Tom is an Internet executive with blue-chip business experience and a deep background in China dating back to 1982. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and Yale University, has worked at McKinsey and IBM, and was a principal executive at five high-profile and successful Silicon Valley internet start-ups over 12 years:CNET, There.com, NetObjects, 24 Hours in Cyberspace and daVinci Time & Space. He moved back to China in 2004, and then co-founded a B2C internet media company, which he sold successfully two years later.