John Yen Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, US

StoryJumper is a leading Education AI platform that makes it easy for students, teachers, and parents to become Published Authors who create a lasting impact on the world. www.storyjumper.com

• Founded a social collaboration company and created the following products using user-centered design and Lean Startup principles:
• litbit, a mobile social app for collaborative storytelling (“Twitter for Stories”). Lowers the barrier for creative writing by allowing users to collaboratively write stories one bit at a time.
• ThoughtsandPrayers, a crowdsourcing site that amplifies emotional support and closes the feedback loop for those in need. Based on studies that show that people heal better when they know others are praying for them..
• 21 Dads, a social parenting site that gamified fatherhood for a new generation of dads. Users earned points by asking questions, providing advice, completing activities, and sharing best practices.
• Concentration2, an HTML5 mobile educational game for strengthening memory. Match pairs of photos taken with your phone’s native camera. Won 2nd place at the AppDev Mobile Hackathon.I also ran engineering and coded.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Led the product management of social media products that reached over 20 million monthly uniques.
• Social TV Fan Pages, the first product to wrap a social experience around Fancast.com, which became the #1 non-portal TV site on the web (comScore June 2009).
• Social eCards, a new style of greeting cards powered by your social network. Increased monthly uniques by 60% and revenues by 90%.
• Universal Address Book, a data platform for personal contacts strategically used across Comcast’s web and telephony products.

San Jose, CA, US

• Co-founded the industry’s first network-integrated, enterprise content delivery product line. Managed a product team that grew annualized revenues from $0 to $100M in 2 years. Defined hardware platform and software.
• Spearheaded cross-company marketing launches (e.g. Application Intelligence, Data Center, and Voice integration launches), resulting in over $1B in revenue. Selected to be a primary spokesperson to industry analysts.

San Jose, CA, US

Structured and negotiated merger & acquisition, investment, and joint development deals with VXtreme (board observer through acquisition by Microsoft), Clarity Wireless, DevSoft, and Mapletree Networks.

• Structured complex financial analyses and board presentations for mergers & acquisitions in the software, networking, and biotechnology sectors.
• Advised executive management clients during IPO roadshows and S-1 prospectus drafting sessions.

Education record

M.S., Electrical Engineering

B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science