Jae Chung

Jae Chung has over 13 years of work experience in the tech and gaming industries. In 2021, they became the Co-Founder & CEO of Thumb Technologies, which is backed by Naver, Kakao Ventures, FuturePlay, and KDB Capital. Prior to that, they were a Lead Product Manager for Amazon Luna and a Senior Product Manager for AWS Game Tech from 2017-2021. From 2016-2017, they were a Senior Product Manager at Jaunt XR, a Product Line Manager at Autodesk from 2013-2016, a Lead Animator at Activision Blizzard / Treyarch from 2011-2013, and a Lead Animator / Gameplay Logic Lead at Rockstar San Diego from 2008-2011, where they worked on Max Payne 3, L.A. Noire, Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare, and Red Dead Redemption. Jae was a Technical Animator at EA Chicago from 2007-2008.

Jae Chung received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronic Materials Engineering from Kwangwoon University, followed by a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media from Pratt Institute.