Tom Leung
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- Greater Seattle Area
- Industry
- Internet
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Tom Leung's Overview
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- Founder and CEO at Yabbly
- Past
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- Senior Vice President, Product at Marchex
- Vice President, Product Management at Marchex
- Senior Business Product Manager at Google
- Business Product Manager at Google
- Director at Trumba
- Product Manager at Trumba
- Product Planner at Windows Live Hotmail
- Business Development Manager at Microsoft Office
- Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Active Media
- Associate Strategy Consultant at Charles River Associates
- Education
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- Harvard Business School
- Bowdoin College
- Recommendations
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47 people have recommended Tom
- Connections
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500+ connections
Tom Leung's Summary
Seasoned executive leader in product, marketing, sales and change management roles at venture-backed tech startups and industry-leading, publicly-traded, technology companies.
Tom Leung's Experience
Senior Vice President, Product
Marchex
Public Company; 201-500 employees; MCHX; Internet industry
January 2011 – March 2012 (1 year 3 months)
Reporting to our President, I was head of Product and responsible for leading and developing Marchex's team of over 20 high-performing product managers, program managers, and UX designers across all product groups as well as charting our overall corporate product strategy and roadmap. Marchex is a 400 person company, publicly traded software company, headquartered in Seattle.
The stuff we worked on included:
-An award-winning SMB advertising solution that manages >$200M in SMB ad budget annually and includes exclusive strategic partnerships with Intuit, AT&T, Yellow Pages Group, Cox Media, and NBC Local.
-The #1 call analytics platform for local online advertising campaigns powering ad programs like AT&T Interactive, Yodle, Marchex pay-for-call, and Yellow Pages Group Canada tracking, transcribing, and analyzing more than 10M minutes of inbound phone leads per month.
-A Pay-for-Call ad network business with over 100 publishers such as Telenav, White Pages, Metro PCS, and Skype that drives inbound phone leads with minimal spend on SEM.
-An automated ad-funded directory assistance service offered direct to consumers through 1-800-Free-411 and white label offering with major mobile and voice partners such as Tracfone, Boost Mobile, MagicJack, Comcast, and Verizon.
-An award-winning SMB online presence management tool (#1 paid solution in its category) that scours over 8,000 web sources for information about your business, your competition, trends, alerts, etc. to monitor, analyze, and enhance your business' overall online presence.
-An experimental free calling plugin enabling multi-modal connections to businesses from any web page. www.LetsFirefly.com
-Other stuff that's just as cool but in stealth mode...
Vice President, Product Management
Marchex
Public Company; 201-500 employees; MCHX; Internet industry
September 2009 – December 2010 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for Product Management of Marchex's Small Business Solutions group.
Senior Business Product Manager
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; GOOG; Internet industry
May 2008 – September 2009 (1 year 5 months)
Product management, business strategy, product strategy, marketing, partnership, and sales initiatives for Google Website Optimizer, AdWords, AdSense, and Analytics. Last product I led was Google Campaign Insights (http://tinyurl.com/2czzruv), a state of the art display advertising effectiveness analytics product sponsored by and accountable to CEO, founders, and Operating Committee at Google. Completed Google leadership training program for high potential managers.
Business Product Manager
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; GOOG; Internet industry
December 2006 – May 2008 (1 year 6 months)
Website Optimizer is the #1 content optimization tool on the web and is available in 22 languages and enables on-demand AB and multivariate testing and has over 15 global partners. Website Optimizer also won internal recognition as one of the "Top 10 Product" awards.
I was the lead PM for the beta as well as over a dozen subsequent releases and was accountable for the overall performance of the Website Optimizer business. I led the Website Optimizer Core team which was comprised of 15 functional areas including engineering, design, QA, localization, support, marketing, sales, PR, writers, business development, legal, webmaster, ops, etc. I also worked on projects related to Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and Google AdSense.
Director
Trumba
September 2006 – December 2006 (4 months)
Trumba was founded by the creators of PageMaker and Visio and funded with $13M from Kleiner Perkins, August Capital, Oak Investment Partners. The original vision was to provide a connected online calendar exchange for families, churches, schools, and other community organizations.
As a Director, I reported to our CFO and was responsible for creating the company's first inside sales organization and designed and implemented the sales processes, technology, and quotas from scratch.
Product Manager
Trumba
October 2005 – September 2006 (1 year)
I was charged with leading our product development partnerships with high-profile enterprise customers such as the New York Times online as well as product management of our small business offerings where I reported to the VP of Marketing.
Product Planner
Windows Live Hotmail
August 2004 – September 2005 (1 year 2 months)
I was the lead business owner for Hotmail's largest engineering initiative since Microsoft originally acquired it in 1997.
I led the product planning and business strategy for the complete redesign of the service which provided email services to over 200M consumers in over 30 languages. The redesign started after Gmail launched and included radically expanded storage, more reliable back end architecture, and completely new, more responsive Ajax front end.
Co-authored multiple patent applications around online advertising and email delivery. Helped drive ethnographic research in Europe. Product won PC Mag Editor's Choice award in the web email category. Recipient of Gold Star award for exceptional performance and for superior potential for leadership.
Business Development Manager
Microsoft Office
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry
July 2002 – 2004 (2 years)
Office Online is the hosted service that has been integrated with Microsoft Office since Office 2003 and includes online user assistance, downloadable media, templates, and partner services.
I led the development of Office Online's partner strategy including the Office Marketplace and 3rd party content partnerships in addition to general business development support for Microsoft Office product teams such as Excel, Access, OneNote, and Project. Reported to the General Manager.
Also led creation of patented 3rd party content acquisition system in colaboration with engineering team in Dublin.
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Active Media
1999 – 2001 (2 years)
Active Media was a venture-backed startup in Asia focusing on providing consumers streaming video content and advertisers with multi-channel marketing solutions (e.g. web, POS, mobile, print, billboards).
I was a co-founder and managed a team of 22 employees from engineering, ops, design, sales, and content development. Personally closed advertising clients such as MasterCard, Canon, and strategic partners such as McCann-Erickson. Drove product development of in house and private label CMS, streaming video, streaming music, photo galleries, forums, chat, and webmail.
Associate Strategy Consultant
Charles River Associates
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CRAI; Management Consulting industry
September 1996 – June 1999 (2 years 10 months)
CRA is a publicly-traded consulting firm specializing in highly complex engagements for Fortune 500 companies and governments requiring the firm's expertise in advanced business analytics and economic analysis.
I performed research, analysis, and number crunching for Phd economists. Consulting engagements focused on game theory, auction theory, and pricing strategies for Fortune 500 corporations. Promoted from Research Analyst to Associate.
Tom Leung's Skills & Expertise
Tom Leung's Patents
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Searching based on messages
- United States Patent 7,730,081
- Issued June 1, 2010
Inventors: Tom LeungConduct automatic web searches within your email inbox UX in a side panel based on content of the email you're reading.
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Delivery confirmation for e-mail
- United States Patent Application 20070136430
- Filed June 14, 2007
Inventors: Tom LeungSend an email and have the option to require the recipient confirm receipt in order for him to read the contents of the email.
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Advertisement refresh rules for network applications
- United States Patent Application 20060294258
- Filed December 28, 2006
Inventors: Tom LeungRefresh ads in an ajax app based on user actions, time, or some combination.
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Automated system for content acquisition using a web portal
- United States Patent Application 20060047531
- Filed March 2, 2006
Inventors: Tom LeungSystem to allow automated legal protection and storage of crowdsourced templates for an application.
Tom Leung's Education
Harvard Business School
MBA, Marketing, Strategy
1999 – 2003
Activities and Societies: Section Senator, Admissions Ambassador, Co-Chair of Career Teams, Co-Founder of HBS4A, Student Association Award recipient. Took 3 year leave of absence to co-found overseas startup, Active Media, from 1999-2001. Executive Education: "Change Leadership" at Google in 2009. "Design Thinking Boot Camp" at Stanford d.school in 2010. "Breakthrough Insights" at HBS in 2011.
Bowdoin College
AB, History, Economics
1992 – 1996
Accelerated summer programs at Stanford, Georgetown, and Beijing University.
Activities and Societies: Student Senate President, Founder PCG, magna cum laude, James Bowdoin Scholar, James Bland Award winner.
Tom Leung's Additional Information
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Technology product development case commentary featured in April 2011 edition of Harvard Business Review (page 130).
Featured online marketing expert and company representative on MSNBC's "Your Biz", "Breakfast Television" (Vancouver), presenter or panelist at over a dozen digital marketing industry conferences, quoted in over 50 news articles, named contributor to two published books on online marketing.
Precinct caucus speaker and elected County delegate in 2008 presidential primary.
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