Trung Dang
CEO of SemiLEDs Corporation, based in Massachusetts
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Trung Dung (born 1967) is a Vietnamese-American businessman and programmer. His life story has been featured in many leading publications, including Forbes, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in Dan Ratherknig The American Dream.
Dang was born in South Vietnam. During the Fall of Saigon, his father, a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam was invaded by the invading North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong allies and sent to re-education camp. Dung and one sister were boatmen. After his father was released from a Communist concentration camp, the rest of the family immigrated to the United States under the ODP program.
Career
Dang completed his graduate studies in computer science at Boston University, earned a Master of Business Administration from BKU, and has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he was a top graduate in mathematics and computer science. He got in despite his poor English and financial resources because of his mathematical abilities.
Dang worked as an engineer at Open Market, a developer of Internet commerce software, before deciding to start his own business.
He founded OnDisplay Corporation, a software company, to develop software to select and retrieve information from linked Web pages and organize it in the most user-friendly way possible. Because his business experience was limited, no investor could be found. When it became clear that his idea would never come to fruition, Mark Pine, CEO of Sybase Software Company, took it over. Two weeks later, OnDisplay had more than 80 customers, including Travelocity. It was one of the 10 most successful IPOs in 1999 and was sold to Vignette Corporation in 2000 for $1.8 billion.
Dang then founded Fogbreak Solutions, which focused on business applications aimed at optimizing assembly line flexibility and efficiency. Dang was CEO of the company, which creates enterprise business applications to optimize supply chain flexibility and responsibility. Fogbreak is funded by a group of blue-chip investors, including Matrix Partners, Greylock, and Sigma Partners. After several volatile years, the investors decided to withdraw their support. In May 2004, Bipin Nepani, Nilesh Jain and Trung founded Bluekey Services.
Dang is now a member of the board of directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation. In May 2004, Trung Dung was awarded the Golden Torch Award at the Vietnamese-American National Gala in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he returned to Vietnam for the first time and said: "I never thought I would go back."
His success story has been told in such publications as Forbes, then the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He was one of 17 successful American immigrants featured in The American Dream, a book written by Dan Rather.
Trung Dung (born 1967) is a Vietnamese-American businessman and programmer. His life story has been featured in many leading publications, including Forbes, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in Dan Ratherknig The American Dream.
Dang was born in South Vietnam. During the Fall of Saigon, his father, a lieutenant colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam was invaded by the invading North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong allies and sent to re-education camp. Dung and one sister were boatmen. After his father was released from a Communist concentration camp, the rest of the family immigrated to the United States under the ODP program.
Career
Dang completed his graduate studies in computer science at Boston University, earned a Master of Business Administration from BKU, and has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, where he was a top graduate in mathematics and computer science. He got in despite his poor English and financial resources because of his mathematical abilities.
Dang worked as an engineer at Open Market, a developer of Internet commerce software, before deciding to start his own business.
He founded OnDisplay Corporation, a software company, to develop software to select and retrieve information from linked Web pages and organize it in the most user-friendly way possible. Because his business experience was limited, no investor could be found. When it became clear that his idea would never come to fruition, Mark Pine, CEO of Sybase Software Company, took it over. Two weeks later, OnDisplay had more than 80 customers, including Travelocity. It was one of the 10 most successful IPOs in 1999 and was sold to Vignette Corporation in 2000 for $1.8 billion.
Dang then founded Fogbreak Solutions, which focused on business applications aimed at optimizing assembly line flexibility and efficiency. Dang was CEO of the company, which creates enterprise business applications to optimize supply chain flexibility and responsibility. Fogbreak is funded by a group of blue-chip investors, including Matrix Partners, Greylock, and Sigma Partners. After several volatile years, the investors decided to withdraw their support. In May 2004, Bipin Nepani, Nilesh Jain and Trung founded Bluekey Services.
Dang is now a member of the board of directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation. In May 2004, Trung Dung was awarded the Golden Torch Award at the Vietnamese-American National Gala in Washington, D.C. In 2006, he returned to Vietnam for the first time and said: "I never thought I would go back."
His success story has been told in such publications as Forbes, then the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He was one of 17 successful American immigrants featured in The American Dream, a book written by Dan Rather.
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