Sheng Fu has been our Chairman of the Board since March 2018, and our chief executive
officer and director of the Board since November 2010. Mr. Fu has also been a
senior vice president of Kingsoft Corporation since March 2011. Since September
2009, Mr. Fu has been the chief executive officer and chairman of Conew Network.
Prior to that, Mr. Fu was the vice president of Matrix Partners China from November
2008. Between November 2005 and August 2008, Mr. Fu worked at Qihoo 360 serving
various management roles at its 360 department, a division then in charge of developing
360 products. From March 2003 to October 2005, Mr. Fu was the product manager
of 3721 Internet Real Name and 3721 Internet Assistant. Mr. Fu received a bachelor’s
degree in economics from Shandong Institute of Business and Technology in China
in 1999.
Tao Zou has been our director since December 2016. Mr. Zou was appointed to
be our director by Kingsoft Corporation, at which he serves as an executive
director and the chief executive officer, and the chief executive officer of
Seasun Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Kingsoft Corporation. Mr. Zou joined
Kingsoft Corporation in 1998 serving various management roles. Mr. Zou graduated
from Tianjin Nankai University in 1997.
Jie Xiao has been our director since March 2018, and our senior vice president
since November 2014, after having served as our vice president since October
2010. Ms. Xiao is in charge of business development, marketing, and commercial
products. From 2008 to 2010, she was a senior manager at the enterprise marketing
department of Baidu, Inc., a Nasdaq listed company, focusing on public relations.
Before that, she worked as a public relations director at Qihoo 360 Technology
Co., Ltd. and a communications manager for Yahoo! China. Ms. Xiao received a
bachelor’s degree in accounting from Renmin University in 1999.
Pin Zhou has been our senior vice president since March 2018, after having
served as our advisor since March 1, 2015. Mr. Zhou is in charge of sales, strategic
investment, human resources, and part of our smart hardware business. Mr. Zhou
has more than 18 years of experience in the internet industry, with extensive
knowledge in product management and online advertising. Before joining Cheetah
Mobile, Mr. Zhou served as the founder and chief executive officer of Quwan.com,
an e-commerce company in China. Before that, Mr. Zhou held various managerial
positions in Baidu, Herosoft, and Tuopu Software Group. Mr. Zhou received a
bachelor’s degree in international finance from Shanxi Institute of Finance
and Economics in 1999.
Rui Hao has been our director since March 2018. He currently also serves as
an executive director at Tencent Investment, focusing on Tencent’s strategic
investment and M&A activity in the areas of e-commerce, O2O and retail.
Mr. Hao was responsible for Tencent’s strategic investments in JD.com,
a Nasdaq listed company, Meituan Dianping, VIPshop, a New York Stock Exchange
listed company, 58.com, a New York Stock Exchange listed company, and many others.
Before that, Mr. Hao worked for Jefferies Hong Kong Limited as research analyst
covering the internet sector. Before that, Mr. Hao worked for Accenture Consulting
as a strategy consultant in the high-tech industry. Mr. Hao received both a
bachelor’s degree in e-commerce and a master’s degree in management
science and engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Ning Zhang currently serves as the founder and chairman of Red Avenue Group.
Red Avenue Group researches, produces, and invests in new materials through
three business units: Red Avenue New Materials Group, Red Avenue Investment
Group, and Red Avenue Foundation. Ms. Zhang holds a doctoral degree in business
administration from Arizona State University, an M.B.A. from the University
of Warwick, an E.M.B.A. from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and a
Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Beijing Technology
and Business University.
Michael Jinbo Yao is the chairman and chief executive officer of 58.com. Mr.
Yao founded 58.com, and has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors
and Chief Executive Officer of 58.com since its inception. Mr. Yao is a pioneer
in China’s Internet industry. Prior to founding 58.com, Mr. Yao founded
in 2000 domain.cn, a domain name transaction and value-added service website
in China. After domain.cn was acquired by net.cn in the same year, Mr. Yao served
in various managerial roles at net.cn, including Vice President of Sales, until
2005. Mr. Yao currently serves on the Board of Directors of Xueda Education
Group, a NYSE-listed company he co-founded. Mr. Yao received his bachelor’s
degrees in computer science and chemistry from Ocean University of China (formerly
known as Ocean University of Qingdao) in 1999.
Michael Lingye Zuo is one of the founding members of Matrix Partners (China)
and has strong investment expertise. Mr. Zuo joined WI Harper after graduating
from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in 2002, and played
an instrumental role in WI Harper’s investment in Focus Media in 2004.
At Matrix Partners (China), Mr. Zuo focuses on the marketplace and enterprise
services sectors and is actively involved in making investment decisions. He
has led investments in Cheetah Mobile, Baofeng, Liepin, Yuantiku, To8to, Anjuke,
Babytree, 36Kr, Beisen, Xiaoshouyi. Mr. Zuo was ranked by Zero2IPO as one of
the top 10 rising stars in China’s Venture Capital Industry in 2006.
Richard Weidong Ji has been our independent director since May 2014. Our board
of directors has determined that Mr. Ji meets the independence standards under
Rule 10A-3 under the Exchange Act and applicable NYSE corporate governance rules.
Mr. Ji is the founding partner of All-Star Investment Limited, which aims to
invest in internet technology leaders and consumer brands that help enhance
the lives of Chinese consumers. Mr. Ji is also an independent director and a
member of the audit committee of the boards of the NASDAQ-listed YY Inc. and
the NYSE-listed 58.com Inc. Mr. Ji served as managing director and head of Asia-Pacific
internet/media investment research at Morgan Stanley Asia Limited from 2005
to 2012, during which period he had won recognitions from publications and research
groups such as Institutional Investor, Greenwich Associates, Asia money and
Financial Times. Mr. Ji holds a Doctor of Science degree in biological science
from Harvard University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University
of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science from Fudan University in China.
Tianyang Zhao currently serves as the chief executive officer of Beijing Shougang
Fund, which he helped establish in 2010. Beijing Shougang Fund currently manages
12 funds with RMB48 billion in assets under management. As a professional investor,
Mr. Zhao’s investments focus on four industries: smart parking and smart
cities, medicine, supply chain finance, and sports. In the past few years, Mr.
Zhao led Shougang Group in several public and private capital market transactions.
Mr. Zhao graduated from Peking University and Cheung Kong Graduate School of
Business (EMBA).
Dr. Yi Ma currently serves as a professor at the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences (“EECS”) Department of the University of California
at Berkeley. From 2014 to 2017, he was a professor and the executive dean of
the School of Information and Science and Technology, Shanghai Tech University,
China. From 2009 to early 2014, he was a principal researcher and research manager
of the Visual Computing group at Microsoft Research Asia. From 2000 to 2011,
he was an associate professor at the ECE Department of the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. His main research interest is in computer vision and high-dimensional
data analysis. He received his Bachelor’s degree in automation and applied
mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1995, Master of Science degree in EECS
in 1997, Master of Arts degree in mathematics in 2000, and PhD degree in EECS
in 2000, all from the University of California at Berkeley. He is ranked as
the World’s Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics of Thomson
Reuters since 2016, and ranked among the Top 50 of the World’s Most Influential
Authors in Computer Science by Semantic Scholar, according to the Science Magazine
2016.
Ming Xu has been our president since November 2014. Mr. Xu was our chief technology
officer from October 2010 to February 2016. Mr. Xu has more than ten years of
experience in the research and development of anti-virus and internet security.
Prior to joining us, between September 2008 and October 2010, Mr. Xu served
as the chief technology officer of Conew.com Corporation. Between 2005 and August
2008, Mr. Xu worked at Qihoo 360, where he was the technical director of 360
department, a division then in charge of developing 360 products. Between 2003
and 2005, Mr. Xu worked in various internet companies, including Yahoo! Inc.
and Beijing 3721 Technology Co., Ltd. as a software engineer. Mr. Xu received
a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Harbin
Institute of Technology in 2002 and 1999, respectively.
Vincent Zhenyu Jiang has been our chief financial officer since April 2017.
Mr. Jiang joined us from a start-up tech company, which he founded in 2015.
From 2014 to 2015, Mr. Jiang served as the chief financial officer of 9F Inc.,
a leading internet finance company in China. From 2007 to 2014, Mr. Jiang was
an attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. Jiang has been
a CFA charterholder since 2013. He received his juris doctor degree from Cornell
Law School in 2008, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from
the Pennsylvania State University in 1999, and his master’s and bachelor’s
degrees in automotive engineering from Tsinghua University in 1998 and 1995,
respectively.
Yuki Yandan He joined Cheetah Mobile in 2010 and has been in charge of a number
of our flagship products, including Duba Anti-virus, Clean Master and Battery
Doctor. In particular, Clean Master has been our most significant mobile product.
She has led the launch of Live.me, a popular living streaming application, in
the overseas markets since April 2016. Live.me is Cheetah Mobile’s first
subsidiary to raise funds from outside investors. As the chief executive officer
of Live.me, she led Live.me’s two rounds of financing in 2017 and raised
an aggregate of US$110 million. Live.me has also been named one of Fast Company’s
Most Innovative Companies in Video for 2017. Prior to Cheetah Mobile, she was
a product director at Tencent and Kingsoft and played a significant role in
designing various products. She received a bachelor’s degree in electronic
science and technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology
of China.
Cheetah Mobile Inc currently has 934 employees.
