Overview

Gender

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Hong Tan, PhD, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, began his entrepreneurial career in 2000 when he founded Wave Crossing, a fiber optics company that developed a self-focus lens technology widely used in the optic fiber networks. In 2001, Hong founded FortéBio, where he led the creation of the Bio-layer Interferometry technology. Before starting his entrepreneurial endeavor, he worked for several data storage companies, including Iomega, Seagate, and Maxtor. Hong was responsible for the control system for the High Energy Imaging Device, a NASA space telescope project. He received Ph.D. and MSEE from Auburn University, BSEE from Xi’an Jiao Tong University, and EMBA from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.