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Wish you were here

In the Air tonight

I want to hold your Hand

Like Master & Servant

Light my Fire

Here I go again

Road to Nowhere

- By Coldplay

When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

High up above or down below
when you’re too in love to let it go
but If you never try you’ll never know
Just what your worth

Lights will guide you home
and ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears streaming down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears streaming down your face and I

Tears streaming down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

I was Born to be Wild,
I am Bad to the Bone,
I hate to go Icehouse and Street Cafe;
I wanna know the Shape of your Heart,
I wanna climb to the peak of your soul,
I wanna be the Owner of a lonely Heart,
I wanna you to Turn me Loose, Fade to Grey.

So leave me your roadmap to Fields of Gold,
For me to Light my Fire to be On the Road again,
Run to the Hill, Road to Nowhere, Be a Highway Star;
In Space Oddity, Far Far Away,
Rock on the Moon, One Step Beyond,
Through Stairway to Heaven,
Make you be the Desert Rose

Before starting The Hina Group, Dr. Chen founded and served as the Chairman and CEO of GRIC Communications, and led its successful IPO on NASDAQ in 1999. Dr. Chen served GRIC’s CEO from 1994 to early 2003 and continues to serve as the Chairman of GRIC, a global leader in deploying world¡¯s largest virtual dial up and broadband WiFi network in 150 countries. Prior to GRIC, he founded and was president and CEO of Aimnet, a successful Northern California Internet service provider that was acquired by Verio in 1997, which was sold to NTT in 2000 for $5.6B.

Dr. Chen is a highly respected new economy leader in the Asia Pacific community. He served as the President and Chairman of the Asian American MultiTech Association (AAMA) in 2000 and 2001 respectively, the largest Asia Pacific focused, high-tech business and executive association in Silicon Valley with over 1000 members. He is the President of the Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, the ¡°Churchill Club¡± of Mainland Born Chinese business leaders in Silicon Valley and China.

As one of the first group of mainland Chinese oversea students in the United States, and having founded and brought his company to IPO on NASDAQ as CEO, Dr. Chen has received numerous awards. In 1998, China¡¯s Committee for Oversea Chinese published a book naming Dr. Chen as one of the 30 most successful overseas Chinese worldwide. In 2000, Digital Weekly/Business Week of Taiwan named him one of the 100 most influential Chinese new world economy leaders. In 2001, China¡¯s CCTV cited Dr. Chen as one of the most successful Chinese in North America. He has also received an honorary professorship at one of the most prestigious Chinese universities, Xian Jiaotong University. In 2002, Deloitte & Touche named GRIC as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America.

Dr. Chen has spoken and keynoted numerous times on issues such as the global and China communications market, Chinese entrepreneurship, and Asia Pacific new economy at prominent universities and business forums. He often advises top executives of many leading Asian telecom carriers on global strategy.

Dr. Chen received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Xian Jiaotong University in 1982 at the age of 19, and a Ph.D. in computer science from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1991.

Born 1939 Wisbech Cambridgeshire, educated Bolton School. BSc (First class honours degree Chemistry, 1961) and a PhD (Molecular Spectroscopy, 1964) University of Sheffield. Postdoctoral work at the National Research Council (Ottawa, Canada 1964-66) and Bell Telephone Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ USA 1966-67); Tutorial Fellow 1967, lecturer 1968, Reader 1977University of Sussex (Brighton) in 1967. He became a professor in 1985 and a Royal Society Research Professor in 1991. In 1996 he was knighted for his contributions to chemistry and later that year, together with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley (of Rice University, Houston, Texas), received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of C60 Buckminsterfullerene a new form of carbon.

Research fields cover several major topics:

1)     (1961-1970) Electronic spectroscopy of free radicals and unstable intermediates in the gas phase, ii) Raman spectroscopy of intermolecular interactions in the liquid phase and iii) Theoretical studies of electronic properties ground and excited states of small molecules and free radicals.
2)     (1970-1980) Research focused on the creation of new molecules with multiple bonds between carbon and elements, mainly of the second and third row of the Periodic Table (S, Se and P), which were reluctant to form such a link. These studies showed that many of these previously assumed impossible species could be produced, studied by spectroscopy and used as valuable synthons leading to a wide class of new phosphorus containing compounds. In particular the spectroscopic studies of molecules with carbon-phosphorus multiple bonds (C=P and C?P) were the pioneering studies that initiated the now prolific field of Phosphaalkene/alkyne Chemistry.
3)     (1975-1980) Laboratory and radioastronomy studies on long linear carbon chain molecules (the cyanopolyynes) led to the surprising discovery (by radioastronomy) that they existed in interstellar space and also in stars. Since these first observations the carbon chains have become a major area of modern research by molecular spectroscopists and astronomers interested in the chemistry of space.
4)     (1985-1990) The revelation (1975-1980) that long chain molecules existed in space could not be explained by the then accepted ideas on interstellar chemistry and it was during attempts to rationalise their abundance that C60 Buckminsterfullerene was discovered. Laboratory experiments at Rice University, which simulated the chemical reactions in the atmospheres of red giant carbon stars, serendipitously revealed the fact that the C60 molecule could self-assemble. This ability to self-assemble has completely changed our perspective on the nanoscale behaviour of graphite in particular and sheet materials in general. The molecule was subsequently isolated independently at Sussex and structurally characterised.
5)     (1990-) Present research focuses on Fullerene chemistry and the nanoscale structure of new materials, in particular nanotubes. This has led to a wide range of new nanostructured materials the first insulated nanowires and new perspectives on the mechanism of nanotube formation.

Key collaborations: With D R M Walton (Sussex), T Oka, L Avery, N Broten and J MacLeod (NRC Ottawa) on carbon chain molecules in the laboratory and space; J F Nixon on phosphaalkene/alkyne chemistry (at Sussex); with J P Hare, P R Birkett, A Darwish, M Terrones, W K Hsu, N Grobert, Y Q Zhu, R Taylor and D R M Walton on Fullerene chemistry and nanostructures (at Sussex); with R F Curl, J R Heath, S C O’Brien, Y Liu and R E Smalley (at Rice University Texas) on the discovery of Buckminsterfullerene.

Education:

Chairman of the board of the Vega Science Trust which is produces science programmes for network television. 75 have been made and so far 55 have been broadcast on the BBC Learning Zone educational slot. Member of National Advisory Committee on Cultural and Creative Education.

Scientific Awards, etc:

Tilden Lectureship of the RSC (1981); International Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society (shared 1992 with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley); Italgas Prize for Innovation in Chemistry (1992); Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal (1993); Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize (shared with Wolfgang Kraetschmer, Don Huffman and Richard Smalley 1994); Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1996 (shared with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley); American Carbon Society Medal for Achievement in Carbon Science (shared with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley1997); Blackett Lecturship 1999 (Royal Society); Faraday Award and Lecture 2001 (Royal Society). Dalton Medal 1998 (Manchester Lit and Phil), Erasmus Medal of Academia Europaea, Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal 2000 (Prague) for contributions to molecular spectroscopy.

Fellowships etc:

Fellow of the Royal Society (1990), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002-2004), Mexican Academy of Science; Member Academia Europaea (1993); Hon. Foreign Member Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) (1997); Hon. Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society (1998); Hon. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1998); Hon Fellow of the RSC (2000).

Honorary degrees:

Université Libre (Bruxelles), Stockholm (Sweden), Limburg (Belgium), Sheffield, Kingston, Sussex, Helsinki (Finland), Nottingham, Yokohama City (Japan), Sheffield-Hallam, Aberdeen, Leicester, Aveiro (Portugal), Bielefeld Germany), Hull, Manchester Metropolitan, Exeter, Hong Kong City (China), Gustavus Adolphus College (Minnesota, USA), University College London, Patras (Greece), Halifax (NovaScotia, Canada), Strathclyde; Hon Fellowship: Bolton Institute.

Graphic Design:

Graphic design work has resulted in numerous posters, letterheads, logos, book/journal covers, medal design etc. Awards: Sunday Times Book Jacket Design competition (1964) and more recently the Moet Hennessy/Louis Vuitton Science pour l’Art Prize (1994). Citation in the international design annual “Modern Publicity” (1979) for the cover of “Chemistry at Sussex”

TV/Internet Science Programmes:

Prix Leonardo Bronze Medal (2001); Chemical Industries Association (Presidents prize short list1998 and 1999)