I and I Asia is happy to announce its fall cocktail mixer scheduled to take place at the Block House located at Van Palace, No. 2 South Street, Guang Dong Dian, Guang Hua Road.

The Block House has graciously agreed to provide a free BBQ grill, cold appetizers, sweets and desserts as well as 24 bottles of Signos Syrah, and twelve bottles of Signos Chardonay, . A cash bar will also be available.

Lucky draw cash voucher prizes for the Block House will also be given away during the evening.

Please come to the Block House to meet your fellow I and I members.

DETAILS:
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Date: Thursday, October 26, 2006
Time: 6:30pm until 9:00pm
Venue: Block House located at Van Palace, No. 2 South Street, Guang ong Dian, Guang Hua Road. (call 6561-6155)
Admission fee: Tickets at the door will be available for 50 RMB
RSVP: iandirsvp@hotmail.com
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- The I and I Beijing Team

I and I will be holding a panel discussion on Tuesday, July 25 entitled “What it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur in China”.  Our panel will be comprised of experienced entrepreneurs who have not only built successful companies, but have also managed to secure significant overseas investment.  We are privileged to have with us Forrest Zhang, CEO of Tixa, Justin Mallen, CEO of SRT, and Fritz Demopolis, CEO of qunar.com.  Their bios are listed at the bottom of this email.

In addition, we are happy to have Kaiser Kuo to moderate the forum.  For those few people that have not heard of him, Kaiser is currently the China Bureau Chief for Red Herring, a China rock icon (former lead guitarist for Tang Dynasty, and current guitarist for Dirty Deeds) and a fixture on the blogging scene. 

Finally, this go round we have teamed up with Amcham to co-run this event. There will be lots of cheap eats and plenty of beer, all for the low low price of 50RMB.  You heard it here first.

Please be sure to RSVP, as space is limited.

DETAILS: 
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Date: Tuesday, July 25
Time: 18:30 - 21:00 
Venue: Beijing Marriott Hotel West, 98 XiSanhuan North Road,• Beijing, 100037 China, Phone:  86 10 6872-6699 (Map attached)
北京金域万豪酒店, 酒店位于北京市海淀区 西三环北路98号,（航天桥东北角）,电话：（010）6872-6699
Admission fee: 50RMB, includes beer and snacks, extra fee for mixed drinks
RSVP: bj@iandiasia.com 
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- The I and I Beijing Team

Panelist Bios

Justin Mallen, CEO Silk Road Telecommunication

Justin has been a successful entrepreneur on the world’s economic frontier for over a decade.  He first came to China in the early 1990s to start a textile-based export firm, and has since made the transition to the IT sector. In 1999, Justin established SRT as a telecom network services provider focusing on network infrastructure and security, outsourcing of IT support services, telecom software development and aggregation of value added content. SRT currently is one of the largest independent Internet Data Centers in Eastern China and works closely with the government to provide telecom and IT support services for the Chinese National Software Base in Zhejiang.

Over the last two years, SRT has expanded to include the development of telecom software and operation of voice value added telecom services. SRT’s software team has developed several voice content based platform solutions that are currently being released through China Mobile in nearly a dozen of China’s provinces, including the three largest mobile markets of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Guangdong. SRT’s voice value added services have created a vibrant alternative to the successful SMS market in China.  SRT’s ever-expanding customer base includes such companies as Cable and Wireless, China Mobile, Microsoft, Yahoo!, UT Starcom, Dell, H-P, General Motors, Motorola, Sharp, Zhejiang Public Security Bureau and many other SMEs, domestic and multinational alike.

Justin has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, South China Morning Post and numerous publications within China. He is also a frequent speaker at numerous IT industry conferences and has been invited to be a visiting professor at both Stanford and Berkeley business schools.  Justin graduated with honors in Chinese History from Bowdoin College. He grew up in San Francisco, and always knew that he wanted to work in international business. Justin has greatly appreciated the opportunities he has found working in the world’s fastest growing country.

Fritz Demopoulos has been involved in the Chinese media, internet and wireless industries for over eight years.  He is currently a cofounder and CEO of Qunar.com.  Qunar.com is China’s first travel search engine and the third largest travel site in China.  In addition to these current entrepreneurial business activities, Fritz has been an advisor to an array of well-known Chinese and international media and internet companies.  Previously, Fritz was also SVP of Business Development at Netease.com.  Prior to Netease, in 1999 Fritz cofounded and became CEO of internet sports portal Shawei.com.  Financially backed by Intel Capital, Softbank and IDG, Shawei grew to become China’s largest sports web site and was subsequently acquired by Tom.com in 2000.  Fritz began his career in China in 1997 as Business Development Manager for The News Corporation Limited. Fritz was educated at UCLA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Karls-Ruprecht University and Cal State Fullerton.

Forrest X.N. Zhang, Chairman & CEO, Tixa Tech Group

Forrest Xiangning Zhang is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Tixa Tech Group. He founded the company in late 2000 and created the Narrow-Casting and NarrowAD business model that leverage the Internet power on personalization. The company absorbed investment from Mitsui Sumitomo Ventures, JAIC and MIH etc.

Prior to starting Tixa, he was the Chairman and CEO of HiChina Web Solutions Inc (WWW.NET.CN & WWW.COM.CN), which he co-founded in 1996. Under his stewardship, Net.cn grew into the biggest corporate ISP and leading B2B Internet service provider in China, and attracted investments from IDG and Newbridge Capital. In 2000 Forrest resigned from HiChina to start Tixa (previously called VeryE) while remaining as the vice Chairman.

Forrest quit his university, the Beijing Normal University, on year two in 1990. He later finished the MBA courses with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China in 1998.