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.

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. Luk's business career spans over 30 years, including senior level financial and executive management positions at several Asian based technology companies. Prior to joining UTStarcom, Mr. Luk served as Chief Financial Officer for China Sunergy Company Ltd. from December 2007 to March 2009. From April 2004 until June 2007, he was Corporate Controller, Asia/Japan of Freescale Semiconductor Hong Kong Ltd., a spin-off business of Motorola. From 1990 until the business spin-off, Mr. Luk served in a number of positions with Motorola Semiconductor Hong Kong Ltd., most recently as its Sector Controller of Asia/Japan from March 2002 to March 2004. Prior to joining Motorola Semiconductor, Mr. Luk worked for A.S. Watson & Company Limited as Group Credit Manager from July 1985 to December 1989. Mr. Luk began his career at The Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd. in 1977. Mr. Luk received a B.A. in Economics from University of Toronto in Canada and holds a M.B.A. from York University, Ontario, Canada.

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.

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.