Co-founder, Douglas Khoo

Douglas Khoo has been involved in both the interactive and traditional advertising and marketing communications business for almost 20 years. He is currently a co-founder of Qunar.com.

In addition to Qunar, Douglas is also a co-founder and investor in a range of online marketing service firms, including online advertising agency OneXeno and search engine optimization (SEO) firm Pixel Direct. Douglas is also Asia Director of Unicast, an internet advertising company specializing in rich media that was recently acquired by Viewpoint. Prior to these activities Douglas was a co-founder and Director of Shawei.com. Before pursuing these entrepreneurial opportunities, Douglas had a number of senior management positions during a 15-year career with the WPP group of companies, including Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, M-Digital and Mindshare. Notably he was responsible for Asia for building M-Digital, the online media buying and planning arm of WPP. Additionally, Douglas was GM of China for Mindshare. At WPP he was assigned to work in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

A native of Malaysia, Douglas earned a diploma in architecture from Jaya Institute of Technology. In his spare time Douglas is an enthusiastic golfer and traveler, and an avid reader of Booker Prize winners.

CEO and Co-founder, Fritz Demopoulos

Fritz Demopoulos has been involved in the Chinese internet and media industries for nearly a decade. Fritz sold China’s first banner advertisement to IBM in 1997. He is currently the CEO and Cofounder of Qunar.com, China’s largest travel internet company.

Qunar is one of China’s leading online travel media with over 45 million monthly unique visits and venture-backed by Granite Global, Tenaya Capital, Mayfield and GSR.

Qunar means “where are you going?” in Mandarin Chinese.

Prior to Qunar, Fritz was the SVP of Business Development at Netease.com, one of China’s leading internet portals and online game companies. In 2002, Netease was the best performing equity on the NASDAQ exchange.

Fritz was also the CEO and Cofounder of sports portal Shawei.com, which was venture backed by Intel, IDG and Softbank. Shawei, which means “brave shark” in Mandarin Chinese, was profitably acquired by Tom.com in 2000. He began his career in China with The News Corporation Limited where he was involved with a range of News Corp companies including Twentieth Century Fox, STAR TV, NDS and ChinaByte.

A native of Los Angeles, Fritz was educated at UCLA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cal State Fullerton and Karls-Ruprecht University in Germany. He is a supporter of the Arsenal Gunners of the English Premier League.

President and Co-Founder, Chen Chao Zhuang

Chenchao Zhuang "CC" is a recognized expert in internet technologies. He is currently a co-founder of Qunar.com and leads the company's technology and product development.

Prior to Qunar, CC was a member of the Systems Architecture team at the World Bank and was based in Washington DC. At the World Bank he was instrumental in developing a 130-country, 25-language intranet that was awarded "Best Intranet" by Nielsen Norman Group in 2003.

Prior to relocating to Washington, CC was a founding employee and CTO of Shawei, China's leading sports portal which was acquired by The Tom Group in 2000.

A native of Shanghai, CC was educated at Beijing University where he received a degree in Electrical Engineering. Among other pursuits, CC enjoys developing mathematical trading models.