Carter Tseng

Dr. Carter Tseng has over 25 years of commercial leadership experience in the highly competitive information and communication industries. Dr. Tseng was a co-founder of Microtek, the world class leader in the image scanner industry, one of the first and most successful IPO companies based in Taiwan’s highly prestigious Science Park. Since retiring as CEO, Dr. Tseng has turned his attentions and experience to teaching and mentoring the CEOs of tomorrow, plus serving on the advisory boards of many large companies.

Prior to returning to Taiwan in 1980, Dr. Tseng spent over 10 years in US based companies such as Lockheed, Xerox, and NRL, where he held increasingly responsible positions in such areas as system design, technical marketing and high-tech enterprise management. As a skillful negotiator, Dr. Tseng has used his skills and entrepreneurial talents to secure many highly lucrative OEM, ODM, and distribution contracts with large globally recognized concerns such as Siemens, Philips, Hitachi, GEC, Data I/O, Panasonic, Rockwell, and NEC, to name but a few.

After graduating with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1970, Dr. Tseng went on to earn Masters and Doctoral degrees in computer science and electronics engineering from UCLA. Dr. Tseng holds patents, one of which is the Keyboardless Input Method, and has been active in publications.

Presently, in addition to his responsibilities as founder & CEO of the Little Dragon Foundation, whose mission is to guide entrepreneurs of tomorrow, Dr. Tseng also holds seats on the boards of several high technology enterprises and educational organizations. He serves as Vice Chairman of Arlotto and director of AIPTEK and Arima.

Dr. Tseng is a member of the Committee of 100 and Co-founder of ECO Foundation for the environment. Dr. Tseng is the special advisor to the President of Tsing Hua University, and EMBA Professor. He is also serving as a Business Advisory Council (BAC) member for University of Alberta, Canada. His academic posts include Adjunct Professorships at City University of Hong Kong, University of Alberta (Canada), and CEO Training Professor at Tsing Hua University. He is also a Co-founder of Monte Jade Science & Technology Association (USA).

Dr Tseng received the “2004 Distinguished Achievement Award” from the Chinese Institute of Engineers, USA (CIE), in recognition “for pioneering work and leadership in the high-tech industry, and contributions in education on industrial management.”

Dr. Tseng is very happily married with one daughter at Stanford University and presently divides his time between Beijing, Taiwan and USA in order to fulfill his many global commitments.