CertiK CEO and leadership

Zhaozhong Ni was formerly an engineering lead at Google and HP / 3PAR and a researcher at Microsoft Research. He is an expert in systems software and formal verification and has extensive experience in building operating systems kernels and mission-critical enterprise systems. Dr. Ni was a founding member of gVisor, Google’s new security focused OS with cloud-scale production. He holds multiple patents on distributed storage systems. He obtained his BS from Tsinghua University and his PhD in Computer Science from Yale University.

Kevin has 20+ years of experience in global TMT (Technology, Media, and Telecom) prior to CertiK. Kevin was a founding member of FreeWheel (a Comcast company), he held various leadership positions there, including Vice President of Product and Vice President of Engineering. He also served as GM, China, and CTO, ads of iflix. Before that, Kevin was an early member of Youku.com, Head of R&D, ORT. Kevin holds a BS degree from CAU, an MBA degree from CUC, and is a Master of Engineering candidate at UPenn.

Muhan Zou serves as the founding member of CertiK from company inception, where he contributes with both his engineering abilities and team leadership. Muhan has years of experience in designing and developing enterprise level SaaS products. Prior to joining, he worked as the engineering lead at Comcast to monetize large-scale ads and settop-box/linear raw data into business insights deliverables. He also worked at Oracle where he built the social cloud platform as a Full Stack Engineer after graduation at Yale University.

Yaxin (Jason) Cao has held various senior leadership roles in IoT, semiconductor, and wireless technology companies in both U.S. and China. He was formerly the CEO of Shenzhen Biomedical Instruments, Vice President of Tsinghua Unigroup, and Director of Broadcom. He had close to 20 years of industry experience across multiple functions, including engineering, production management, strategic business development, and operations. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, and B.S. from Tsinghua University.