Jacob Hsu is the CEO of The Symbio Group (www.symbio-group.com), a global product development and R&D outsourcing services company whose worldwide headquarters is in Beijing.

Mr. Hsu joined Symbio in 1998 and has been instrumental in growing the company from 40 engineers to over 1,800 today. While at Symbio, Mr. Hsu has been involved in all facets of growing the company having previously served as President, COO, and CMO in addition to having led Symbio’s North American and Japan operations. Mr. Hsu also guided the development of the Symbio Software Institutes in China, and was one of the founders of Symbio Digital Entertainment, today one of China’s leading game outsourcing companies.

Prior to joining Symbio, he was the CEO of Trilogica Technologies, a data aggregation software company, and CEO of Epitome Software, an IT services company focused on financial services. He began his career as an investment banker focused on mergers & acquisitions at Fox-Pitt, Kelton. In addition to his role at Symbio, Mr. Hsu is a member of the board of directors of Qifang.cn, a student lending company in China, Spark Technologies, a mobile video technology company, and serves as Vice Chairman of Symbio-ESP, an operator of software parks in China. Recently named by Chief Executive Magazine as one of “The World’s Top 12 Young Global Leaders of Tomorrow” (June 2008), Mr. Hsu is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business.