Alfred Chuang

Alfred Chuang
Alfred Chuang
Born	Alfred Chuang; 1961; Hong Kong
Nationality	Chinese American
Occupation(s)	CEO of Magnet Systems, Inc.

Alfred S. Chuang (simplified Chinese: 庄思浩; traditional Chinese: 莊思浩) was part of the original Executive for BEA Systems founded by Bill Coleman, he later served as chairman, CEO and president of BEA Systems^[1] until it was purchased by Oracle in April 2008.^[2] Prior to founding BEA, Chuang worked at Sun Microsystems.

Chuang received a B.S. in computer science from the University of San Francisco and a master's degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management from the University of California, Davis. His graduate thesis, "Table-Tabular Data Objects and their Use in Table Editing", remains one of California State Library's most frequently used reference materials on relational database development.^[3]

Chuang is an alumnus of Wah Yan College, Hong Kong.

Since 2008, Chuang has been the founder and CEO of a Mobile App Server startup called Magnet Systems, Inc.^[4] On April 27, 2011 Magnet Systems, Inc. received $12.6 million of financing in their Series A round from investment firm Andreessen Horowitz.^[5] In August 2012 Magnet received an extra $47 million in Series B funding from HTC and Andreessen Horowitz^[6]

References

^ Management, BEA Systems. Retrieved on 2006-08-03.
^ Oracle Completes Acquisition of BEA Systems
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^ [2], LinkedIn. Retrieved on 2011-04-27
^ [3], WSJ. Retrieved 2011-04-27
^ Money Magnet: Enterprise app platform that got $35.4M from HTC actually closed $47M in funding

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[1] Management, BEA Systems. Retrieved on 2006-08-03.

[2] Oracle Completes Acquisition of BEA Systems

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[4] [2], LinkedIn. Retrieved on 2011-04-27

[5] [3], WSJ. Retrieved 2011-04-27

[6] Money Magnet: Enterprise app platform that got $35.4M from HTC actually closed $47M in funding

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