Nick Yang

President and Co-Founder, KongZhong Corporation

Nick Yang graduated from Stanford University with a Masters in electrical engineering in 1999. After graduation, he founded ChinaRen.com with two other friends and became CTO of the company. In 2000, ChinaRen.com was sold to Sohu.com, where Nick continued as CTO. In March 2002, he quit Sohu.com and co-founded KongZhong Corporation, where he serves as President of the company. KongZhong Corporation is a leading provider of advanced second generation (2.5 G) wireless valued-added services in China. As the strategic partner of China Mobile which has the largest mobile subscriber base in the world, KongZhong is leading the industry in terms of revenues of WAP, MMS and JAVA from China Mobile. On July 9, 2004, KongZhong was listed on Nasdaq (Nasdaq: KONG).