HYSTA Annual Awards

HYSTA Innovation Award

Steve Chen Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, YouTube

 Steve Chen is Chief Technology Officer of YouTube and co-founded the company in 2005 after he and Chad Hurley resolved to provide a more simple way to share videos online. Steve has been instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon and helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion less than a year after launching the site. As the company's key technologist, Steve is credited with developing the company's massive data centers and helping build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination and one of the most popular Web sites on the Internet today. He oversees all areas of both engineering and product development, including managing site operations, and developing features and services that are compelling and easy to use for everyone. Since the rise in popularity of YouTube, the site has been awarded "Best Invention of the Year" by Time magazine and was the first Web site to receive "Entertainer of the Year" by Entertainment Weekly. Both Chad and Steve have received several prestigious honors and acknowledgements from the business and entertainment communities including: Business 2.0's "50 Most Influential People," GQ's "Men of the Year," and Fortune's "Most Powerful People in Business." Before YouTube, Steve was one of the first product engineers at PayPal. He led development efforts and served as an engineering manager on a variety of critical projects. Steve studied computer science at the University of Illinois .

Entrepreneur of the Year

Vincent Tianquan Mo Chairman and CEO of SouFun Holdings Limited

Vincent Mo has been be Chairman of the board and CEO of SouFun Holdings Limited since 1999. Mr. Mo served as a general manager for Asia at Teleres, a venture of Dow Jones & Co. and AEGON US to provide on-line commercial real estate information services, from 1994 to 1996 and an executive vice president at Asia Development and Finance Corporation from 1996 to 1998. In1999, Mr. Mo founded SouFun Holdings Limited and has served as the chief executive officer and chairman of the board. Mr. Mo holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from South China University of Technology, a Master of Science degree in business administration from Tsinghua University and a Master of Arts degree and Ph.D candidate in economics from Indianan University.