Hong is CEO and Founder of Polkast. He is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully co-founded and built Memeo and Visto (now Good Technology). For the past 20 years Hong has been active in media management, cloud computing, networking and mobile software, bringing to bear a unique perspective for innovation and execution. He is a fanatic about simplicity, usability and security. He has 18 patents to his name.
Bui was CoFounder and Board Member of Memeo, where he was the CEO from 2003-2010. Memeo has over 40 million customers and 100,000 businesses clients. Partners and distributors include Sony, Google, Seagate, Western Digital, SupportSoft, and Netgear.
Hong is a consumer software veteran with over two decades of experience leading and developing technology for top consumer brands that focus on usability and mass market acceptance such as Amazon.com, Visto.com, JavaSoft, and Apple.
While at Amazon.com, Hong’s division was the driver for development of their award winning consumer shopping experience used by millions each day. His division also helped develop Amazon’s cloud platform that has been a model of worldwide scalability.
Prior to Amazon.com, Hong co‐founded Visto/Good and was instrumental to creating widely accepted mobile computing technology to compete with the Blackberry (RIM paid $267 for patent infringement that he co‐authored).
At JavaSoft, he is credited with development of the Java Servlet standard that has since been adopted industry wide.
Hong spent 7 years at Apple where he led teams to develop highly regarded workgroup software solutions and plug-and-play networking technology that is today’s standard for consumer
Bui was CoFounder and Board Member of Memeo, where he was the CEO from 2003-2010. Memeo has over 40 million customers and 100,000 businesses clients. Partners and distributors include Sony, Google, Seagate, Western Digital, SupportSoft, and Netgear.
Hong is a consumer software veteran with over two decades of experience leading and developing technology for top consumer brands that focus on usability and mass market acceptance such as Amazon.com, Visto.com, JavaSoft, and Apple.
While at Amazon.com, Hong’s division was the driver for development of their award winning consumer shopping experience used by millions each day. His division also helped develop Amazon’s cloud platform that has been a model of worldwide scalability.
Prior to Amazon.com, Hong co‐founded Visto/Good and was instrumental to creating widely accepted mobile computing technology to compete with the Blackberry (RIM paid $267 for patent infringement that he co‐authored).
At JavaSoft, he is credited with development of the Java Servlet standard that has since been adopted industry wide.
Hong spent 7 years at Apple where he led teams to develop highly regarded workgroup software solutions and plug-and-play networking technology that is today’s standard for consumer
Sun Microsytem Department Manager 1995 – 1996 (1 year) Pioneered the Java Enterprise Servlet Architecture, which became the industry standard for server-side development and was honored by Byte, PC Week, and LAN Times magazines. |
Apple Computer Sr. Manager, Architect, Developer 1987 – 1995 (8 years) Led technical teams to develop a range of key products including Advanced Server Workgroup Solutions, AppleTalk, Mac OS 7.x.x/6.x.x, AppleShare, Distributed Computing Framework for multiple OS environments. |
Good, Inc. (Visto)
Co-Founder and VP Product Development 1996 – 1998 (2 years) Co-founded Visto/Good, a company that provided complete, secure, and cost-effective access to corporate e-mail over a broad array of devices. Acted as its COO in its first year. Oversaw all company functions including the development of business plans and product plans. Directed the completion of the Visto Briefcase product from conceptualization to shipment. Visto was honored as one of the top ten startups by Wired magazine. |
Amazon.com
Sr. Director of e-Store Development and Cloud Platform 1998 – 2002 (4 years) Was responsible for the development of new stores, user experiences and scaling of e-commerce platform. Matched merchandizing strategies for Amazon.com offerings |
Memeo Inc. CEO and Founder 2003 – 2010 (7 years 8 months) Memeo offers software products and services that help individuals and businesses manage their digital contents across computers, media appliances, and mobile devices. |