Tuoc Luong

Current

• Senior VP, Search Worldwide at Yahoo!

Past

• Founder / CEO at Lookspark, Inc.
• CTO / VP Engineering at Zazzle.com
• Exec VP / CTO at Ask Jeeves

• VP, Enigneering at Octopus Software
• General Manager, BackOffice Division and Hosting Services at Microsoft Corporation
• VP, Research at Baan Company
• VP, Engineering at Aurum Software
• VP, Delphi Product Line at Borland Intl
• Director, Advanced Technology at Pyramid Corporation
• Manager, Asian Development at Oracle Corporation
• Manager, Internationalization at Informix Software

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Education

• U.C. Berkeley
• University of Santa Clara

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Tuoc Luong’s Experience

• Senior VP, Search Worldwide

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Responsible for Yahoo! Search worldwide. On a global basis, management for all Y!Search Technology and Products including web search worldwide, internal vertical properties search technology and Delicious product.

• Founder / CEO

  Lookspark, Inc.

  (Internet industry)

  May 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  LookSpark is a fashion social network community that connects real people interested in personal expression and style. LookSpark members express themselves by creating, voting on, commenting on, and sharing "Sparks". Unlike most fashion sites that focus on the opinions of fashion pros, LookSpark takes a refreshing approach by creating a dialogue between real people about what matters to them in fashion. Bought by Yahoo.

• CTO / VP Engineering

  Zazzle.com

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  May 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 7 months)

  CTO and head of Engineering at Zazzle.com. Zazzle is at the intersection of personalization, web 2.0 community / user generated content and e-commerce. Zazzle provides a customization marketplace of digital images.

• Exec VP / CTO

  Ask Jeeves

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; askj; Internet industry)

  February 2002 — April 2006 (4 years 3 months)

  I run all the technology groups at Ask Jeeves: Engineering, Operations, IT/MIS, and Business IS

• VP, Enigneering

  Octopus Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 10 months)

  Engineering executive for this startup. Eventually sold to Ask Jeeves.

• General Manager, BackOffice Division and Hosting Services

  Microsoft Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)

  January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)

  Ran BackOffice development as well as Microsoft Megaservice (entry into ASP Hosting Services). Left because tire of commute and family didn't want to relocate.

• VP, Research

  Baan Company

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; baan; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  Ran research building next generation technology platform for the Baan Company.

• VP, Engineering

  Aurum Software

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; aurm; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

  Engineering executive for startup that went public and then got bought by the Baan Company.

• VP, Delphi Product Line

  Borland Intl

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; borl; Computer Software industry)

  1992 — 1996 (4 years )

  Ran half of Borland Engineering including Delphi, BDE, ReportSmith and Interbase product line. Also ran all of Intl development for Borland.

• Director, Advanced Technology

  Pyramid Corporation

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years )

  In charge of advanced technology including micro-kernel, compiler systems, high availability, ...

• Manager, Asian Development

  Oracle Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; orcl; Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1990 (1 year )

  In charge of all Asian development for Oracle.

• Manager, Internationalization

  Informix Software

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ifmx; Computer Software industry)

  1983 — 1989 (6 years )

  Did everything there. Employee #18 in startup through public company at 1400 people. Developed many of the original software including 1 of 3 people that developed original Informix-Turbo.

Tuoc Luong’s Education

• U.C. Berkeley

  Bachelor's , Computer Science , 1979 — 1983

• University of Santa Clara

  Master's , Engineering Management