Playdom CEO and leadership

The founding CEO of Playdom, Dan Yue now serves as the company’s Chief Product Officer. In the same ilk as many of the Valley’s leading entrepreneurs,Dan is an interesting character. Prior to Playdom, Dan was employee #1 at Adify, an ad network platform acquired by Cox Enterprises in 2008; founded several wildly unsuccessful technology start-ups; and served as technical consultant to Wynn Design and Development. With a degree in physics from Swarthmore College, Dan uses data-driven insights to understand what players want and deliver it. A lifelong gamer, Dan has played thousands of hours of Final Fantasy 7 and Baldur’s Gate 2, and spent 34 long days as a semi-professional Blackjack player. Dan’s commitment to the player experience runs so deep that he wakes up several times a night to check the performance of our games.

Hands-on lifetime engineer, technical lead, and managerial professional with over 20 years of proven experience successfully creating web-based interactive media, mobile apps, devices, and scalable systems for consumer and enterprise markets at companies from two man startups to the Fortune 100. Effective communicator and collaborator with product designers, sales, marketing, support, and ops. Co-founder and operator of Play On Games and BumpQ sold to Playdom, Inc 1998 and acquired by Disney Interactive.• Games and Simulations in 2D and 3D• Retail E-Commerce Systems• Middleware and Platform Integration• Embedded Devices & Hardware Interfacing• Internet Security• Cloud & Enterprise Architecture• Full-Stack Web and Mobile Application Development• Process & Supply-Chain Modeling & Improvement• Team Building & Program Management• Agile Strategy• Client Relations, Sales Support, & Professional ServicesWith minors in..• HR Performance Management• Computer Vision with TensorFlow and Raspberry Pi• HV Radio and Amplifiers• Astronomy and Space• Guitar & Drums

The founding CEO of Playdom, Dan Yue now serves as the company’s Chief Product Officer. In the same ilk as many of the Valley’s leading entrepreneurs,Dan is an interesting character. Prior to Playdom, Dan was employee #1 at Adify, an ad network platform acquired by Cox Enterprises in 2008; founded several wildly unsuccessful technology start-ups; and served as technical consultant to Wynn Design and Development. With a degree in physics from Swarthmore College, Dan uses data-driven insights to understand what players want and deliver it. A lifelong gamer, Dan has played thousands of hours of Final Fantasy 7 and Baldur’s Gate 2, and spent 34 long days as a semi-professional Blackjack player. Dan’s commitment to the player experience runs so deep that he wakes up several times a night to check the performance of our games.

Hands-on lifetime engineer, technical lead, and managerial professional with over 20 years of proven experience successfully creating web-based interactive media, mobile apps, devices, and scalable systems for consumer and enterprise markets at companies from two man startups to the Fortune 100. Effective communicator and collaborator with product designers, sales, marketing, support, and ops. Co-founder and operator of Play On Games and BumpQ sold to Playdom, Inc 1998 and acquired by Disney Interactive.• Games and Simulations in 2D and 3D• Retail E-Commerce Systems• Middleware and Platform Integration• Embedded Devices & Hardware Interfacing• Internet Security• Cloud & Enterprise Architecture• Full-Stack Web and Mobile Application Development• Process & Supply-Chain Modeling & Improvement• Team Building & Program Management• Agile Strategy• Client Relations, Sales Support, & Professional ServicesWith minors in..• HR Performance Management• Computer Vision with TensorFlow and Raspberry Pi• HV Radio and Amplifiers• Astronomy and Space• Guitar & Drums