Founder Profile
Eric Yuan
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Eric Yuan?
Eric Yuan is a founder of Zoom Communications, Inc., which was founded in 2011.
- Company founded
- Zoom Communications, Inc.
- Founded
- 2011
Background
Yuan moved from China to the United States in 1997 and joined WebEx. After Cisco bought WebEx in 2007, he stayed on as an engineering vice president. He left in 2011 to start Zoom.
Founding Story
Eric S. Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 and has been its CEO ever since. He took the company public in 2019, led it through the 2020 remote-work surge and the security fixes that followed, and has since pushed it into phone, contact center and AI products. In November 2024 he renamed it Zoom Communications.
Eric Yuan was born in 1970 in Tai'an. Education: Shandong University of Science and Technology.