Wong was executive vice president of
Nan Ya Plastics, an FPG subsidiary, until a widely publicized affair (and the resulting 14% drop in FPG stocks) led to his dismissal in December 1995. His father then “banished” Wong to the United States, where he spent one year teaching at the
business school of the
University of California, Berkeley. While in the United States, Wong met
Jiang Mianheng, son of
Jiang Zemin, the
General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party at that time. In 2000, Wong and Jiang Mianheng co-founded the US$1.63 billion
Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. joint venture in
Shanghai,
China. Though Wong serves as president and
CEO of that company, Wong himself is not a stockholder, due to cross-strait investment restrictions imposed by the
Republic of China (ROC). which are heavily invested in mainland China’s petrochemical and electronics industries, respectively. The Winston Wong Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology was created at Imperial College London in 2009. In 2015, Wong was named to “Top 100 Chinese for Economic Achievements and Contributions” list by
Management World Magazine. Wang has been a
visiting scholar at the
University of California, Berkeley, and
Imperial College London. ==Moon Regan TransAntarctic Expedition sponsorship==