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Alvin Chiang

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Founder & CEO | Bowhead Technology

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Since 2014, Alvin Chiang, CEO & Founder of Bowhead Technology, has been an angel investor in the TMT territory in China and overseas, and also serves as a mentor for a few startup incubators. Inspired by the emerging disruptive technologies and the startups he has been helping with, he is now preparing his own startup, aiming at the IoT (Internet Of Things) area and building a business model that combines smart devices, mobile app, and services.

Alvin joined Renren Inc. (NYSE: RENN) in November 2008 as Chief Marketing (Monetization) Officer responsible for advertising revenue, marketing, PR, and business development. Renren, a real-name-based social network that has been widely known as the equivalent of Facebook in China, went IPO in May 2011 and raised US$1.3 billion. Alvin left Renren in December 2013 to pursue his personal interest and entrepreneurial journey. As a seasoned executive with nearly 15 years of internet and advertising experience, Alvin was the planning director at Yahoo! Taiwan, and the VP of media sales at both NetEase and Alibaba Group before joining Renren. His past career featured entering the forefronts of internet portal, e-commerce, advertising platform, social networking, mobile internet, and achieving breakthrough results in monetization and marketing.

At Renren.com, Alvin built and led the entire ad sales team including brand and SME advertising from less than 100 people to up to 300 people across three regional offices in China, grew the company’s ad revenue from $4 million to the peak of $25 million in 4 years, and through an IPO on NYSE, raised $1.1 billion of capital. On the marketing front, he launched the site rebranding campaign in 2009 when the registered user base was already nearly 90 million. Other innovative acts include an exclusive partnership with Popcap to launch the first global social game "Plants vs Zombies" in 2011, a co-branded credit card issued by the China Merchants Bank in 2012, and one globally pioneer card featuring LBS benefits.

Actively involved in the online marketing and monetization territory and viewed as a creative thinker throughout his career in the Greater China region, Alvin has served as a constant jury member at China’s most influential Internet Advertising Awards from 2005 to the present and has been a frequent guest speaker and panelist at many new media and TMT conferences in the Asia region. In June 2013, Alvin was appointed as a Cyber Lions jury at the Cannes Lions Int’l Festival of Creativity. He has also earned numerous awards and was honored as one of the “Top 20 Marketing People” by New Marketing Magazine in 2006, 2009, and 2010, as well as one of the “Top 100 Influential Marketing People” by Marketing China Magazine in 6 different years. Alvin is also an industry contributor in the fast-arising mobile era. He has served in the MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) in China as the Co-Chair from 2012-2013 and still remains on the honorary board of directors.

Alvin 江志強是一枚互聯網老將，有近16年互聯網從業經驗，其中10年在上市公司擔任高管，包括網易營銷副總裁、阿里巴巴集團副總裁、人人公司首席營銷官；人人上市前將公司轉虧為盈，深度參與在紐約證券交易所的上市。此前也曾擔任雅虎奇摩購物產品經理、貓撲網總經理。從業經驗包括：電子商務、門戶、互聯網社區、廣告平台、社交網絡、移動互聯網等領域。

江先生曾於2012-13期間，擔任 MMA China（全球 MMA 組織的一部分）聯合主席，現任董事；同時於2013年戛納國際創意節60週年擔任互動類評委，也是戛納互動類歷年來第一位中國評委。於2006-2013年期間有六次被《成功營銷》雜誌評為「影響中國100位營銷人物」。

2014年開始成為 TMT 領域天使投資人，投資的項目遍佈中國、矽谷、台灣、以色列。以色列投資的 SCIO 是 2015 CES Last Gadget Standing 的最大贏家。 2015年三月創辦了自己的智能硬件加互聯網服務的創業公司，巨鯨網絡科技，聚焦兒童領域。也活躍於阿里校友組織：阿里邦、前橙會，為阿里人服務。