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AccessoriesGuitar Hero is a publisher, developer, and distributor of interactive entertainment software including the widely popular Guitar Hero® franchise. The company offers its interactive entertainment products PlayStation®2, PLAYSTATION®3, Wii™, Xbox 360®, and Nintendo DS. Guitar Hero also designs, manufactures, and markets high quality video game peripherals and accessories and has won awards for the Ignition® Dance Pad and the Guitar Hero SG® Controller.
Guitar Hero is headquartered in Mountain View, California with a development studio in Chennai, India and hardware and accessory manufacturing in Hong Kong.
Kai Huang
Founder
Kai Huang is a co-founder of video game publisher RedOctane and was President and CEO from 1999 to 2009. Publishers of the popular Guitar Hero franchise, RedOctane was acquired by Activision in June 2006.
Prior to RedOctane, Mr. Huang was co-founder and CEO of Adux Software, a software company developing solutions for the server appliance market. Adux Software was sold in 1999. From July 1994 to August 1998, Mr. Huang was a consultant with Accenture where he worked with Fortune 500 clients in the area of supply chain management. Mr. Huang holds a BA in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Charles Huang
Vice President Business Development and Founder
Charles Huang is a co-founder of Guitar Hero and currently serves as the EVP of Business Development, responsible for new game ventures, hardware product development and manufacturing. RedOctane was founded by Mr. Huang and his brother Kai in 1999. Later that year the company launched the world’s first online video game rental service. In 2005, the company published Guitar Hero, the first release in a series of critically acclaimed hits from the fastest growing videogame franchise ever. Prior to RedOctane, Mr. Huang co-founded Adux Software, a software company developing solutions for the server appliance market. Adux Software was sold in 1999. Mr. Huang holds a BA’s in Economics and Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.
In 2006, Mr. Huang, along with his brother Kai, was elected as one of the top 50 producers in New Media by the Producers Guild of American New Media Council membership which includes such famed movie directors as Jerry Bruckheimer and Brian Grazer. The award was created to acknowledge the contribution of individuals that are creating opportunities for content to be produced and distributed in a digital format.
Mr. Huang immigrated to California as a young child and currently resides in Silicon Valley with his wife and two daughters.
Laird Malamed
Senior Vice President, Production
Laird M. Malamed currently serves as Senior Vice President, Production at Guitar Hero. In this role he oversees all aspects of production – Software, Hardware and Manufacturing/Supply Chain.
Prior to this role, Mr. Malamed has held a variety of roles at Activision Publishing since joining the company in January 1995, serving most recently as Head of Production. Before Activision, Mr. Malamed worked as a Sound Editor at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, CA and LucasFilm Ltd. in Nicasio, CA. Mr. Malamed holds a joint Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering and Film & Media Studies. He attended the Graduate School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.
