Casey Chan, Chief Executive Officer
Casey Chan has served as a corporate advisor of Adnet International since August 2005 and subsequently became the Chief Executive Officer of China Adnet Enterprises, Inc. on Jan 10, 2006. Mr. Chan has contributed significantly to the development of our strategic corporate long term plan and corporate financing process.
Mr. Chan has held several years of senior management positions in the area of Information Technologies from 1984 to 1992. Since 1992, Mr. Chan left the computing profession to become actively involved with venture capital activities and has been instrumental in the financing of private and public companies. Over the years he had held several key positions with Canadian publicly listed companies, including having served as the chairman and CEO of these companies. Mr. Chan has been actively involved with China-based joint ventures since 1996.
Mr. Chan graduated as a commissioned officer specializing in defense electronics/ communications from the Singapore Military Institute in 1978 prior to receiving a BSc (Computer Science) from the University of Calgary and a Management Diploma from London, UK. He has also undertaken postgraduate studies in Environmental Mgmt with the Imperial College of Science & Technology of the University of London in 2002.
Fred Cheng, Chief Financial Officer
Fred Cheng is a co-founder of Adnet International Limited and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors as well as our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since inception. Mr. Cheng relinquished his position as Chief Executive Officer on Nov 17, 2005 to focus on his primary role as our Chief Financial Officer.
Mr. Cheng has had over 15 years of senior level accountancy, capital finance and treasury experiences with major international CPA firms operating out of Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, such as KPMG Peat Marwick (HK ), Nelson Wheeler (HK) and Alexander & Alexander CPA (NZ). He is currently a partner of Lawrence DFK CPA (HK).
Mr. Cheng received a bachelor¡¯s degree in business studies from York University in 1982 and an MBA from the University of New England (Australia) in 1986. He is a chartered member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, New Zealand, England and Wales as well as a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Peter Yan, Chief Technology OfficerPeter Yan has served as Chief Technology Officer of Adnet International Limited since inception. Prior to joining Adnet, Mr. Yan has had nearly 15 years of hi-tech/electronics experience, including 8 years of IT related products support services.
Mr. Yan received an electronic engineering degree from the Canton Electronic Engineer College (China) in 1988 and a Diploma in Computer System Technology from the Centennial College of Applied Technology (Canada) in 1997.
Howard Shern, Director/ VP - Strategic Marketing
Howard Shern is a co-founder and a member of the board of directors of Adnet International Limited. Mr. Shern has served as our Vice President of Strategic Market Development since inception. He has contributed tremendously to the creation, setup, design and implementation of our first year corporate goals since inception, in particular the launching of www.2adnet.com and http://opp.2adnet.com. From the year 1988 to 2002, Mr. Shern had held several senior engineering/project management positions with Dehavilland Inc. (Bombardier Aerospace) and was named the ¡®employee of the year¡¯ in 1992. Mr. Shern left Dehavilland Inc. in 2002 to pursue his own business interests and since 2003, has been involved in developing market penetration strategies for e-commerce businesses.
Mr. Shern received a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Ryerson Polytechnic University in 1985 and a Diploma in Chemical Technology from the Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1980.
Susanna Leung, Director/ VP ¨C Corporate
Susanna Leung is a co-founder and a member of the board of directors of Adnet International Limited. Ms Leung has also serves as a Vice President of Corporate Affairs and has been instrumental in raising the initial capital of US$500,000 since inception.
Prior to founding our company, Ms. Leung had held several managerial positions in the financial sector in Canada and Hong Kong since 1983 with institutions such as Sunlife Insurance, CIBC, TD Canada Trust and Trillion Financial Group.
Vittorino Dal Cengio (Victor), Board Advisor
Victor Cengio is a co-founder of Adnet International Limited and has serves an advisor to the board of directors since inception. Mr. Cengio grew up in Italy and came to Canada in 1977 after serving in the elite Alpine Corps in the Italian army.
While in Italy he worked as a tutor and wrote of books about climbing in the Dolomites that attracted the attention and the favorable critique of some major newspapers¡¯ literary reviewers.
In Canada, he contributed articles to ethnic magazines and newspapers while publishing reviews concerning the Alpine Veteran Association, of which he is Vancouver chapter¡¯s president (over 360,000 members worldwide). He is also past director at the Italian Cultural Centre Society.
After obtaining a degree in French, History and Political Science at Simon Fraser University he was editor in chief and publisher of an international teenager magazine.
Tony Yee, Board Advisor
Tony Yee is a co-founder of Adnet International Limited and has serves as an advisor to the board of directors since inception. Mr. Yee is a veteran magazine publisher. He was CEO of Jinyu Advertising and Publishing Company. His participation in edits and publishes includes British Columbia Business News, Renter¡¯s Guide, City Weekly (Chinese), City Real Estate (Chinese) and TV Guide (Chinese). He has more than two decades of experience in advertising and publishing.