Brian  Wong,

Brian Wong,

Founder & CEO at Kiip
New York, United States

About me

Brian Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Kiip (pronounced “keep”), a category-creating mobile rewards network that is redefining mobile advertising through an innovative platform that leverages “moments of achievement” in games and apps to simultaneously benefit users, developers and advertisers. Backed by American Express, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, Relay Ventures, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, and others, the company has raised $15.4 million in funding to date. Kiip has been listed by Forbes as one of the 4 Hot Online Ad Companies to Watch, Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World, and been named to the Dow Jones FasTech50 List.

Called the youngest person to ever receive venture capital funding by CNBC and The Wall Street Journal, Brian received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia at age 18, after skipping four K-12 grades. He has been recognized with many awards for his accomplishments and leadership, including: Business Insider’s Top 25 Under 25 in Silicon Valley, 30 Under 30 in Advertising and 18 Most Important People in Mobile Advertising; Forbes’ 30 under 30 three times; Mashable’s Top 5 Entrepreneurs to Watch; iMedia 25; and the AdAge Creativity Top 50.

Before starting Kiip, Brian led key publisher and tech partnerships at the social news website Digg.com, where he accelerated the company’s mobile presence by launching the Digg Android mobile app.

Positions

Founder and CEO
kiip
July 2010 - Present (14 years 5 months)
Co-founder
Aer Marketing Inc.
June 2008 - 2010 (1 year 7 months)
Strategy, direction, and business development for a usability design start up.
Business Development - Partner Relations
Digg
January 2010 - June 2010 (5 months)
Developing strategic partnerships for the world's most awesome social news website. Launched the Digg android mobile app.
Founder & CEO
Rocketkick
August 2009 - June 2010 (10 months)
Visionary-er, idea guy, design guy, iPhone guy. Helping bring the first DIVE app to market, Pigelator.
Founder & CEO
Followformation.com
June 2009 - June 2010 (1 year)
Helping launch and build tools that help automate social media enlightenment for newcomers.Followformation's debut month was covered by Mashable, Fast Company, The Examiner, The Huffington Post, The Vancouver Sun, Killerstartups, The Georgia Straight, Techvibes, and more.Designed and launched an iPhone app extension of the site as an app that live updates to specialty categories that we push to the app - allowing time-sensitive lists and groups to be updated and changed.

Education

BCom

2005 - 2009 (4 years)

BCom

2008 (1 year)
Exchange

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