Dan Guo is currently founder and CEO of Dingfu Data in Beijing, China. He served as an EIR at XSeed from 2012-2014, sharing his substantial experience in internet engineering and product management. Prior to XSeed, Dan was the founding member and Senior Director of Engineering of Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU), the world’s largest Chinese search engine company. Dan developed the first generation of Baidu’s search system and online advertising platform, which now generate more than $1B of revenue per year. In his role at Baidu, Dan was head of Research & Development, Product Marketing, Quality Assurance and other groups with over 1,500 engineers. Dan and his team developed a series of successful products, including news search, search community, and knowledge search, which secured Baidu’s leading position in China’s internet market by dominating more than 70% of the share in the search market.

Dan holds an MS in Management from Stanford University, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University.