Management Team
Yang Cai
Founder, President
Dr. Yang Cai is a startup veteran with a passion for developing leading edge technologies. He is an expert in algorithm design and optimization and with a reputation for delivering “best in class” products. Prior to co-founding VisualOn, he was the Senior VP - Engineering of MedioStream and pioneered real-time high quality software MPEG-2 encoding with performance twice as fast as it’s closest competitors, according to an independent study by the PC World Magazine. Prior to MedioStream, he was a founding technical member of two EDA startup companies. He has considerable first-hand experiences in product management, general corporate management, financial planning, and sales and marketing. Dr. Cai has more than 20 technical publications and holds multiple US patents. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, his MS degree from the University of Kansas and his BS degree from Peking University, China. |
Bill Lin
Founder, Vice President of Engineering
Dr. C.Y. Bill Lin is a co-founder of VisualOn, and an expert in video/audio codec optimization and consumer multimedia software. He has extensive experience in building and managing development teams in both US and China. Prior to co-founding VisualOn, he led MedioStream’s entire US development team and was responsible for the MPEG and Digital Video codec development. His expertise in software and algorithm optimization has made a significant contribution to enhance the codec performance. Dr. Lin also has extensive working experience in the development of optimization algorithms including work with Tera Systems, Southern Company, Auburn University and Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. degree from School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, a master's degree from National Cheng Kung University, and a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University.
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Sean Torsney
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Sean Torsney is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for VisualOn. Mr. Torsney has over 21 years of diverse business experience including software sales, operations, applications, and engineering. Mr. Torsney brings a proven track record of building a successful team from the ground up and driving a product to a strong market share presence despite the presence of strong entrenched competition.
Prior to joining VisualOn from 1999 to 2006 Mr. Torsney was Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Verplex Systems, an EDA startup company that was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2003. At Verplex Systems Mr. Torsney was responsible for building a world wide sales and marketing organization from scratch. During his tenure at Verplex and Cadence he built and grew the organization to over 50 people world wide while growing revenue and achieving 70% market share.His responsibilities included coordination of sales and marketing activities including overall responsibility for negotiating and managing global accounts such as Intel, Texas Instruments, Fujitsu, Toshiba, ST, Motorola, Freescale and Philips.
Prior to joining Verplex Systems in 1999 Mr. Torsney held various Sales and Application Engineering for Mentor Graphics from 1992 to 1999. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics Mr. Torsney worked for TRW as a design engineer. Mr. Torsney received his degree from the University of San Diego.
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Bangfei Jin
Director of Engineering, Shanghai VisualOn Software Co., Ltd.
Bangfei has more than 10 years of industrial experience and a proven track record of developing and supporting robust consumer multimedia software applications used by millions of users. Prior to joining VisualOn, Bangfei was Senior Manager of Sonic Software (Shanghai) Ltd., leading Sonic Solution’s Shanghai software development team. Before that, he was Senior Manager of MedioStream Software (Shanghai) Ltd., in charge of its Shanghai engineering department. He was the chief architect of MedioStream’s neoDVD series of products. Bangfei received his bachelor’s degree from East China Industry University in Machinery Design. |
Wen Chen
Technical Advisor
Dr. Chen is a pioneer in the field of digital image coding and has received numerous image coding achievement awards. His accomplishments include the invention of several ground breaking algorithms, such as the Slant Transform for image coding, the fast computational algorithm and convolution theorem for the Discrete Cosine Transform, the Combined Symbol Matching for facsimile coding, and the Scene Adaptive Coding for video coding. Dr. Wen Chen is a Fellow of Cisco Systems, Inc. providing leadership in Video Technology. Prior to joining Cisco, Dr. Chen was Board Director and Chief Technology Officer of Komodo Technology, Inc. (acquired by Cisco in 2000). Prior to joining Komodo, he was Founder, Chairman of the Board and President of V-Bits, Inc. (acquired by Cisco in 1999). Prior to founding V-Bits, he was Founder and Executive Vice President of Compression Labs, Inc. where he pioneered the development of video conferencing products. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has numerous publications, patents and awards.
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