Bill Huang, born in 1962, is chief executive of Dataa Robotics, a maker of cloud software for robotics firms. The company, then known as Cloudminds, filed to go public in New York in 2019 with the goal of raising $500 million. It later canceled the IPO amid…

…scrutiny from Washington on technology transfer between its U.S. and Chinese offices. The U.S. Department of Commerce added the company’s Chinese subsidiary to a trade blacklist in 2020, and the firm has since fallen on tough times. Huang founded Cloudminds in 2015 after serving as president of an R&D division at telecom firm China Mobile. He holds a master’s in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.