Tuoc Luong
Founder of BodiData
Tuoc Luong
Founder of BodiData
Saratoga, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO / Co-Founder
2016 - Current
BodiData's Long Term Mission is to build the preeminent Global Platform of 3-Dimensional Body Measurements. BodiData's Measure.Match.Manage.™ size-matching solution helps our uniform and retail partners strengthen wearer loyalty and satisfaction. Our solution make it easy for online and offline clothing retailers and uniform partners to help their customers knowledgeably select the best fitting size for a ready-to-wear clothing item. BodiData's Measure.Match.Manage.™ solution significantly reduces clothing returns, the associated reverse logistics costs, and the related environmental consequences, while increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty. We capture fully clothed body measurements with our patented and award winning Kora handheld body scanner or our BodiMap online measurement solutions to create a Bodi-ID profile. We have the only solution that measures an individual in their everyday clothing.
Investor, Adviser and BoD
2006
Current Investments: Co-Founder / Chairman of the Board, RHEA Technology Investor / Advisor / BoD - nSight Surgical Investor - Lyten, Tibaray, Vita Imaging, Zazzle, Carousell, Gigwalk, Efani Investor / Adviser to CEO - EvaBot Inc, Dreamship, InSync.ai, Silverpush.co, Wordly.ai, Gable.to, and Aitomatic Inc. Past Investment with Exits: Investor - Returnly - acquired by Affirm Holdings for $300M in 2021 Investor / Advisor / Board Member - Arimo (formerly Adatao) - acquired by Panasonic in 2017) Investor / Adviser to CEO - MatchCo (acquired by Shisheido in 2017) Co-Founder / Board Member - Jybe (acquired by Yahoo in 2013) Co-Founder / Board Member - Lookspark (acquired by Yahoo in 2007) Charity Organization: Board of Director, VNHELP
CEO
2014 - 2016
A developer of innovative body fit solutions and technologies. Through its 3D body scanning booth technology deployed over a couple of years in malls around the USA, Unique has amassed physical body dimension of well over 1 million users and growing.
CEO of Shanda Online and SVP Shanda Group, Head of Shanda Innovation
2011 - 2014
Shanda Online (SDO) is a wholly own subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Group. SDO is a technology platform company offering many services including User Authentication, Advertizing, and Cloud Computing Services for the China market currently. Shanda Innovation is the Shanda Group's research arm in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Shanghai. its goal is to recruit the top talent for R&D focus in many areas of technology including Search, Cloud Computing, Mobile and User Interactive Designs.
Senior VP, Search Worldwide
2007 - 2010
Responsible for Yahoo! Search worldwide. Search organization is 1000+ Scientists, Engineers and Products people worldwide (SV, India, China, Norway, London, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Korea). Yahoo Search entails scale and deep science with tens of thousands of servers in data centers (annual 2009 CapEx of 100M+). Co-own the Search revenue with the Sales organization in the regions. Search revenue represents half of Yahoo’s global revenue and the majority of the profits. Search Technology/Product Executive involved in the MSFT-YHOO negotiation from early on to Letter of Intent and Definitive Agreement and steering the Bing transition with Microsoft after the deal was closed. Led Y!Search team to innovate many 1st capabilities in the search industry from Search Assist, SearchPad, and SearchMonkey/. Led Y!Search team to create new eco-system and partnerships around innovative new search service called BOSS (Build Own Search Service) Led Y!Search team to innovate and develop many globalization and local Asian search features that allowed Yahoo to be the #1 Search Engine in most of Asia Pacific (Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong) and neck to neck with Google in South East Asia emerging companies like Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia. Joined Yahoo when Yahoo bought Lookspark, Inc. in 2007.
CTO / VP Engineering
2006 - 2007
CTO and head of Engineering at Zazzle.com. Zazzle is at the intersection of personalization, web 2.0 community / user generated content and e-commerce. Zazzle provides a customization marketplace of digital images.
Exec VP / CTO
2002 - 2006
I run all the technology groups at Ask Jeeves: Engineering, Operations, IT/MIS, and Business IS
VP Engineering
2000 - 2001
Engineering executive for this startup. Eventually sold to Ask Jeeves.
General Manager, BackOffice Division and Hosting Services
1999 - 2000
Ran BackOffice development as well as Microsoft Megaservice (entry into ASP Hosting Services). Left because tire of commute and family didn't want to relocate.
VP, Research
1997 - 1999
Ran research building next generation technology platform for the Baan Company.