"A" Players to C-Suite

Dr. Charles Fan and Dr. Elizabeth Xu will share their career path to become CTOs at Major technology companies and CEO of Startups:

1. Background introduction
2. Career challenges
3. How to stay current with technology
4. Technologists to Business Leader career transformation
5. Q&A, Breakout sessions with Dr. Charles Fan and Dr. Elizabeth Xu

Dr. Charles Fan's bio

Charles Fan is co-founder and CEO of MemVerge. Prior to MemVerge, Charles was the CTO of Cheetah Mobile leading its global technology teams, and an SVP/GM at VMware, founding the storage business unit that developed the Virtual SAN product. Charles also worked at EMC and was the founder of the EMC China R&D Center. Charles joined EMC via the acquisition of Rainfinity, where he was a co-founder and CTO.

Charles received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union.

Dr. Elizabeth Xu's bio:

Elizabeth is a public company board member and the CEO of A2C Academy. She has served as two CTO positions of billion-dollar revenue companies: CP Group and BMC Software. She became a C-level executive in 2005 at a public company. She provides coaching in Leadership, Digital Transformation, AI, and cloud.

Dr. Elizabeth Xu has taught at Stanford University for 6 years about leadership, and currently is a guest lecturer at Stanford University Teaching Digital Transformation at the Department of Engineering Management Science.

Elizabeth earned a Ph.D. and two Master’s Degrees. She is a Harvard certified board member and attended the Stanford Executive Program.

Elizabeth received the WITI Hall of Fame Award in 2017 and Women of Influence in Silicon Valley in 2013. She also received 10+ other prestigious awards. She is a trailblazer, leading a bright path to the top.

Elizabeth lives by the credo of the four “L”s

1. Live to my fullest potential.
2. Love the people around me and enable them to reach their fullest potential.
3. Learn continuously.
4. Leave a legacy.