Management Team

Lyle Fong

CEO & Co-Founder

Lyle is responsible for the strategic direction and corporate vision at Lithium. He assumed the role of CEO in December, 2006.

Prior to starting Lithium Technologies, Lyle co-founded GX Media, where he was the CTO. He drove the development of Gamers.com, which was rated the #1 independent gaming portal by Nielsen NetRatings. Lyle was instrumental in raising a total of $15M in funding led by CMGI, negotiating multi-million dollar technology licensing deals with Dell, Sony, AltaVista, and Ziff-Davis, and spearheading the spin-off of Lithium Technologies. Lyle was also the driving force behind the creation of technologies for professional gaming, including a global rankings system, tournament engine, and a real-time match reporting and spectating system. These technologies were the key success factors behind the AMD PGL, the most successful and highly acclaimed professional gaming league to date with over 100 million media impressions, and also numerous tournaments for Sega.

Before Lithium Technologies and GX Media, Lyle launched two other startups - a specialized computer services business which has since expanded into one of the largest ISPs in China and a software consulting business, NetStreams.

Lyle studied at UC Berkeley, majoring in Computer Science, where he received the Hewlett-Packard Scholarship Award and National Youth Leadership Award.

Q. How did you get involved in online communities?

A. Early on in high school I was on a few different bulletin boards. Then when I was an active in multi-player gaming, I saw the need for a solid community platform that just wasn't there. The competition and camaraderie really begged for a good way to communicate and connect with your peers. So, at Gamers.com, we decided to build one ourselves.

Q. What online communities are you a part of?

A. For social networking, I'm on LinkedIn and Facebook. I've been active for a long time on thinkpads.com, as well as DP Review and FredMiranda.com for photography. Plus, there are our communities like Dell and AT&T. I intentionally frequent a lesser amount of communities so that I can be more active.