Tuoc Luong

CEO / Co-Founder of BodiData, Inc.

Saratoga, California

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Work Experience

  • CEO / Co-Founder

    2016

    BodiData's Long Term Mission is to build the preeminent Global Platform of 3-Dimensional Body Measurements. BodiData's Measure.Match.Manage.™ size-matching solution helps our uniform and retail partners strengthen wearer loyalty and satisfaction. Our solution make it easy for online and offline clothing retailers and uniform partners to help their customers knowledgeably select the best fitting size for a ready-to-wear clothing item. BodiData's Measure.Match.Manage.™ solution significantly reduces clothing returns, the associated reverse logistics costs, and the related environmental consequences, while increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty. We capture fully clothed body measurements with our patented and award winning Kora handheld body scanner or our BodiMap online measurement solutions to create a Bodi-ID profile. We have the only solution that measures an individual in their everyday clothing.

  • Investor, Adviser and BoD

    2006

    Current Investments: Co-Founder / Chairman of the Board, RHEA Technology Investor / Advisor / BoD - nSight Surgical Investor - Lyten, Tibaray, Vita Imaging, Zazzle, Carousell, Gigwalk, Efani Investor / Adviser to CEO - EvaBot Inc, Dreamship, InSync.ai, Silverpush.co, Wordly.ai, Gable.to, and Aitomatic Inc. Past Investment with Exits: Investor - Returnly - acquired by Affirm Holdings for $300M in 2021 Investor / Advisor / Board Member - Arimo (formerly Adatao) - acquired by Panasonic in 2017) Investor / Adviser to CEO - MatchCo (acquired by Shisheido in 2017) Co-Founder / Board Member - Jybe (acquired by Yahoo in 2013) Co-Founder / Board Member - Lookspark (acquired by Yahoo in 2007) Charity Organization: Board of Director, VNHELP

  • CEO

    2014 - 2016

    A developer of innovative body fit solutions and technologies. Through its 3D body scanning booth technology deployed over a couple of years in malls around the USA, Unique has amassed physical body dimension of well over 1 million users and growing.

  • CEO of Shanda Online and SVP Shanda Group, Head of Shanda Innovation

    2011 - 2014

    Shanda Online (SDO) is a wholly own subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Group. SDO is a technology platform company offering many services including User Authentication, Advertizing, and Cloud Computing Services for the China market currently. Shanda Innovation is the Shanda Group's research arm in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Shanghai. its goal is to recruit the top talent for R&D focus in many areas of technology including Search, Cloud Computing, Mobile and User Interactive Designs.

2007 - 2010

  • Senior VP, Search Worldwide

    2007 - 2010

    Responsible for Yahoo! Search worldwide. Search organization is 1000+ Scientists, Engineers and Products people worldwide (SV, India, China, Norway, London, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea). Yahoo Search entails scale and deep science with tens of thousands of servers in data centers (annual 2009 CapEx of 100M+). Co-own the Search revenue with the Sales organization in the regions. Search revenue represents half of Yahoo’s global revenue and the majority of the profits. Search Technology/Product Executive involved in the MSFT-YHOO negotiation from early on to Letter of Intent and Definitive Agreement and steering the Bing transition with Microsoft after the deal was closed. Led Y!Search team to innovate many 1st capabilities in the search industry from Search Assist, SearchPad, and SearchMonkey/. Led Y!Search team to create new eco-system and partnerships around innovative new search service called BOSS (Build Own Search Service) Led Y!Search team to innovate and develop many globalization and local Asian search features that allowed Yahoo to be the #1 Search Engine in most of Asia Pacific (Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong) and neck to neck with Google in South East Asia emerging companies like Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. Joined Yahoo when Yahoo bought Lookspark, Inc. in 2007.

2006 - 2007

  • CTO / VP Engineering

    2006 - 2007

    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.

2002 - 2006

  • Exec VP / CTO

    2002 - 2006

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

2000 - 2001

  • VP Engineering

    2000 - 2001

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

  • General Manager, BackOffice Division and Hosting Services

    1999 - 2000

    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.

1997 - 1999

  • VP, Research

    1997 - 1999

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