Gene Wong

A Partner of The Angels' Forum, Gene Wong was a co-founder of INGRES Corporation and former President and CEO of Versata, Inc. He is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at Berkeley. He joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1962, where he later served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. With research interests in stochastic systems and database management, Wong was a co-designer of INGRES, one of the first modern database systems, and the author of a major text on stochastic processes. From 1990 to 1993, Wong served as Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and from 1998 to 2000 he headed the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He was Vice President for Research at HKUST (1994-96) and chaired the Council of Advisors on Innovation and Technology in Hong Kong (2002-2004). He was a long-time International Advisor on Science and Technology to the Prime Minister of Taiwan (2002-2011) where he recently led a major science policy study, Foresight Taiwan (2007-2010). Wong received the ACM System Prize in 1988 for his work on INGRES and the IEEE Founders Medal in 2005 for career long contributions. He is a member and former Councilor of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Academician of Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering (IVA). Gene Wong received his BS, MA, and PhD degrees (electrical engineering) from Princeton. In addition to his active investing activities, he is an advisor to the Siemens Technology-to-Business Center and a member of the Board of Directors of Hyster-Yale, Inc.