Daintree's Management Team
  
Danny Yu, CEO
Danny brings 20 years of leadership and growth company experience in lighting,
communications, enterprise infrastructure, and semiconductors. Prior to Daintree, Danny was
Vice President of Segment and Strategic Marketing at Philips Lumileds where he led global
marketing, business development, and product definition for Solid State Lighting segments.
He originally joined Lumileds prior to its acquisition by Philips as Vice President of Global
Major Account Sales and Business Development. During his tenure at Lumileds, Danny led multiple
lighting businesses from start-up to $70–$100M in revenues and market-leading positions.
Earlier in his career, Danny held senior roles in the Venture Capital industry including
Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners, and Partner at DynaFund Ventures. He
invested in and served as a board member for companies spanning enterprise systems, data
networking, telecommunications, advanced components, and software. Danny also held technical
sales management and engineering roles at Hewlett-Packard and Apple. Danny earned a BS in
Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School.
Jason Choong, Chief Solution Architect and Vice President Product Management
Prior to joining Daintree, Jason held roles with Agilent Technologies, and prior
to that, Hewlett Packard Company. He has considerable experience in technical
marketing including roles as Product Marketing Manager, Regional Business
Development Manager and as a Software Engineer in Hewlett Packard and Agilent
Technologies. His extensive communications industry expertise includes IP, ATM
and SONET technologies. Within Daintree, his responsibilities include product management and solutions engineering.
Jason has been active in standards and industry bodies, and has chaired the Commissioning Tools Task Group within the ZigBee Alliance and spoken at conferences and industry events. He also holds and has submitted patents and patent applications on wireless systems and commissioning. Jason has Bachelors Degrees of Science and Engineering from The University of
Western Australia, and a Masters of Engineering from The University of
Melbourne.
Niall Mai, Vice President Engineering
Niall is responsible for all engineering matters at Daintree Networks. Before joining
Daintree, he held roles as CTO at Sigtec, and prior to that, Raywood Communications. Niall
has strong experience in managing companies through periods of transition such as
Acquisitions, VC funding and MBOs. Niall has a deep technical background working largely in
the communications and dispatch fields. He has spent many years managing the development
of large and complicated dispatch systems, specializing in multiple forms of wireless
communication and a variety of mobile devices. His extensive involvement in large
development projects has seen him deploy solutions to most regions of the world. Niall
originally comes from an embedded background, working on DSP algorithms for voice
compression and modems. His formal background includes an Honors Degree in Engineering
and an Honors Degree in Computer Science.
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