Leadership Team

Helix's team has built leading high-tech manufacturers and developed some of the most sophisticated factory automation systems in the world.

Jesse Chen

  • Senior VP; former Head of Asia Supply Chain at Dell
  • Led $30B annual spend; managed 100+ suppliers and 20 plants; Asia P/L with $5.5B cash flow
  • SVP at Blackstone’s DJO Global ($1.3B); managed $500M annual spend
  • Jabil ($28B) Managing Director; built Asia manufacturing operations
  • B.S. in Computer Science (U.S.)

Sam Liang

  • Senior EVP; former Foxconn Senior Director
  • Led manufacturing and in‑house automation across China, Europe, and Latin America; won $500M Nokia program
  • Senior management at Wistron ($37B); built U.S. and Mexico operations
  • Managed 10 factories and 20,000 employees across the U.S., Europe, China, ASEAN, and South Asia
  • Ph.D. in Materials Science (U.S.); 4 process patents

Tom Hu

  • Senior VP; General Manager of High‑Precision Components
  • Closed $180M in business with Apple, Cisco, and Samsung
  • VP at Swiss electronics manufacturer ($500M); former management at ViewSonic ($2B)
  • Scaled optics systems business from $10M to $300M; led China‑to‑Vietnam technology transfer
  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Taiwan); Graduate studies in Electrical Engineering (U.S.)

David Wang

  • Chairman; former Executive Vice President at Applied Materials
  • Expanded Asian operations 7x across Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea
  • Led industry‑leading semiconductor equipment; Precision 5000 in the Smithsonian; contributed critically to extending Moore’s Law
  • Bell Labs: 100 patents, generated $1B in licensing revenue
  • Ph.D. in Materials Science, UC Berkeley

Kevin Kan

  • Executive Chairman; Foxconn Group senior executive and board director
  • Grew mobile business from $0 to $12B; expanded to 10 countries, scaling to $30B
  • Drove automation (including Foxconn’s first “dark factory”); managed ~120,000 employees
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Taiwan)

John-Paul Ho

  • Chief Executive Officer; Founder of Crimson Capital (US, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, China totaling $800M PE/VC)
  • Recipient of McKinsey awards; recognized by Time as a leading investor in Asia
  • Goldman Sachs New York M&A; Credit Suisse First Boston: Head of Asia ex‑Japan
  • Invested in core suppliers to Dell, Apple, and HP; Advisor on advanced semiconductor manufacturing
  • Harvard A.B. in Engineering/Applied Mathematics (highest honors); Harvard MBA; recipient of the Dean’s Fellowship

Our Mission

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Our mission is to be a global leader in manufacturing, recognized for exceptional quality and technical leadership across every industry we serve. Through a strategically distributed production network, we deliver the manufacturing capabilities required to bring complex, high‑impact products to market faster and more efficiently.

What We Do

We deliver world‑class manufacturing capabilities, optimized through AI and deep industry expertise to customers worldwide.

Helix Systems Group orchestrates manufacturing operations and our supplier ecosystem, using AI to optimize production processes across our entire network. We cover the full spectrum from contract manufacturing and precision machining to complex system integration and logistics.

Our AI platform continuously analyzes and improves operations, predicting issues before they occur and automatically adjusting production parameters to ensure optimal quality and efficiency. This intelligence layer seamlessly augments our physical manufacturing capabilities.

We operate across multiple countries with manufacturing facilities and supplier ecosystems in Taiwan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. We can dynamically allocate production based on cost, capacity, or geopolitical factors to ensure each project is executed in the most suitable location while minimizing supply chain risk.