Roger I. Kung
E28 Chairman & CEO
Mr. Roger Kung has received wide renown for his leadership ability and excellence in business mana-gement within the global semi-conductor, computer, and comm-unication industries.

Mr. Kung started as a semicon-ductor memory designer in 1976 then worked his way up, becoming VP of technical staff with Motorola’s Semiconductor Sector in 1988. He was promoted to VP and General Manager of the FSRAM division in 1991. Mr. Kung was credited with leading this global business unit in achieving rapid market share improvement from worldwide #6 to #1 within three years (1991-1994).

In 1995, Mr. Kung was transferred to Asia to head up Motorola’s cellular phone business. Under his vision and guidance, China became the dominant global manufacturing center for the company, and cutting edge design, marketing, SW, and wireless end to end solution centers were established throughout Asia. During his tenure Mr. Kung led Motorola’s cellular phone business to achieve #1 market share positions in both the China and Taiwan markets and grew the business from $200M to $4B annually. Retiring from the position of President of Motorola Personal Communication Sector in Asia, Mr. Kung founded E28 Limited at the end of 2002.

Mr. Kung has received many awards for his technical achievements and business management performance including: 9 international patents in semiconductor components and communication systems design, more than 30 technical papers published, and various speaker roles for many industry sponsored international conferences.

The "Best Paper" award from JSSC of IEEE, 1986
"Outstanding Alumni" award from National Jiao-Tung University, Hsincha, Taiwan, 1991
"Father of iRAM" award from Intel Corporation, 1984
"Father of Tai-Chi PDA phone" award from Motorola Inc. 2000
"Father of Linux Smart Phone" award from Linuxdevices.com, 2003

Mr. Kung graduated from National JiaoTung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan with a B.S of Electronic Physics degree in 1971 and M.S.E.E from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA in 1974.