Gerald G Wong

Born in 1953; US citizen; master's in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. He spent fifteen years inside AT&T and Lucent, rising to vice president of Lucent's optical networking division during the shift of optical transport from backbone to metro. He co-founded Oplink Communications in 2000, which Siemens acquired in 2005, and founded Xinqiao Network Equipment in Shanghai in 2006, the predecessor of CIG, starting from access-network gear and optical module contract manufacturing and moving into high-speed datacom modules and silicon photonics. He has been chairman and general manager since the first board and was paid RMB 2.61 million in 2025. He led the company's Hong Kong listing on 28 October 2025 and in the first half of 2026 CIG reported revenue of RMB 2.705 billion, up 32.92%, and net profit of RMB 328 million, up 171.08%.