Tuya Inc
Officers & Directors
Xueji (Jerry) Wang founded Tuya in 2014 and currently serves as a director and our chief executive officer. Mr. Wang is responsible for the overall strategies, management, corporate culture, and commercial suitability and sustainability of products of Tuya. Mr. Wang has over seven years of experience in IoT industry and about 18 years of experience focusing on software technology, including over 11 years of experience in elastic cloud computing technologies. Prior to founding Tuya, Mr. Wang founded PHPWind, one of the most popular open source forums software in China, in 2003. In May 2008, PHPWind was acquired by Alibaba Group. From May 2008 to February 2014, Mr. Wang worked at Alibaba Group, where he served as a senior director and he was responsible for leading and launching a number of major technology and product innovations for Alibaba Cloud and Alipay, including Alibaba's QR code payment system. Mr. Wang received a bachelor's degree in information and technology science from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in the PRC in June 2005. Mr. Wang was recognized by Forbes as a member of China's Thirty Entrepreneurs under 30 in February 2012, and was named by Fortune China as one of China's Forty Business Elites under 40 in April 2021.
Liaohan (Leo) Chen co-founded Tuya in 2014 and currently serves as a director and our president. Mr. Chen is responsible for the overall strategies, management, business development and overall customer relationship of Tuya. Prior to co-founding Tuya, Mr. Chen is the co-founder of PHPWind. Mr. Chen served as an operations director at Alibaba Group, where he worked on Alibaba Cloud and Alibaba's O2O business, leading the application of technology and business operation, from May 2008 to May 2014. Mr. Chen received a bachelor's degree in information and computing science from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in the PRC in June 2005, and received a master's degree in computer applied technology from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in the PRC in July 2010.
Yi (Alex) Yang co-founded Tuya in 2014 and has served as our chief operation officer since May 2015. Mr. Yang serves as our director since March 2021. Mr. Yang is responsible for human resources, government relations and daily operations of Tuya. Prior to co-founding Tuya, Mr. Yang worked as a business development senior expert at Alibaba Group from April 2011 to May 2015, where he was responsible for developing business opportunities for multiple projects including mobile payment at Alibaba's O2O business and Alibaba Cloud. Mr. Yang received a bachelor's degree in international business and economics from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in the PRC in July 2004.
Tuya Inc currently has 1026 employees.
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