Our Team
Our Founders
David Guo
Co-Founder, CEO, Director
David Guo (Yaoqi Guo) brings over 25 years of software and game development, network security, UX, game theory and API design expertise to his role at WON INC.
David's passion for technology started when he was in high school at 1993, selling a multimedia management software system to GuangZhou Southern TV Corporation. In 1998 before he graduated university, David created the famed Skynet firewall, the most popular consumer firewall in China at the time with tens of millions of internet users protected by it. In 2004, he co-founded one of the largest virtual currency exchange platforms in the world, facilitating millions of transactions and generating hundreds of millions in value by 2005.
David has co-led the design, development and publishing of multiple products such as: Skynet Firewall (1998), MyIM (2000), Virtual Currency Exchange (2004) Evony: Age I (2009), Evony: Age II(2010), Tynon (2012), Digisocial (2012), Hi (2013), Heroes Charge (2015), Evony: The King's Return(2016) and Heroes Arena (2017).
Lu Lu
Co-Founder, Company Chairperson
Lu Lu brings over 10 years of serial entrepreneurship, creating multiple successful startups in the digital entertainment, instant messaging, publishing and high tech industries within the United States. Lu possesses a Bachelor of Design from Parsons School of Design.
Lu started her first company in 2009 and has been involved in leading and managing the design, development and publishing of high quality mobile and online applications such as: Evony: Age I (2009), Evony: Age II (2010), Tynon (2012), Digisocial (2012), Hi (2013), Heroes Charge (2015), Evony: The King’s Return (2016) and Heroes Arena (2017).
During her tenure as CEO over multiple companies, Lu has managed diverse teams with hundreds of developers globally reporting to her with a combined user base of hundreds of million users worldwide. Her published products have won a dozen awards within the industry such as Pocket Gamer's Top 50 Developer for 2015.
Engineering
Daywen Le, Cloud SRE Engineer
Daywen helps ensure sure that WON’s services, both internal and externally- visible systems have reliability, rock solid uptime to meet our users’ needs and quick improvement while being responsible for capacity, performance and scalability.
Daywen holds a MSc Computer Networking from Santa Clara University and an MBA from CALMAT.
People Operations
Julie Le, Human Resources Specialist
Julie is accountable for delivering excellent employee experiences for People Operations team on recruitment, HR, payroll, benefits, mobility, on-boarding and all other facets of HR. Julie strongly focuses on delivery of internal customer happiness, collaborates with leadership to develop effective communications, promotes morale and achieves company-wide goals while shepherding OKRs.
Julie is experience in working with international teams in different industries such as staffing, telecommunication and retails. Her focus at WON is to help our team continue expanding to grow a strong international team and to build a successful business globally.
Julie holds a BA in International Business from San Jose State University.