Ping Pan

Ping Pan is the SVP of Product Management at Brightspot. Prior to joining Brightspot, Ping was a Senior Product Manager at AOL from June 2002 until December 2009. At AOL, Ping was the product lead for AOL News and myAOL. Before AOL, Ping was a web developer and technical researcher at The Aerospace Corporation from May 2001 to August 2001. There, they analyzed job/task design for the usage of colors in space system displays in Aerospace Technical Operating Report # TOR-2001 (8506)-1189 (published August 31, 2001). Prior to that, Ping was a web information design intern at Sun Microsystems from May 2000 to August 2000. There, they conducted usability studies with clients and external users for a web-based product, http://www.sunsolve.sun.com

Ping Pan completed their undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon University, where they studied Information Systems and Human Computer Interaction. They then went on to complete their MBA at the University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Their manager is David Gang, CEO & Co-Founder. They are on a team with Hyoo Lim - CTO, Jeremy Collins - CTO, and David Habib - CIO.