Diane Yu — CEO

Diane Yu is the co-founder & CEO of Tidalwave, an agentic AI mortgage startup, simplifying the home loan process with its AI-powered tool SOLO™. Tidalwave’s SOLO™ integrates with Freddie Mac's Loan Product Advisor® (LPA℠) and Fannie Mae's Desktop Underwriter® (DU®) to provide real-time, personalized experiences for borrowers while acting as a co-pilot for loan officers and processors. For more information, please visit https://www.tidalwave.ai/. Before TidalWave, Diane was the chief technology officer for Better, a digital mortgage company. At Better, Diane led the company’s platform and technology strategy, was responsible for upscaling the engineering teams as well as the tech platform, driving toward a mission to create innovative solutions making homeownership faster and simpler with superior customer service along the way. In this capacity, she worked closely with the founder, board members and the rest of the exec team, defined the company growth and transformation strategy, implemented and deployed tech solutions. Prior to that, Diane served as the chief technology officer for Comcast Advertising as well as the co-founder of FreeWheel, A Comcast Company. Diane led the architecture and operation of FreeWheel’s video monetization platform, with oversight of a global engineering team spanning the Americas, Europe and China. Diane also oversaw the engineering operations and complete lifecycle product development, and led organizational and high level technical architecture design. Diane came to Comcast via acquisition of the company she co-founded, FreeWheel. As co-founder and CTO of FreeWheel, she built and evolved the company’s research and development hubs from ground up, architected and created what was known as the most advanced adTech platform purposely designed and built for premium TV in the industry, serving global media conglomerates for their most complex and advanced advertising needs. Diane is a vocal champion for female leadership, with years of continuous efforts and determination, she creates teams with 30+ percent of whom are female engineers, reflecting Diane’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Diane is a frequent honoree by Cablefax as its “Most Powerful Women” and “Most Influential Minorities” in the media industry, was named 2021 working mothers of the year by She Runs It. Diane serves on the board of directors for Magnite (Nasdaq: MGNI) since March 2022.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and AdTech leader with extensive experience in software development and product management.

Location: New York, New York, United States

Experience: 27 yrs 7 mos