Eric Yuan
Founder & CEO, Zoom Communications Inc.
Eric S. Yuan is the founder and CEO of Zoom, where he now leads the company’s AI-first strategy to transform how people connect, collaborate, and create. Since founding Zoom in 2011, he has guided the company from startup to IPO in 2019, reshaping global communication along the way. A recognized leader in enterprise technology, Eric has been named to the Bloomberg 50 (2019), Time’s Businessperson of the Year, and one of its 100 Most Influential People (2020), and UC Today’s UC Leader of the Year (2024). Prior to Zoom, he served as VP of engineering at Cisco and was a founding engineer at Webex. He holds 29 issued and 28 pending patents in real-time collaboration.
