As AvePoint’s Executive Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors, Kai Gong facilitates the operations and deliberations of the Board and offers guidance and strategic direction to our senior leadership team. Previously the Chief Executive Officer and co-CEO, Kai co-founded AvePoint in 2001. Since AvePoint’s founding, Kai’s technical experience and stewardship have helped the company grow and deliver a multitude of SaaS and data management solutions to customers.
Prior to AvePoint, Kai was a software engineer at Bell Labs at Lucent Technologies and Johnson & Johnson. He earned graduate degrees in computer science and computer engineering from Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences respectively, and an undergraduate degree in electoral and electronics engineering from Dalian University of Technology.