JJ Zhuang () is a VP of Engineering at

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. With

Kevin Henrikson Kevin Henrikson is a San Francisco-based engineer, speaker, and investor. Henrikson has worked for or headed several companies, such as Zimbra, Alpha Brand Media and Acompli. Career Henrikson earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineer ...

as his business counterpart, he cofounded

Acompli Acompli is a discontinued mobile app that allowed for user interaction with email messages as well as management of multiple email accounts in one programme. In addition, the tool also organized one's calendar and shared files. This application pr ...

, the most broadly used email mobile and calendar client app for iPhone.

was acquired by Microsoft at a price of $200 Million with less than 40 employees.

Career

Zhuang received a Bachelor of Science degree from

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU; ) is a public research university in Shanghai, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university was established on April 8, 1896 as Nanyang Public School (南洋� ...

. He worked at Openwave Systems Inc as a software architect from December 2000 to December 2006. He then became a software architect at

Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration, formerly known as the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) before 2019, is a collaborative software suite that includes an email server and a web client. Zimbra was initially developed by LiquidSys, which changed their name ...

and moved along its merger with

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and

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. He was promoted to Chief Architect at Zimbra in February 2010 and later Chief Architect and Director of Engineering at

in March 2012. He quit VMWare in May 2013. One month later, Zhuang co-founded

with

Javier Soltero Javier Soltero is a Puerto Rican entrepreneur and executive. Previously, he was the Corporate Vice President advisor to Rajesh Jha at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he was co-founder and CEO of Acompli, after being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence a ...

and

. He served as CTO until its acquisition by

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

in December 2014. Acompli is a company which builds email mobile applications and has raised $7.3 million in venture capital financing. Acompli was acquired by

for $200 million in 2014 and is now Outlook Mobile. Zhuang joined Microsoft upon its acquisition of Acompli.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhuang, JJ Living people Chinese emigrants to the United States American computer programmers American software engineers Shanghai Jiao Tong University alumni Microsoft employees Year of birth missing (living people)