Leland Lai
Project Director
Leland is the Taiwan Director for one of our major clients – The Arizona Commerce Authority – heading its FDI and trade initiatives in Taiwan. He was previously a consultant advising Facebook, Shanghai Media Group, GenMobile, WATCHA, SBIE2 Advisors and Foxconn’s EV consortium, MIH. He led GSMA’s Asia operations for seven years, was part of the Terayon executive team when Motorola acquired the firm for $140M, and a member of eOn Communications’ IPO team. Leland has an MBA and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA. He was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs, served in the US Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and is fluent in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese.