Meet our team
Dennis "Thresh" Fong - Founder & CEO
Dennis is a successful serial entrepreneur and celebrity in the gaming world. Dennis previously co-founded Xfire (http://www.xfire.com), an instant messenger for gamers that grew to over seven million users in three years and was acquired by MTV Networks for $102 million dollars in April 2006. Before Xfire, Dennis co-founded Lithium Technologies (http://www.lithium.com), a leading provider of enterprise-level communities for companies such as Dell, Sony, AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Nintendo, Symantec, etc. Dennis was also the founder & CEO of Gamers.com, having raised $13 million in financing for the company in 2000 and led it to the position as the #1 independent games portal as rating by Nielsen NetRatings.
Dennis, a.k.a. "Thresh", was deemed the "Michael Jordan of Videogames" by the Wall Street Journal, a "Top 20 entrepreneur under 35" by Red Herring, and once won a Ferrari in a Quake tournament.
Patrick Li
Patrick was most recently a Senior Software Engineer at Google, where he played an instrumental role in launching 50+ products such as Writely, Google Finance, Google Video, and Orkut. Prior to joining Google, Patrick worked as the Tech Lead for the backend trading systems at E*TRADE Financial. He was also an early partner at Digital Rights Agency, where he designed and implemented a scalable song management and billing system acquired by Digital Music Group.
Patrick's passion for online gaming dates back over a decade ago where he was Dennis Fong's Quake teammate and was regarded as the #2 Quake player in the world, winning numerous team tournaments. Patrick was also the Lead Designer of GXMod, a widely popular, award winning Quake 2 enhancement.
John Song
John is an all-around talented technologist with over ten years of experience in the software industry. Most recently, John was the Lead Architect and part of the founding team at Yahoo! Local. At Yahoo, he was involved in the design, implementation, and operation of all backend systems and was intimately involved in all aspects of Yahoo! Local's releases. John has also held Principle Engineer/Lead Architect positions at Liberate, Microsoft, and HP and has wide-breadth of knowledge ranging from hardware design, OS kernel, networking protocol, and application server technology to front-end engineering and advanced Javascript/CSS.
John is also a successful entrepreneur, having been the Co-Founder and VP of Engineering of a successful startup which was acquired for $50 million in 2002.
Norman Yee
Norm has over a decade of experience building web applications and was most recently a Sr. Web Engineer at Adobe Systems. If you've ever downloaded Adobe Reader or an update to Adobe software, you've likely come across some of Norm's work. Prior to Adobe, Norm also worked at Walmart.com, Gamers.com (with Dennis), NBC Internet/Snap.com, and CNET.
Norm was also a co-founder & principal architect of an online magazine that was successfully acquired in 2006.
Thomas Kwan
Thomas is a seasoned engineer in security, directory and messaging technologies. He has more than 15 years of proven experience in backend development.
He was a lead architect in Red Hat's directory and security group responsible for designing and implementing a suite of identity management software that is being deployed in mission critical sites including Department of Defense and AOL. He has held Principal Software Engineer positions at Sun Microsystems, AOL, Netscape.
Thomas also co-founded a company where he had written the first Java interface to LDAP. The company was later acquired by Netscape.