Jia Shen
President and CEO
Jia Shen, co-founder of RockYou, has served as the President and CTO of RockYou. While still actively involved in RockYou's core business, Jia is currently the CEO of RockYou Asia based in Japan. Named one of Businessweek's top twenty-something entrepreneurs in 2008, Jia has helped grow the company to over 200 people over the last 5 years. Jia developed Rockyou.com to 1 million users in 3 months eventually serving over 100 million widgets a day before RockYou acquired funding. Jia helped raise over 120 Million dollars from the likes of Sequoia Capital, Softbank, and Doll Capital Management. He scaled the company's infrastructure to support some of the world's biggest social applications / games and the largest social ad network at 20 Billion monthly PV’s. Jia has always had a passion for cutting edge technologies, day-dreaming about the prevalence of internet and social since the day he first dialed into ARPANET; hacking and programming since before he was 10, Jia is a hardcore gamer. Prior to founding RockYou at 25, Jia experienced a wide variety of tech companies ranging from consumer shopping, email authentication and security, import export shopping automation, and VoiceXML / telephony. Jia was also part of the original team at Bell Laboratories which developed the VoiceXML format into the W3C standard. Jia has a double major in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Ryo Ishizuka
COO
Chief Architect at RockYou. Since the foundation of RockYou, Ryo has supported its infrastructure, which rapidly grew to the service of more than 20 billion PV per month. He has also played a role of an evangelist as a bridge between US and Japan since the start up of RockYou Asia in 2008.
Born in Japan and moved to Boston, US at 14 years old, Ryo spent his life in US until he graduated from the university. After graduation, he was involved in starting up numbers of companies in Japan and gained experience in design and development of various web services as an engineer both for B to B and B to C.
