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ARTHUR M. WANG is the chief executive officer and a director of our Company. He is also a member of the board of Linmark Group, a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed global sourcing firm, where he serves as chair of the compensation committee. Previously, Mr. Wang was a managing partner of 698 Capital Limited, an Asian investment firm, as well as an executive director of KGI Asia Limited ("KGI"). At KGI, Mr. Wang served as head of corporate finance. He also served as an investment advisor and board member of UFJ Asia Finance Technology Fund of the UFJ Group (formerly the Sanwa Bank Group of Japan), and as a board member and director of Softbank Investment International (Strategic) Limited, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed arm of Softbank Corporation. Mr. Wang received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and his Juris Doctorate degree from Yale Law School. He practiced corporate and securities law in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

THOMAS T. HUI is president, chief operating officer and a director of our Company. Mr. Hui joined GigaMedia from Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. ("Goldman Sachs"), where he was an executive director of the investment banking division. At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Hui originated and executed a broad range of mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions in Asia. Prior to working at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Hui served as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch & Co. and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, both in Hong Kong. Mr. Hui holds a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

QUINCY TANG is the chief financial officer of our Company. Mr. Tang joined GigaMedia from Vimicro International Corporation where he was chief financial officer. Mr. Tang brings over 20 years of financial and managerial experience to GigaMedia, having served in a number of leadership positions for Internet, media, technology and public accounting firms, including five years as finance director for Hong Kong-listed Internet and media company TOM Group and seven years as an auditor at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Mr. Tang graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a professional diploma in accountancy and is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom and an associate member of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries.

ROBERT J. CAHILL is the head of the gaming software and service business of our Company. Mr. Cahill is the chief executive officer of Cambridge Entertainment Software Limited (CESL). Prior to joining our Company, Mr. Cahill served as the chief financial officer for Smarterkids.com. He also previously served in the finance group for Gensym Corporation and as an audit manager at Ernst & Young, LLC. Mr. Cahill received a Master of Business Administration degree from Bentley College and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts.

YAUTIAN CHEN is the head of the online games business in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Mr. Chen has been chief executive officer of FunTown since November 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Chen was chief executive officer for Cayenne Technology Co., Ltd., an online game company. Prior to that, he served in various positions, including chief executive officer for Webzen Taiwan Corporation, an online game company, and the manager of the strategic division in Taiwan Index Co., which is also engaged in the online games business. Mr. Chen received a master’s degree in sociology from National Cheng-Chi University in Taiwan.

JIM JI WANG is the head of the online games business in China. Mr. Wang has been chief executive officer of T2CN since March 2008, and also held various positions within T2CN, including chief strategy officer, president and director. Prior to joining T2CN, he was the founder and president of HDT Technologies, Inc., an Internet technology and service provider in China. Mr. Wang graduated from Fudan University in China with a bachelor’s degree in computer software.

LESTER WONG is general counsel of our company. Prior to joining us, Mr. Wong was the senior legal counsel in CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA), a provider of enterprise software, online games, and Internet games and media services. Prior to that, Mr. Wong was with Cowen Latitude Asia, one of Asia’s leading growth sector focused investment banks and the wholly-owned Asia subsidiary of Cowen Group. Mr. Wong was admitted to the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1993, Law Society of British Columbia in 1993 and Law Society of Hong Kong in 1997. Mr. Wong obtained a bachelor’s degree from the University of Western Ontario and a bachelor of law degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada.