won the 1990 UnixWorld magazine product of the year award.

Mr. Sha holds MS in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley, MBA from Santa Clara University, and BS in EE from Taiwan University.