Chief Product Officer

Duke Fan is KQED’s Chief Product Officer leading the station’s digital teams, including product management, user experience and design, and software engineering.

Duke arrived at KQED in 2021 with more than 25 years of building products and teams at the intersection of business, user experience and technology. He was at the forefront of personalization and user analytics, innovating on My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Toolbar. Then at the dawn of mobile apps, his teams at realtor.com launched industry-first features including searching by school catchment and tracing any custom area. And 8 years before ChatGPT, his team at startup RealScout was already using machine learning to configure MLS data and computer vision to make properties searchable by room style and features.

Since Duke joined, KQED has rebuilt mobile apps, youth media challenges and award-winning voter guides. Duke also stepped in as staff lead for the Strategic Planning Committee of KQED’s Board of Directors and steered KQED’s new strategic plan. Together, everyone is looking forward to bigger experiments and innovations ahead.

Duke majored in mass communications at UC Berkeley and earned an MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business.