Co-found Ocean Broadband Networks (OBN), Ltd., which designs and manufactures PON based last mile broadband equipments and solutions to enable true broadband content delivery at very low cost. He has over decades’ telecom industry experience in technology, product development, marketing, and executive management with Salira Systems in USA (sold to Hitachi), Cylink in USA (sold to Safenet), and Nortel Networks in Canada. He has led the company to have achieved broad customer traction with major carriers such as China Telecom, China Netcom, and China Cable Operators.

Co-found Salira in 2000 and established its China WOFE in 2002. As Salira’s Founder/CTO, he built the company from scratch to an international organization in US and China. He led the effort to collect first hand market requirements from carriers in US, such as VERIZON, QWEST, AT&T, and carriers in China.

In 1985, Wei Gao graduated from Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He also studied for Master and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Institute of Software in 1985-1988 and at Institute of Computing Technology in 1988-1990, both of which are part of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.