Kevin Chou is the CEO of Forte, a new blockchain gaming project. Forte is
founded by technology and gaming veterans from Kabam, GarageGames, Unity,
Linden Labs, Twitch and Facebook. Forte has over 20 senior engineers and 40
total people working fulltime on the soon to be announced project.
Kevin is also the founder and Chairman of Gen.G, a new esports enterprise
bridging Asia and North America. Gen.G is the parent company of Seoul Dynasty
in the Over-watch League, as well as the 2017 League of Legends world
champions Gen.G and the 2018 Battlegrounds world champions Gen.G Gold.
Previously, Kevin was CEO and co-founder of Kabam, the leader in developing
midcore mobile games. Kevin led the company from business plan founding to
over $400M in annual revenue. Kabam was profitable from 2012 until the sale of
the company’s studios to Netmarble, 21st Century Fox, and GAEA, which in total
generated nearly $1 billion in value.
Prior to founding Kabam, Kevin was a venture capitalist at the VC firm Canaan
Partners.
Kevin Chou graduated magna cum laude from the UC Berkeley undergraduate
Haas School of Business program. He serves on the Board at UC Berkeley.