Zaw Thet

Zaw Thet, CEO and co-founder of 4INFO, is a veteran of the technology/wireless industries, setting the bar for how companies reach and engage consumers on their mobile devices. 4INFO was founded in 2004, and under Zaw's leadership, has become the largest independent mobile media company in the US: managing mobile media, marketing, and advertising for thousands of top tier publishers and advertisers and tens of millions of users every month.

In addition, Zaw is an angel investor for Lionside, a social gaming company that recently launched the first NBA game on Facebook. Zaw is frequently quoted in the national press on telecommunications and media issues in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He is a featured speaker at technology, mobile and digital advertising conferences, recently appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt, South by Southwest, CTIA, IAB, ad:tech, iMedia, and the 4A's. Business Week named Thet as one of the "New M-Commerce Barons" in 2006.

Zaw is also committed to non-profits, serving on the national board of After School All Stars (ASAS), founded by Governor Schwarzenegger and now the largest non-profit of its kind, serving over 85,000 underprivileged 6-8th graders in schools across the US. Thet's passion for the non-profit sector led him to found Palindrome Advisors, a company dedicated to changing the way leaders give back.Palindrome was developed to match industry leaders with nonprofits. Like a “Match.com” for the non-profit sector, Zaw and his inner circle began working on the idea for Palindrome after finding that their monetary and time commitments were inconsistent and less likely to really impact the charities they wanted to help. Zaw is Chairman of Palindrome, whose clients includes ASAS (donate $10 by texting ASAS to 20222), the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Bay Area Outreach and Reaction (BORP), the United Nations Foundation, The Glow Foundation and more.

Prior to founding 4INFO, Thet was part of the early social networking industry at Spoke Software and was a special consultant to the San Francisco 49ers. While at Stanford, Thet's entrepreneurial spirit drove him to take a leave of absence after freshman year and start his first company, GetInventory, a web-based supply chain management company. Thet graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Political and Computer Science, where he was a President's Scholar. He has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Soros Fellow.