Shoa-Kai joined the Rustic Canyon team with 25 years of diverse technical and management experience in telecommunications networks and services, data and optical networking, and semiconductors. Most recently, Shoa-Kai served as the Director of Network Technology Development at MCI, where he and his team evaluated emerging telecommunication technology. After he joined MCI in 1982, he spent 22 years focused on networking technology development and deployment for networks that today provide the backbone of the Internet. He played a central role in MCI's strategic network planning, large system integration, services and products rollout on a global scale. Shoa-Kai is also a proven entrepreneur. From 1998 to 1999, he was the co-founder and Vice President of Market Development at Avanex, where he helped the company grew into one of the largest optical component suppliers worldwide. Prior to MCI, his experiences also included working in various government projects such as the OTH Radar System, the SDI, the NASA Space Telescope ground data network system and the USAF Consolidated Space Operation Center Communication System Modernization, while he worked at SAI, Inc., CSC and the Aerospace Corporation. Shoa-Kai facilitates and supports Rustic Canyon’s portfolio activities in the AsiaPac markets, including product launches and establishing operations in China. Shoa-Kai brings great depth of experience in Chinese culture and network across telecommunications, consumer electronics, and consumer Internet. Shoa-Kai graduated from Northern Illinois University with an M.S.C.S., earned an M.S.E.E., majored in Communication at George Washington University, and earned an M.B.A. with an International Management track from the University of Dallas. He served as the MCI Fellow of the Technology Leadership Council from 1993 to 1995 and has chaired various industry conference committees and been a frequent speaker at OFC, Supercom, WOCC, SATEC, APOC, and METS conferences. Shoa-Kai is active with the Chinese Institute of Engineers Association and Photonic Society of Chinese-Americans. He has been awarded four patents.