Management Team

UTStarcom's executive team features broad and deep management and technology innovation expertise coupled with a unique global perspective. Our management team has spearheaded the development of a wide variety of products and patents, using expertise in network architecture, software, high-speed voice and data services, handsets, and telephone systems. We're proud of these accomplishments that span the world of telecommunications applications, customers, and markets.

Chief Executive Officer and President

Peter Blackmore has served as UTStarcom's Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director since July 2008 and prior to that he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer from July 2007 to July 2008. From 2005 until 2007, Mr. Blackmore served as Executive Vice President in charge of world-wide sales, marketing and technology at Unisys Corporation. Prior to joining Unisys in 2005, he served as Executive Vice President of the Customer Solutions Group at Hewlett-Packard Company from 2004 and as Executive Vice President of the Enterprise Systems Group from 2002 through 2004. From 1991 until its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, Mr. Blackmore served in a number of senior management positions with Compaq Computer Corporation, most recently as its Executive Vice President of worldwide sales and services from 2000 through 2002. Mr. Blackmore also serves on the board of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. Mr. Blackmore holds an M.A. in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. and completed the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD.

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Lu joined UTStarcom in March 2010 as Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Mr. Lu oversees the broadband business unit, multimedia communication business unit, global supply chain and China sales and marketing functions. Mr. Lu brings more than 25 years of experience in telecom, opto-electronic components and investment project management in a multinational environment. Mr. Lu recently served as Co-Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, China at Source Photonics, a leading global opto-electronic component company. Prior to Source Photonics he held numerous positions at Fiberxon, which was sold to MRV Communications Inc. in July 2007, including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operations Officer and Vice President of Marketing and Sales. Prior to joining Fiberxon in September 2001, Mr. Lu worked for US Business Networks Inc. (MeetChina.com) as Director of Business Strategy Development from March 2000 to May 2001, and China National Technical Import and Export Corporation in a number of management positions from May 1988 to July 1998. Mr. Lu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

Senior Vice President, International Sales, Marketing and Services

Mr. Dominguez joined UTStarcom in November 2008 as Senior Vice President of International Sales, Marketing and Services. In this role, Mr. Dominguez oversees all aspects of global sales, marketing and services outside of China. Mr. Dominguez’s thirty-year career spans multiple global leadership, business development and sales roles at Unisys Corporation. Most recently, he served as Vice President and General Manager, Worldwide Regional Sales Operations, and President of the Americas for Unisys. He was also a member of the corporate Executive Committee and the corporate Change Management Office. Previously, Mr. Dominguez held numerous sales and business development positions in the public sector, commercial, communications and financial services domains.  He also held general manager positions for key regions including South Asia, the Americas, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Mr. Dominguez holds a B.S. in Business Management and a B.A. in Economics from Kean Business College.

Senior Vice President, China Sales, Marketing and Services

Mr. Mah joined UTStarcom in November 2008 as Senior Vice President, China Sales, Marketing and Services and is based in Hangzhou, China.  In this role, Mr. Mah oversees all sales activities for network infrastructure, system support, terminals and handsets.  Prior to joining UTStarcom, Mr. Mah was the Vice President of Sales at Nokia Networks and Nokia-Siemens Networks, managing overall sales operations for China Unicom and China Mobile North Region.  Additionally, Mr. Mah has held various leadership positions at Macromedia (acquired by Adobe in 2005), Openwave Greater China, Cisco, Nortel Networks, and Bell Northern Research (U.S.).  Mr. Mah holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President and Business Transformation Officer

Mr. Bose joined UTStarcom in April 2006 as Chief Information Officer. Prior to this, Mr. Bose was Vice President and Chief Information Officer with 3Com with global responsibility for the company's IT organization. During his tenure, Information Week selected 3Com as having the top High Technology IT organization for 2005. Previously, Mr. Bose was Director of Strategy, Architecture, and Advanced Development at Nortel Networks and Director of Information Systems at Claris. He also held management and technical positions at Quantum, Pacific Telesis Group, Systems Consultants Pte, Ltd. of Singapore, and Engineers India Limited. He received a B.S. from Delhi University in India and holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from National University, San Diego.

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Cheng joined UTStarcom in May 2010 as Chief Financial Officer. He brings a wealth of financial and management expertise as well as the track record of a successful CFO. His 25+ years of financial and operations experience working with leading Asia based global companies such as Zoomlion and PSA International to sustain and drive profitable growth will be valuable in driving the long-term growth strategy for UTStarcom. He joins UTStarcom from Zoomlion, a publicly listed company on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange where he served as chief financial officer. Prior experience includes various progressive financial and operational positions at Applied Materials, Compaq Computers, GTE, Ingram Micro and Mallinckrodt. He has also held chief financial officer roles at Titan Petrochemicals Group Limited and PSA International Pte. Ltd. Edmond received a B.B.A. in Accounting and Management Information Systems and a Masters of Accounting from the University of Hawaii. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Business Unit (BBU)

Ms. Sheng joined UTStarcom in April 2003 and has held a series of Director and Vice President positions in global engineering, network management and R&D.  Currently, she is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of UTStarcom’s Broadband Business Unit (BBU), which includes UTStarcom’s MSAN, GEPON, MSTP and PTN businesses.  In this role, Ms. Sheng is responsible for overall business unit leadership and management, including technology R&D and product portfolio management. Previously, Ms. Sheng held technical and senior management roles in engineering design and management at Nortel Networks, Hitachi Telecom and several telecommunications startups in the United States and Canada, including Silicon Valley-based Xros, Inc., an optical switching company acquired by Nortel Networks. Ms. Sheng holds a B.Eng. in Electronics Engineering from Southeast University, China; a M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from Institute of Plasma Physics, Academia Sinica, China and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary, Canada.

Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Multimedia Communication Business Unit (MCBU)

Dr. Zhao joined UTStarcom in early 2001. In January 2006, he was named General Manager and Vice President of the Multimedia Communication Business Unit (MCBU), which includes UTStarcom's Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Next Generation Network (NGN) and Personal Access System (PAS) infrastructure businesses. In this role, Dr. Zhao is responsible for overall business unit leadership and management, including technology R&D and product portfolio management. Previously, Dr. Zhao held technical and senior management positions in system engineering and product management at Nortel, Lucent and Motorola, with a consistent focus on system engineering, product management, and R&D engineering management. Dr. Zhao holds a B.S., M.E. in Computer Science and Ph.D. from Purdue University, holds several U.S. and China patents, and has contributed to numerous telecommunications industry standards bodies.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Mr. Li joined UTStarcom in May 2010 as General Counsel and Secretary. Henry has extensive experience in litigation, corporate governance and intellectual property law. His career started with Beijing Tong Zheng Law Offices. Prior to joining UTStarcom, he worked with ITT (China) Investment Co., Ltd. where he was the General Counsel, China & India Region, Chairman of Asia Pacific Ethics & Compliance Review Board / Board Member of China. Before that he serviced in Kraft Foods (China) Co., Ltd as Chief Counsel, Greater China / Head of Law & Compliance / Member of the Board of Directors. Henry received a Master of Law both from the Law School of Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. and the School of Law of Beijing University, Beijing, China. He got Attorney license of P. R. China in 1988.

Vice President and Chief Quality Officer

Mr. Lim has 27 years of diversified operational, product engineering and quality management experience with Hewlett Packard, NovAtel and JDS and other start ups in semiconductor assembly and testing, wireless (handset, base station, wireless data and GPS) and optical industry in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, USA and Taiwan. Mr. Lim graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering from The City University of London, UK in 1978.