Mr. Yiran Xu

Council Member Biography

Alex Yiran Xu is an M&A and Strategy Director at Giant Interactive, an online game developer and operator. Previously, he was a Game Director at Realnetworks, Inc., a video and music technology solution, game publishing and rich media content provider. He was responsible for managing game business operations for China and global product services. He was also responsible for studying and providing research reports, including MMO and Advanced casual game and in-game AD. He is experienced in MMOG, casual game development and operation, product outsourcing, secondary market for game items, game portals, in-game advertising, and user generated content related projects. He is also experienced in early stage venture capital investments in a mobile game company, a game outsourcing company, a casual game portal, and a second life China project. Prior, he was a Product and Business Development Manager of Games at Sohu.com, and was responsible for licensing games from Korea, Japan, and China, and M&A of 17173 and potentially game developers. He was also responsible for building the development team for SOHU, which developed the game TLBB. He has over 14 years of experiences in the Chinese game market. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2008 - Unspecified

Strategy Director, Giant Interactive Group

2007 - 2008

Business Development, ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.

2005 - 2008

Game Director, REALNETWORKS, INC.

2002 - 2003

VP, Kele8.com

Unspecified - 2005

Product and Business Development Manager of Games, Sohu, Inc.