Achievo Names Former HP Executive Vincent Lin to Head New Business Group in China
New Achievo Multinational Business Group Announced
SAN RAMON, Calif. - August 6, 2006 - Achievo® Corporation, the leading global software and information technology outsourcing provider with a local front-end and China back-end service model, today announced the appointment of Dr. Vincent Lin to head the Achievo Multinational Business Group, one of two new business units announced today. (Refer to the Achievo Business Groups press announcement released today.) Dr. Lin will report to Dr. Robert P. Lee, Achievo's chairman and chief executive officer.
"As our operations expand in Asia, we are strengthening our management team to ensure that Achievo's back-end capabilities have the right mix of skills, resources and expertise to support the offshore outsourcing requirements of our customers worldwide," said Dr. Lee. "Vincent has a wealth of IT experience and a proven track record, and brings high energy, strategic thinking, and a strong customer focus to the table. In addition, he will help improve our industry and government relations in China. We are fortunate to have someone of Vincent's caliber and diverse background join our management team."
As the head of the Achievo Multinational Business Group, Dr. Lin has overall responsibility for the operations of Achievo's many business divisions in Greater China including the original Achievo Beijing (Beijing), Achievo Jeyo (Guangzhou) and Achievo VisualSoft (Taipei and Jinan). In addition, Dr. Lin will work with the Achievo divisions worldwide to plan, develop and align Achievo China's back-end capabilities with the requirements of the other divisions to support their sales and customer service goals.
Dr. Lin and the Achievo Multinational Business Group will be located in Beijing.
Dr. Lin comes to Achievo from Hewlett Packard where he was senior director of HP's Global Delivery China Center, and senior director of business operation and strategy for HP's Global Delivery Application Services North Asia Cluster. Dr. Lin set up and managed software development centers in China in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Dalian. While at HP, he oversaw more than 1,300 software professionals and consultants working to develop and deliver application solutions to local and offshore customers in Greater China, Japan, Korea, North Asia, the United States and Europe.
Previously, Dr. Lin was Greater China Java chief consultant and ISV director of Great China for Sun Microsystems. He also held Internet Product Division director positions at Corel Corporation in Canada and was a senior engineer at Varian Associates in the United States. Additionally, Dr. Lin is founder of a investment company with funding from Japan Softbank Venture Capital.
Dr. Lin received a doctoral degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a bachelor's degree from Jilin University. He did doctoral research on artificial intelligent expert systems at the Varian Research Center under the sponsorship of Stanford University. In addition to his corporate responsibilities at Achievo, Dr. Lin is a part time professor of engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Engineering Institute.
About Achievo
Achievo Corporation is a leading provider of software outsourcing and information technology services to a global client base primarily through its regional
offices in Japan, North America, Europe and Greater China. Five of Achievo's delivery centers in China are ISO-27001 certified, of which two are also ISO-9001
certified and another is CMMI level 5 certified. With expertise in diverse technologies including Java/J2EE, .NET and embedded platforms, Achievo offers improved
efficiencies, scale, diversification, and a skilled talent pool to deliver cost-effective, client-centric, and scalable IT outsourcing services to clients worldwide.
Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Achievo has offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, China and Japan. For information on the company and
its services, visit www.achievo.com.
