Kun Gao

Kun is Co-Founder and former CEO of Crunchyroll, the world’s largest destination for anime and manga, with more than 10 million subscribers. At Crunchyroll, Kun spearheaded numerous initiatives including content acquisitions, originals, corporate development and monetization.

He is currently the co-founder of GGWP, using AI to fight toxicity in gaming and Forge, a social reward platform for games.

He brings 15 years of experience in consumer media, including founding social mapping service Frappr, product and engineering roles at Slide and HOTorNOT. Kun graduated from U.C. Berkeley with honors B.S. in Electrical Engineer and Computer Science and B.A. in Applied Mathematics in 2004, and was a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon focusing on Database research.