Charles Chao has served as our Chairman of the board of directors since our inception.
He has served as the Chairman of the board of directors of our parent, SINA, since
August 2012, and has been SINA’s Chief Executive Officer since May 2006.
He served as SINA’s President from September 2005 to February 2013, Chief
Financial Officer from February 2001 to May 2006, Co-Chief Operating Officer from
July 2004 to September 2005. He also served as SINA’s Executive Vice President
from April 2002 to June 2003 and Vice President, Finance from September 1999 to
January 2001. Prior to joining SINA, Mr. Chao served as an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers,
LLP. Prior to that, Mr. Chao was a news correspondent at Shanghai Media Group.
Mr. Chao is currently a director of Leju Holdings Ltd., an NYSE-listed company
providing online-to-offline (O2O) real estate services in China, and a director
of NetDragon Websoft Inc., an HKSE-listed company providing technology for online
gaming. Mr. Chao holds a B.A. in Journalism from Fudan University in Shanghai,
China, an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Professional
Accounting degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Hong Du has served as our director since January 2014. Since February 2013,
Ms. Du has served as SINA’s Co-President and Chief Operating Officer.
Ms. Du joined SINA in November 1999 and worked in Business Development until
April 2004. From May 2004 to January 2005, Ms. Du served as Deputy General Manager
of 1Pai.com, a joint venture between SINA and Yahoo! Ms. Du rejoined SINA in
January 2005 and served as the General Manager of Sales Strategy from January
2005 to March 2005, General Manager of Sales from April 2005 to August 2005,
Vice President of Sales from September 2005 to February 2007, Senior Vice President
of Sales and Marketing from February 2007 to February 2008, and Chief Operating
Officer from February 2008 to February 2013. Ms. Du holds a B.S. in Applied
Chemistry from Harbin Institute of Technology and an M.S. in management information
systems from San Francisco State University.
Daniel Yong Zhang has served as our director since May 2014. Mr. Zhang has
been Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group Holding Limited, a leading online
and mobile commerce company listed on the NYSE, since May 2015, and has served
as Alibaba’s director since September 2014. After joining Alibaba group
in August 2007, Mr. Zhang served multiple senior management roles within the
group. He served as Chief Operating Officer from September 2013 to May 2015,
as President of Tmall.com from June 2011 to September 2013, and as Chief Financial
Officer of Taobao Marketplace from August 2007 to June 2011 while concurrently
served as General Manager of Tmall.com starting in April 2008 to June 2011.
Prior to joining Alibaba, Mr. Zhang served as Chief Financial Officer of Shanda
Interactive Entertainment Limited, an online game developer and operator then
listed on NASDAQ, from August 2005 to August 2007. From 2002 to 2005, he was
a senior manager of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Audit and Business Advisory
Division in Shanghai. He is a member of the WEF International Business Council
and serves on the board of directors of the Consumer Goods Forum. Mr. Zhang
received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Shanghai University of Finance
and Economics.
Pehong Chen has served as our independent director since January 2016. Before
that he served as a director of SINA between March 1999 and December 2015. Mr.
Chen has been the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the board
of BroadVision Inc., a software applications company, since May 1993. Prior
to founding BroadVision, Mr. Chen was Vice President of Multimedia Technology
at Sybase, Inc., an enterprise software company, from 1992 to 1993. From 1989
to 1992, Mr. Chen founded and was President of Gain Technology, a multimedia
software tools company, which was acquired by Sybase. He currently also serves
at the board of director of Asian Art Museum. Mr. Chen received a B.S. in Computer
Science from National Taiwan University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana
University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California
at Berkeley.
Frank Kui Tang has served as our independent director since April 2014. Mr.
Tang is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FountainVest Partners, a
leading private equity firm dedicated to investments China. Prior to founding
FountainVest Partners, from 2005 to 2007, Mr. Tang headed the China investments
for Temasek Holdings as its senior managing director. From 1994 to 2005, Mr.
Tang served various positions at Goldman Sachs, including Executive Director
in Principal Investment Area and Managing Director and Head of Telecom, Media
and Technology investment banking in Asia ex-Japan. Mr. Tang holds an M.B.A.
degree from Columbia Business School and is a member of its Board of Overseers.
He is also a board governor of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity
Association and a director of Accenture, a NYSE-listed company providing business
services.
Gaofei Wang has served as our Chief Executive Officer since February 2014.
Since our inception, Mr. Wang has had various product and business development
roles at Weibo and was promoted to General Manager in December 2012. Mr. Wang
joined SINA in August 2000 and worked in the product development department
until early 2004 when he transferred to the SINA Mobile division. He served
as General Manager of SINA Mobile from November 2006 to November 2012. Mr. Wang
holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Peking University and an EMBA degree
from Guanghua School of Management of Peking University.
Fei Cao has served as our Vice President, Finance since August 2017. Prior
to that, Ms. Cao was a Vice President of SINA from January 2017 to July 2017
overseeing SINA’s finance department. Ms. Cao joined SINA in 2005 and
served as the company’s Corporate Controller for more than ten years.
Prior to joining SINA, she was an audit manager at the PricewaterhouseCoopers
in Beijing. Ms. Cao holds a B.S. in engineering and an EMBA degree from Shanghai
Jiaotong University. She is a certified public accountant in China and a member
of the China Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Yajuan Wang has served as our Vice President, Advertising Business since August
2017. From February 2014 to August 2017, Ms. Wang held the position of our Vice
President, Sales. From May 2012 to February 2014, Ms. Wang held the position
of Vice President, Business Operations at SINA. Prior to joining SINA, Ms. Wang
worked at Baidu as Director of Business Operations from November 2008 to April
2012. Previously, Ms. Wang worked at Microsoft (China) as Customer/Partner Experience
Manager from May 2003 to July 2004 and at China Hewlett-Packard from 1993 to
2002, mainly responsible for Customer Service Delivery. Ms. Wang holds a B.A.
in Information Science and an EMBA degree from Peking University.
Weibo Corporation currently has 3361 employees.