McWong International

Leadership Team

Margaret Wong

President & Founder

Margaret founded McWong International, Inc. in 1984. She brings over 25 years of lighting experience from manufacturing and procurement to technology development; including light sources, luminaires, LED drivers, sensors, wireless control systems, etc. For many years, Margaret has demonstrated the leadership and vision to both predict and actively drive profound changes enabled by LED semiconducting, IOT and smart lighting solutions. Her cross-border and financial investment experience has brought together many opportunities and deals between the US and Asia in the lighting industry and beyond.

Blane Goettle

Vice President

Blane manages business development and sales as well as strategic product development and key partner relationships. From the early 90’s prior to joining McWong as an assistant project manager, Goettle worked and studied in Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing where in 1996 China’s first ‘Green Lighting Symposium’ hosted by Philips and Osram provided his first glimpse into energy efficient lighting. Goettle holds a Masters in International Business from the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina and a B.S. in symbolic systems from Stanford University. He is an IES member, a native English speaker, proficient in Chinese and struggling to get beyond basic-level Spanish and French.

Stephen Zhou

Vice President

Stephen manages product development and business operations as well as strategic partner relationships. Prior to this role, he worked for the company in a number of roles, including project manager, product manager and sales manager. Zhou holds an MBA from the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University and a B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. He is an IES member and is fluent in English and Chinese.