About us
The Chinese characters “Tianji” literally mean heaven and connections, and can be generally translated to mean “worldly connections”. We are China's leading social networking service dedicated to business networking for professionals. The site does not have cute girls and cool dudes flashing in your face; it does not cater to the youth dating market. It is designedexclusively for the needs of career professionals, to help them more efficiently build, manage and leverage their network of relationships – one of the most valuable assets in career-building.
CEO Derek Ling
Derek is an experienced entrepreneur with strong corporate and startup backgrounds. He had been a Vice President at Sina.com, and had held senior positions at Motorola and Apple Computer.Tianji.com is his second startup, after Qzone.com which was co-founded with Mark Wong-VanHaren, one of the founders of Excite. Qzone became the largest youth entertainment community in China within 6 months of launch.
Through his career, Derek had been a strategy consultant and advisor to a number of companies, including: Excite – No. 2 portal after Yahoo prior to acquisition by @Home; Serus – an enterprise solution startup in Silicon Valley; Daren – the leading radio production and entertainment company in China; and Beijing MobileData – a mobile service provider.
Derek obtained a Masters Degree from Stanford University and was a Ph.D.candidate at Stanford.
CTO Guo Yingshou
Guo Yingshou was trained to be a nuclear technology expert from Tsinghua University, The Institute Of High Energy Physics, Academia Sinica as well as Beijing University until he found fun with programming.
He is presently proud of being a senior enterprise application architect with more than 10 years of experience in Java/JavaEE-based internet software development, design and architecture, though his earlier career were focused on single-chip computer based control system and signal processing system design and on-site implementation for almost 10 years.
Guo Yingshou has successfully worked as Java developer/architect/chief architect on several large scale, distributed internet application projects before he joined Tianji on July 2006. His current professional interests include Java/Javascript/python/linux and Semantic Web technologies. In his spare time, Guo Yingshou loves playing soccer.