User:Davidyong

David K Yong

David Yong was born on December 19, 1969 in Penang, Malaysia. He grew up in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh in Malaysia. He attended high school at Girton College (now known as Girton Grammar School) in Bendigo, Victoria (Australia). A graduate in finance from Deakin University, Australia.

He has worked with Hong Leong Group and Berjaya Group before co-founding an internet services company, ADS Communications, in 1998 with Hon Loo. A private equity company acquired ADS at the height of the dot-com boom in January 2000. He then co-founded Asiaonair.com that became a prominent Internet TV company.

He left Asiaonair in 2002 and founded three other technology companies in content management, mobile video share and AI news filtering. In late 2012, David resigned from the tech companies to spend time with his family and write. He lives in Ontario, Canada.

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