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Mr. Chen is a co-founder and currently serves as the VP, Ad Operations and is a member of the company's executive. In this role, Mr. Chen oversees all premium ad products, which includes pricing of ads and creation of custom ad supported programs and manages the Traffic, Account Management and Sales Production teams. Mr. Chen's prior experience managing both operations and product management for the product development team is a major asset as he helps to grow the Client Solutions Group.From 2005 to 2006, Mr. Chen served as GM of Member Revenue overseeing multiple revenue lines, which included the online dating subscription business. During that time, Mr. Chen was part of the team responsible for developing "Community 9", which was a complete rewrite of the source code for the sites. As a result of "Community 9", the company can now rapidly deploy new sites in 30 days or less. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Chen served as Executive Director of Production overseeing product management and operations for the Product Development group as wells as managing the member services team. During that time, Mr. Chen and with Mr. Montero created the Product Development Team (PDT) which unified the development and code base across all sites. This was a step in improving the company's ability to rapidly develop and manage code across all sites. Prior to 2001, Mr. Chen was an integral part of the team responsible for creating and launching www.AsianAve.com, www.BlackPlanet.com and www.MiGente.com. Mr. Chen was also responsible for managing much of the site's original content that included Liquid Soap, A day in the life of, First Place and the Wall. Prior to co-founding Community Connect Inc. Mr. Chen graduated NYU with an actuarial science major. Mr. Chen then worked at MetLife as an Actuary before moving to Chase Manhattan Bank as part of their risk management team. | 