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 many industry-first features. Duke has also held tech forward product roles at Netflix and Stitch Fix.

Since Duke joined, KQED has rebuilt mobile apps, youth media challenges and award-winning voter guides. Duke has also stepped in as staff lead for the Strategic Planning Committee of KQED’s Board of Directors. 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.