At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Beijing based CEO’ operating in the Video space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Shou Zi Chew
CEO of TikTok
Shou Zi Chew is the CEO of Tiktok.
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About ByteDance, TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
Andy Zhong
Co-Founder & CEO of FunPlus
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About FunPlus, Next Entertainment: FunPlus is a leading global developer and publisher of free-to-play mobile games

Victor Koo
Chairman, CEO, and Founder of Youku
Victor Koo is the founder and CEO of Youku, a Chinese web streaming video service. Koo received his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. He started his career at Bain & Company as a Management Consultant. In 1992, Koo started his MBA studies at Stanford University. He returned to China in 1994 and was appointed Vice President of Wells Fargo, overseeing media, entertainment, and industrial venture capital projects. In 1999 Koo joined Sohu and served as Chief Financial Officer and went on to be President of the company. In 2005, Koo initiated a tri-network integration and started a $ 3 million search fund. In 2006 Koo was appointed CEO of Youku.
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About Youku: Youku is a video-sharing website that enables users to search, view, and share high-quality video content across multiple devices.

Ayden Ye
Co-Founder & CEO of VeeR (Velocious)
Ayden joined Sierra in 2012 after finishing his Master in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Prior to Berkeley, Ayden gained entrepreneurial and product management experience in consumer web and mobile through his experience at a number of incubators and startups in both US and China. Ayden holds a BS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electrical Engineering and an M.Eng in Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.
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About VeeR (Velocious): Global VR content community for virtual reality lovers.
Gangjiang Li
Founder & CEO of Baijiayun
Gangjiang Li is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Baijiayun.
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About Baijiayun: A video broadcast platform that focuses on the education and training industry.
Xun Shu
Founder & CEO of Baobao
Xun Shu is founder of Baobao
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About Baobao: Baobao is a digital video streaming social media platform.

Rui Shi
CEO & Co-Founder of Icubic
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About Icubic: iCubicVR Technology focuses on providing automatic cloud VR video processing that is compatible with different types of VR capture devices.
Jinbo Li
Co-founder and CEO of Zuiyou
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About Zuiyou: Zuiyou is a social networking mobile application for sharing and discovering content such as recommendations, topics and videos.
Kai Ye
CEO of Playcrab
Ye Kai currently works as the CEO for Playcrab.
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About Playcrab: Beijing Science and Technology Co., play crab (Playcrab) is focused on the mobile Internet game operators innovative product development

Haoran Yu
Founder and CEO of Jisuanke
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About Jisuanke: Online Computer Science Program for Producing Top-class Engineers
Qi Guosheng
Co-Founder & CEO of Gridsum
Qi Guosheng is a Co-Founder & CEO at Gridsum.
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About Gridsum: Gridsum is a leading provider of sophisticated data analysis software for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies
Hong Liang
CEO of ViewShare
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About ViewShare: ViewShare is an educational video content provider in China.
Hong Liang
CEO of ViewShare
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About ViewShare: ViewShare is an educational video content provider in China.

Xie ChengHong
Founder & CEO of Layabox
Xie Chenghong, one of the earliest pioneers of Chinese online games. In 1999 the creation of the world’s first commercial WebGame; 2000 founded the world’s largest graphics and casual gaming platform “Coke bar”; founded in 2004 in the online business; founded in 2014 Layabox (search tour), is now China’s three HTML5 engine technology provider with excellent HTML5 game publishers.
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About Layabox: Layabox is a company focused on innovative new technologies and that adapts to the markets.