Boards: Knowles, PDF Solutions, Semtech, ServicePower. 

Jane Li is an accomplished public, private, and advisory board chair/director and chief operations officer (COO) with more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, delivering a successful track record in strategy development, general management, merger and acquisition (M&A), turnarounds, go-to-market, and sales leadership. She contributes a strong business acumen to the boardroom across the information technology, software as a service (SaaS), Internet of Things (IoT), semiconductors, wireless and telecommunications, cloud, software, and cybersecurity sectors.

Jane has expertise in growing numerous businesses and managing large profit and loss statements across Fortune 500 companies, including Corning, Fujitsu, Huawei, and Huawei Symantec Joint Venture. She enables public company boards to scale growth, leveraging her strong operations leadership in private equity companies, her keen ability to forge relationships far and wide, and her extensive international experience with global companies headquartered in the United States, Japan, and China.

Jane serves as board chair of Semtech (Nasdaq: SMTC), where she is also chair of the nominating and governance committee and a member of the compensation committee, guiding the board of this $900 million semiconductor company on strategic growth in the IoT and cloud areas. Her deep understanding across both chip businesses and systems as well as cloud and software businesses positions her as a unique contributor to board discussions. Jane’s wide network across many technology spaces enables a greater connection to the company, with new board members, new technology, and business partnership opportunities. As a member of the compensation committee, Jane advises on balancing executive retention with shareholder expectations. Through her unique background and wide network across China, she recently assisted the board and management team in mitigating risk in China while maximizing growth there.

Jane also serves as board director and as a member of the audit committee for the semiconductor company Knowles (New York Stock Exchange: KN), with more than $826 million in revenue. She brings to fellow board members and leadership teams a balanced approach of governance, strategic guidance, risk management, and meaningful encouragement. Jane guides Knowles by employing her deep expertise in growing businesses in both the semiconductor and communications/information technology spaces, which are the company’s key end markets. Jane balances insights with financial and operational acumen from experience in private equity engagements and uses her cybersecurity technology background in audit committee discussions. 

In 2021, Jane joined PDF Solutions (Nasdaq: PDFS) and serves on the company’s compensation committee. She also served on the board of CTS Corp. (NYSE: CTS) and was a member of its technology and transactions committee and nominating and governance committee from 2020 to 2023. Her focus was on bringing her technology and industry perspectives as the company expanded its presence in new and existing markets.

Currently, Jane serves as a strategic advisor for Diversis Capital, a private equity firm, where she led a turnaround strategy and many technology deals from assessment to due diligence. She also serves as a board director of the SaaS company ServicePower and was an advisory board member of Skytap, also a cloud and SaaS business, advising on go-to-market strategies, SaaS business models, product road map, leadership, and marketing and branding strategies. Before joining Diversis Capital, Jane was the COO of Huawei Enterprise US in information technology, cloud, and enterprise networking and mobility, and she was the general manager for Huawei Symantec USA (storage and network and cybersecurity). As the top US executive responsible for building the US business, she delivered $600 million in two years for two major global companies—Symantec and Huawei—successfully navigating cultural, political, branding, and innovation challenges.

As an M&A, turnaround CEO and operations consultant with The Gores Group, a private equity firm with $2.7 billion assets under management, Jane led the acquisition team of a $600 million revenue division of a large public company. Previously, in her marketing and sales director role for Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW), Jane forged key relationships with industry leaders and led the successful launch and promotion of metropolitan fiber products worldwide, contributing to the $7.1 billion in revenue in 2000. She also led her teams in tripling revenues to $350 million and increasing growth as the executive vice president and general manager of Fujitsu Compound Semiconductor Inc. Additionally, Jane was an advisory board member for Zadara Storage (cloud), Primex Wireless (cloud/wireless). Jane has earned coveted recognition, including being listed in the 2024 Top 100 Asian American Board Directors by Board Prospects, 2019 Most Influential Corporate Board Directors by WomenInc., 2019 Directors to Watch by Directors & Boards, and 100 Women in Tech 2015 by Hot Topics. Jane is a former member of the national board of directors for Women in Cable & Telecommunications. She earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees in telecommunications engineering from Zhejiang University as well as a master’s degree in communications and marketing from Ohio University. She also attended Stanford Directors’ College in 2016, 2017, and 2022. She is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.