| Website | yatown.com |
| Blog | blog.pentagoniac.com |
| Stanford University, PhD | 1993 |
| Electrical Engineering | |
| Stanford Univeresity, MS | 1989 |
| Electrical Engineering | |
| U.C. Berkeley, BS | 1988 |
| EE & CS |
Christopher Nguyen is CEO of Yatown, a Neighborhood Social Network service.
Prior to Yatown Christopher was CEO at Bluepulse, a mobile tech start-up. Before that, he worked at Google as Director of Engineering responsible for the operations of Google Apps (GMail, Calendar, etc). He is a recipient of the Google Founders’ Award.
Previously he was founder and Chief Executive Officer of ACTGent Software, where he delivered five generations of a multi-million dollar real-time trading system, which was acquired by SHB Bank in 2005. He was also a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Agenda-Asia, a 400 strong pan-Asia digital presence agency acquired by WPP in 2008.
Earlier, he was a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, where he helped launch their Computer Engineering program. He has also held technical positions at Xerox, Hewlett Packard and Intel. Christopher holds a bachelor’s degree with highest honors in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS and PhD in EE from Stanford University.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Yatown | 8/10 | Angel | $330k | 2 |
