Andrew Kang
Mr. Andrew J.S. Kang is the managing director of TAMC Ltd., a venture capital fund headquartered in Plano, TX. He is also the president of Natural Polymer International Corporation, a privately held high tech startup company based in Richardson, Texas, which focuses on researching biodegradable materials for different industrial and commercial applications.

Prior to funding TAMC, Mr. Kang was the founder and president of the venture capital company, Technology Associates Corporation (TAC) in Taiwan. He also has been the president of Hanmore Venture Capital Company in Taiwan, which is a fund under management by H&Q Taiwan. Mr. Kang served with TAMC of H&Q Taiwan from 1987 to 1990. Since 1987, Mr. Kang spent most of his career in venture capital investment business. The first three years, Mr. Kang was responsible for the major operations of H&Q Taiwan, and over the next seven years he was fully responsible for TAC's operation. Turn out for these two venture capital firms was over 30% IRR in the last 10 years.

Mr. Kang has broad contact in both the Taiwan Hsin-Chu Science Industrial Park (HSIP) and the Silicon Valley in California. During these ten years, he was responsible for the formation of Micronix International corporation, a Taiwan based micro chip manufacturing company which went public in Taiwan in 1994. He also formed SpaceHab Taiwan Company, Ltd., which went public in the US in 1996. He formed the Hanmore Venture Capital Co., and served as president. From 1992 to 1994 he served as president and CEO of Polytronix, a Richardson, Texas, based LCD manufacturing company. Mr. Kang has served as a broad member of MXIC, Eastern Electronics, Innova Technology, from Taiwan, and VIC Corp., OCRON, IXMICRO, AOC, Aimtech, SpaceHab, PI, GRIC, QSI, Scanvision, ADS, NPIC, from the US. Now he is still active on the boards of the e\seven high tech companies: IET, Globitech, NPIC, Techauts, Netscreen, Oplink, and MKNet..

Prior to joining Venture Capital Industries, Mr. Kang accumulated years of experience in government and industry. He served as the director in charge of the investment division at Hsin-Chu Science Industrial Park )HSIP from 1985 to 1987, and was fully responsible for the promotion of HSIP to attract overseas high tech companies. He also reviewed the investment cases while approving and monitoring their progress. From 1982 to 1985 he was the deputy director of Joint Industrial and Investment Service Center of MOEA, which provided one-step service to FIA Companies in Taiwan. Mr. Kang spent five years, from 1977 to 1982, in Pacific Glass Company, a Corning Glass subsidiary in Taiwan, where he served at different levels while gaining hands-on experience in mass production scale.

Mr. Kang received his MSM in management and economics from ADL Management Educational Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his BA and MA from Soochow University, Taiwan.

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