Chris Szeto

Current

• Senior Director of Products at Meebo

Past

• Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Messenger at Yahoo!
• Senior Product Manager, Google Talk at Google
• Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger at Yahoo!

• Software Enginner, Yahoo! Messenger at Yahoo!

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Education

• Yale University
• Yale University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Chris Szeto’s Summary

Product Manager with over 7 years experience in the online communications space, specializing in the field of instant messaging. I have engineering and product management experience in building and managing downloadable Windows client and cross-platform web-based products.

Chris Szeto’s Specialties:

Product Management; Product Design; Client-Server Architecture; Software Design and Development

Chris Szeto’s Experience

• Senior Director of Products

  Meebo

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

• Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Messenger

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 9 months)

• Senior Product Manager, Google Talk

  Google

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  November 2004 — April 2005 (6 months)

• Product Manager, Yahoo! Messenger

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  July 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 5 months)

• Software Enginner, Yahoo! Messenger

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  August 2000 — July 2003 (3 years )

Chris Szeto’s Education

• Yale University

  MS , Computer Science , August 1999 — May 2000

• Yale University

  BS , Computer Science , August 1995 — May 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi

Additional Information

Chris Szeto’s Honors:

Yahoo! Superstar Award, with Distinction, 2002