|
Mr. Yuan has over 25 years of experiences in the apparel, trade show, banking, insurance and real estate industries. Mr. Yuan founded Cyber Merchant Exchange ("C-Me") in 1996, the height of the Internet boom, to create a convenient B2B web portal to assist apparel off-price retailers, to purchase stock lot goods overseas. C-Me successfully IPO in 1999. In 2003 and 2004, C-Me was rated in Forbes magazine as one of the last surviving B2B internet companies. In 2003 and 2005, C-Me was also honored by Deloitte & Touché as the fifth and third fastest growing company in California and the 101st and 50th fastest in the nation respectively. A natural spin-off of C-Me, Mr. Yuan produces the ASAP Global Sourcing Show, OCTBB ticker symbol ASHI.OB, as a tangible platform for the U.S. apparel industry to locate overseas manufacturers. Prior to C-Me, Mr. Yuan established Frenchy's, a retail clothing chain, as well as two Men's clothing lines, Knights of Round Table and Uniform Code. The annual volume of the respective clothing lines grew over US $100 Million per year. Mr. Yuan is the co-founder of Western Cities Title Insurance, Serv-American National Title Insurance, United National Bank and Ever trust Bank and serves as Chairman of the Board for J.J.J. USA Inc., a leading waste management company in China, and Uni-Fortune Real Estate Development Corp. in Los Angles. Mr. Yuan received his B.A. degree in Economics from Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan and M.B.A. from Utah State University. | 