King Yiu Chu

Current

Product Manager at Nimbuzz.com

Past

Product manager Hotmail & Windows Live Mobile at Microsoft
Internet Manager / Business developer at Trader Classified Media
Media consultant at InteractPoint

Online business development manager at De Breed & Partners
Internet consultant at CCI

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Education

Hogeschool Brabant

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Industry

Online Media

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King Yiu Chu’s Summary

Let's get mobile freedom!

King Yiu Chu’s Specialties:

Mobile-, E-mail-, Viral-, Online Marketing, Internet projectmanagement, Usability design. Business model development / monetization.

King Yiu Chu’s Experience

Product Manager

Nimbuzz.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years )

As Product Manager I'm responsible for the Nimbuzz products, the product roadmap and product strategy.

Nimbuzz is an all in one social communication service which aggregates all major instant messenger networks and social networks in one client. It offers Presence, IM and VoIP and supports more than 1000 handsets.

Nimbuzz also integrates all it's services in Social network sites and offers Community, Presence, IM and VoIP to operators as well (including IMS integration). Since oktober 2008, integration is done in StudiVZ to offer StudiVZ chat on the web and on the mobile.

Nimbuzz has also closed partnerships with RIM (BlackBerry), Toshiba and Spice Mobile to be pre-installed on their handsets and closed deals with more than 17 mobile operators in the world to offer SIP calling.

Nimbuzz is funded by Mangrove Capital (Skype), MIH Group (QQ.com, Mail.ru, GaduGadu) and Holtzbrink Ventures (StudiVZ, Kyte).
Product manager Hotmail & Windows Live Mobile

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Responsible for:
- Windows Live Hotmail
- First rollout of Windows Live Hotmail in the world (NL was pilot country)
- Subscription services (Windows Live partner and advertiser newsletters)
- Windows Live Mobile: WL Messenger, WL Hotmail and WL Spaces on your mobile phone
- Windows Live @ Edu
- Rollout of Windows Live Onecare in NL
Internet Manager / Business developer

Trader Classified Media

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)

February 2004 — March 2006 (2 years 2 months)

Responsible for all internet activities in The Netherlands -viavia.nl, boten.nl, vondst.nl.
Wrote the businessplan and requirement plan for a holiday house classified website Trader worldwide and team member of the international project group "global community/classified website".
Media consultant

InteractPoint

(Online Media industry)

July 2000 — February 2004 (3 years 8 months)

E-mail marketing; SMS marketing; Media consultancy; online business modelling; customers: Mentos, ID&T, @FUN (SBS Broadcasting & Endemol)
Online business development manager

De Breed & Partners

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

September 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 4 months)

De Breed & Partners was an internet incubator and investor in internet companies.
I worked for this company as Manager ECRider.nl and online business developer focused on analysing and consulting on businessplans for new ventures and Het Beloningsonderzoek and Stockscore.nl.
Internet consultant

CCI

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

February 1999 — May 2000 (1 year 4 months)

CCI is a website development company. I was the first employee who was hired by the owner and helped building his business to a succesfull website development company.

I did sales and consultancy for different customers like Hero.nl, Stichting O+A, Unie.nl, PeekandCloppenburg.com, etc...