Mr. Joe Xiongwei Zhou

Mr. Zhou is an executive director of EL Capital. He has over 14 years multi-cultural and multi-national work experience. In the U.S., he was a manager at Delta Search Labs, a technology development and commercialization incubator company, where he was responsible for development and evaluation of new business opportunities, including a startup that utilizes virtual reality technology in applications of pain management. Before that, Mr. Zhou worked as a technical lead at Kasenna Inc and then as a custom engineer at Silicon Graphics Inc. In China, he was a co-founder and Vice General Manager to build Japan Takagi Living Goods (textile) Corporation and managed the daily operations of both the business branch and the manufacturing plant. In Japan, Mr. Zhou gained project management and quality control skills by working at Yokogawa Electric Corporation for 2 years.

Mr. Zhou studied in the MIT Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership, a demanding and accelerated full-time MBA program for mid-career executives and entrepreneurs. He also holds a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and a Bachelor degree in Precision Engineering from Tianjin University, China.