Horace Luke (Chinese name: 陸學森) is a Taiwanese entrepreneur and businessman, co-founder and former CEO of

Gogoro Gogoro Inc. is a Taiwanese company that developed a Battery swapping, battery-swapping refueling platform for urban electric vehicle, electric two-wheel Scooter (motorcycle), scooters, mopeds and motorcycles. It also develops its own line of elect ...

, an electric scooter and battery swapping company.

Early life and education

Luke was born in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

and moved to

Washington Washington most commonly refers to: * George Washington (1732–1799), the first president of the United States * Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A ...

at age 13. Luke attended the University of Washington, studying industrial design.

Career

In 1997, he joined Microsoft and contributed to the creation of the original

Xbox Xbox is a video gaming brand that consists of four main home video game console lines, as well as application software, applications (games), the streaming media, streaming service Xbox Cloud Gaming, and online services such as the Xbox networ ...

, and then served as the creative director of Microsoft's mobile platform product group. Luke served as the Chief Innovation Officer at

HTC HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t), or High Tech Computer Corporation (abbreviated and trading as HTC), is a Taiwanese consumer electronics corporatio ...

until July 2011. In the same year, he founded Gogoro in Taiwan with Matt Taylor.

References

Living people 1970 births University of Washington alumni Taiwanese chief executives Taiwanese company founders Hong Kong emigrants to the United States Technology company founders {{Taiwan-business-bio-stub