Eric Yuan

Eric S. Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 to help customers “work happy” and bring people together in an AI-first work platform for human connection. Zoom’s communications platform continues to transform the way global organizations connect, communicate, and collaborate. As the company’s founder and chief executive officer, Eric led Zoom to one of the highest-performing tech IPOs of 2019.

In 2019, he was recognized in the Bloomberg 50 as a leader changing the game in global business. Time Magazine named Eric its 2020 Businessperson of the Year and one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2020. In 2024, Eric was named a UC Leader of the Year by UC Today. In 2025, Eric was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, the highest distinction accorded to an engineer.

Prior to founding Zoom, Eric was corporate vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he was responsible for Cisco's collaboration software development. Eric was also one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex.

Eric is a named inventor on 29 issued and 28 pending patents in real-time collaboration.