Susan Wu
CEO & Co-Founder
ohai

Susan Wu is the co-founder and CEO of ohai, a games company dedicated to creating the world’s first true flash-based MMOs for the social web. Susan is also currently an advisor to highly anticipated startups Square and Mixer Labs.

Susan was formerly principal and venture advisor at Charles River Ventures, where she was involved with investments in leading tech companies Twitter, Live Gamer and Metaplace. Susan was formerly CMO of Apache Software Foundation, one of the world's leading open source software organizations.

Susan’s roots in the open source community stems from her long-abiding interest in how technology catalyzes social and economic change. She began her career as the chief architect of an early text Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) and has remained active in online gaming as a competitive Quake player and a key contributor to a leading Quake mod and open source gaming engine. A serial entrepreneur, Susan was the co-founder of a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) startup with a successful IPO, and a senior executive at a publicly traded digital security company. In 2009, Fast Company named Susan one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business.”

Susan was the founding co-producer for the Virtual Goods Summit, and on the advisory committee for the Web 2.0 Conference. She has spoken at Le Web, SXSW, E3, GDC, Austin GDC, Web 2.0 Expo and many other conferences.