Ronald Chwang

Biography

Dr. Ronald Chwang is the Chairman and President of iD Ventures America. Dr. Chwang initiated the Acer venture investment activities in North America with the launch of “Acer Technology Venture Fund” in 1997. Subsequently, IDVA has successfully formed “IP Fund One” in 2000, “iD6 Fund” in 2005 and “iD8 Fund” in 2008. Dr. Chwang is also a General Partner of iD SoftCapital. Since 1998, iD Ventures America has managed a total of $250 million of venture capital investments in innovating technology start-up companies based in Silicon Valley, and the greater Boston area. Among the notable successes are iRobot (creator of consumer robots, Roomba, and military robot, Packbot); Harmonix Music (creator of music games: Guitar Hero and Rock Band), Artx (silicon chips for Nintendo GameCube), as well as companies such as Allayers (acquired by Broadcom), Monolithic Power System (NASDAQ IPO), Centrality Communication System (acquired by SiRF), Airmagnet (acquired by Fluke Electronics), and others. From 1986 to 1997, Dr. Chwang was with various Acer entities, serving in executive positions, leading business units engaged in ASIC products, computer peripherals, and enterprise server system. From 1992 to 1997, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Acer America Corporation, leading to build Acer’s North America business over $1 billion per year. Before joining the Acer entities, Dr. Chwang worked in development and management positions at Intel in Oregon and Bell Northern Research in Ottawa. Dr. Chwang is currently serving as an active board member of a number of IDVA’s portfolio companies such as CoAdna Photonics Inc., Luxnet Corp., mCube, Inc., Silicon Frontline Technology Inc.,Striiv Inc., and Zeo Inc.,. He also serves on the board of AU Optronics Corporation in, Hisinchu, Taiwan and iRobot Corporation in Bedford, MA.. Dr. Chwang holds a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada .and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. 

Research Interest

 engineering