Executive Team

President

Linda Wu (Natera, Inc.) bio

LindaWuDr. Linda Wu has extensive experience in a wide range of intellectual property (IP) law, including patent prosecution, litigation, Inter Partes Review (IPR), interference, due diligence, freedom to operate, infringement, invalidity, and patentability evaluations.

Before joining Natera in May 2016 as an IP Counsel, Linda was an associate attorney with Foley & Lardner LLP, where her practice focused on IP counseling for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Linda earned her law degree from Santa Clara University.

Prior to her law career, Linda was a Scientist with Medarex/BMS, where Linda contributed to IND filings with FDA. Linda was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University and earned her PhD in Biology/Immunology from University of Toronto – Canada.


Vice Presidents

Hui Harry Wang (Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott)
Yvonne Ho (Law Office of Yvonne Ho)

Program Chair

Jason K. Yee (Law Office of Jason K. Yee)
Yvonne Ho (Law Office of Yvonne Ho)

Treasurer - Randy Wu (10X Genomics)

Secretary - Chen Ye (Jones Day)

Social Chair - Rick Weber (Oracle)

Public Relations/Bloggers

Jason K. Yee (Law Office of Jason K. Yee)
Sherry Liu (Rimon P.C.)

Web Designers

John Cao (Blakely Sokoloff)
Kevin G. Shao (Blakely Sokoloff)

In-house Committee Chair/Strategic Advisor - Lawrence Kong

Program Coordinators

Adam Li (Jun He)
Bowen Liu (Sheppard Mullin)
Ella Zheng (Sanford Heisler)
Linda Yu
Stephanie Yang (Jackson Lewis)
Suzette S. Lin (Substantia)

Executive Team Members

Adam Li (Jun He)
Bowen Liu (Sheppard Mullin)
Chen Ye (Jones Day)
Ella Zheng (Sanford Heisler)
Hui Harry Wang (Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott)
Jason K. Yee (Law Office of Jason K. Yee)
Jessie Zhou (UCHastings '18)
John Cao (Blakely Sokoloff)
Kaylee (Wen) Yang (Baker Botts)
Kevin G. Shao (Blakely Sokoloff)
Lawrence Kong (Amgen)
Linda Wu (Natera, Inc.)
Linda Yu
Randy Wu (10X Genomics)
Rick Weber (Oracle Corp.)
Sherry Liu (Rimon P.C.)
Stephanie Yang (Jackson Lewis)
Suzette S. Lin (Substantia)
Yvonne Ho (Law Office of Yvonne Ho)

Recent Past Presidents

Carol Leung (ArcSoft, Inc.) - 2015-2016
Alex Yan Nie (Sheppard Mullin) - 2013-2014
Zheng (Jen) Liu (Orrick)- 2010-2012
Ben Wang (Unilever) - 2009