About

Bin (Tony) Zhao is the founder of Agora, Inc. and has served as its executive Director, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since founding the company in November 2013. He is primarily responsible for the company's overall strategy, business development, operations and management, and concurrently holds directorships in certain other Group members, including Agora Lab.

Mr. Zhao has deep technology expertise with more than 30 years of experience in the software and cloud-services industry. He holds a bachelor's degree in radio and electronics from Peking University in the PRC, earned in July 1992.

Roles

Agora, Inc.
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer · Current role
2013–present
JOYY Inc. (formerly YY Inc.), NASDAQ: JOYY
Chief Technology Officer; Director · Served as chief technology officer of the video-based social network from October 2008 to December 2013 and as a director from December 2009 to March 2015.
2008-2013 (CTO); 2009-2015 (Director)
NeoTasks, LLC
Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer · Founded a company providing peer-to-peer streaming video solutions and served as its chairman and CTO.
2004-2008
WebEx Communications Inc.
Senior Engineer · Responsible for developing audio and video calling functions and designing backend architecture for the video-conferencing and online-meeting software company.
1997-2004
YY, Inc.
Chief Technology Officer · Served as CTO of the video-based social network before founding Agora.
2008-2013

Also at Agora, Inc.

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