OUR LEADERSHIP

The Lu & Guo Foundation focuses on environmental sustainability which protects the natural environment and the people and wildlife that depend upon it by linking environmental security, sustainability, human rights and social need.

The Lu & Guo Foundation is a new California Nonprofit Corporation for Public Benefit, located in Menlo Park, CA

YAOQI "DAVID" GUO

Co-Founder

David Guo (Yaoqi Guo) brings over 25 years of software and game development, network security, UX, game theory and API design expertise. David's passion for technology started when he was in high school at 1993, selling a multimedia management software system to GuangZhou Southern TV Corporation. In 1998 before he graduated university, David created the famed Skynet firewall, the most popular consumer firewall in China at the time with tens of millions of internet users protected. In 2004, he co-founded one of the largest virtual currency exchange platforms in the world, facilitating millions of transactions and generating hundreds of millions in value by 2005.

David has co-led the design, development and publishing of multiple products such as: Skynet Firewall (1998), MyIM (2000), Virtual Currency Exchange (2004) Evony: Age I (2009), Evony: Age II (2010), Sunny Town (2011), Tynon (2011), Digisocial (2011), Heroes Charge (2014), Hi App (2014), Commanders of Evony (2014), Evony The King's Return (2016), Heroes Battle (2017), Alliance of Glory (2019), Kings Legion (2019), War and Wit (2020), Plague of Z (2020), Rise of Cosa Nostra (2021).

LU LU

Co-Founder

Lu Lu brings over 10 years of serial entrepreneurship, creating multiple successful startups in the digital entertainment, instant messaging, publishing and high tech industries within the United States. Lu possesses a Bachelor of Design from Parsons School of Design.

Lu started her first company in 2009 and has been involved in leading and managing the design, development and publishing of high quality mobile and online applications such as: Evony: Age I (2009), Evony: Age II (2010), Tynon (2012), Digisocial (2012), Hi (2013), Heroes Charge (2015), Evony: The King’s Return (2016).

During her tenure as CEO over multiple companies, Lu has managed diverse teams with hundreds of developers globally reporting to her with a combined user base of hundreds of million users worldwide. Her published products have won a dozen awards within the industry such as Pocket Gamer's Top 50 Developer for 2015.

CLAUDE STERN

General Counsel

Claude Stern is a 40+ year trial lawyer focusing on technology, intellectual property and complex civil disputes. Claude’s clients range from Fortune 50 companies to cutting-edge start-ups. Since 2003, he has served as Co-Chair of the Intellectual Property Practice Group of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the world’s largest litigation-only law firm. For more than 20 years, Claude has been repeatedly recognized as a leading national and international legal expert in intellectual property disputes, and has tried precedent-setting cases in all areas of intellectual property. Throughout his career, he has taught and lectured nationally and internationally on various intellectual property and litigation-related topics. Claude has been a lecturer in the Trial Advocacy Course at Stanford Law School for 28 years.

Claude was managing partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Silicon Valley office for 12 years, overseeing its growth from 10 lawyers to more than 50 lawyers.

Claude was born in Syracuse, New York to parents who emigrated to the United States from Switzerland after World War II. He attended UCLA, majoring in Philosophy, and attended UC Hastings College of Law, graduating Order of the Coif.

MR. C

Chief Communications Officer