CEO Video Interview Series

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CEO Video Webcast with Bitfone Founder & CEO Gene Wang

About Gene Wang

Gene Wang leads the marketing and business development organization for the Handheld Business Unit with the Personal Systems Group at HP, where he is responsible for taking mobile innovation across the world – from mobile devices, to software, to services.

Wang has successfully led three high-technology companies as chief executive officer, including Bitfone Corp., which HP acquired in 2007. Bitfone Corporation provided software solutions for the wireless market to enable customer care automation and mobile device management. Bitfone's SmartCare, mProve and MVP products improved usability of mobile devices by diagnosing and repairing software problems and delivering software updates and configuration settings over the air.

Before Bitfone, Wang was chief executive officer and chairman of Photo Access, where he sold its hardware business unit to Agilent Technologies in 2000. Wang also was the chief executive officer of Computer Motion, which he led through a successful initial public offering in 1997.  

At Symantec, Wang was executive vice president where he managed four divisions and helped grow the annual sales from $172 million to $412 million. Wang was vice president and general manager at Borland, where he drove sales of the C++ programming language to more than 1 million copies.

Wang is the founder and original chairman of the board of directors for the Over-The-Air Flash Forum and remains active in this wireless industry special interest group that defines and promotes over-the-air mobile phone technologies.  

Wang earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

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