Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO Primary Organization Giphy
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of GIPHY. His latest startups include Artspace, a leading ecommerce destination for contemporary art, The Fridge, a private social network acquired by Google, and General Displays a GE venture developing GE's next generation of HDTVs.
He has also directed media technology for MTV, NBC, Comcast,
Charter, and managed future technologies for Paul Allen's R&D lab. He was one of the early architects of interactive television and started his career as a hardware engineer at Intel.
He was named on Business Insider's Top 25 most influential technologists in New York and has degrees in philosophy, electrical/computer engineering, and graphic design.
