David Hua

Current

VP of Marketing & Co-Founder at Genesis Interactive
Manager at Downtown Harvest

Past

Sales and Trading Analyst at Citigroup
Analyst at MadeinChina

Education

Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus
Beihua University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

David Hua’s Summary

Hua is an entrepreneur, marketer, and catalyst.

Currently, he is the VP of Marketing at Genesis Interactive (GI), a company that he helped found in 2006. In addition, he serves as the manager for an indie band called Downtown Harvest.

GI is launching GotGame, a revolutionary social gaming platform that will change the manner in which online gamers communicate, as well as discover and access content.

GI has raised $1.2M through various angel networks.

Prior to working at GI, Hua, worked in the Latin American Equity Research Sales Department and was a salesman on the Institutional Foreign Exchange desk at Citigroup.

Hua is passionate about business and curious about many aspects of life. He hopes to inspire and learn from those he is connected with while spreading his positive attitude to make things happen.

David Hua’s Specialties:

Grassroots marketing, branding and identity, creative interface design, fund raising, financial analysis, mediator, guerrilla promotions, competitive gamer

David Hua’s Experience

VP of Marketing & Co-Founder

Genesis Interactive

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Revolutionizing the world of gaming...
Manager

Downtown Harvest

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Music industry)

December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)

Manager of Philadelphia based indie band called Downtown Harvest. The sound is a mix between Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Beck, & Nirvana. The genre would be classified as Pop/Rock/Dance Grunge.
Sales and Trading Analyst

Citigroup

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)

July 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Worked on the Latin American Equity Research Sales and Institutional Foreign Exchange Sales Desk.
Analyst

MadeinChina

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)

Marketing Analyst for an Interactive Chinese Advertising Agency. Responsibilities ranged from providing a unique western perspective on their campaigns, designing an interactive flash game for Pepsi, creating brand awareness for Hewlett Packard, and testing flash games prior to launching the various promotional campaigns.

David Hua’s Education

Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus

Bachelor , Finance & International Business , 2000 — 2004

Studied Abroad in:
-- Beijing, China
-- Barcelona, Spain
-- Paris, France

Activities and Societies:

Delta Sigma Phi, Lion Ambassadors, Schreyers Honors College, PSIA, Asian Awareness Association, Outdoors Club, Halo for XBOX
Beihua University

Mandarin 2003 — 2003

Learned conversational Mandarin. Visited the Yunnan and Qingdao Provinces.

Activities and Societies:

Tai Chi, Calligraphy, Photography, and Teaching English

Additional Information

David Hua’s Websites:

David Hua’s Interests:

Listening to various genres of music, skiing & snowboarding, camping, reading, playing poker, cooking (specializing in Asian cuisine and expanding into Italian and Indian foods), running, competing in gaming tournaments (first person shooters & sports), and recreational gaming (Nintendo Wii & XBox360's Guitar Hero), yoga