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Chart of the Three Committees
Below is a summary of our committee structure and membership information. To read more about any of the committees, click on committee names in the chart below.
Mr. Jeffrey Zhijie Zeng has served as our director since October 2006. Mr. Zeng is the CEO and founding partner of Kaixin Investment, a venture capital fund jointly founded by China Development Bank and CITIC Capital in May 2008. Mr. Zeng also serves as the chairman of China Special Article Logistics Company. He had previously served as managing director of Walden International, a global venture capital firm, for which he was mainly responsible for venture investments in China and other Asia countries from 2001 to 2008. Mr. Zeng continues to serve as an advisor to Walden International, whose affiliated investment entities hold Series A preferred shares in our company. Prior to that, Mr. Zeng worked for CITIC Pacific Ltd., a large public company in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001 and Mitsubishi Corporation in Tokyo from 1996 to 1998. Presently, Mr. Zeng also serves as an independent director of China Greatwall Computer Shenzhen Co., Ltd. and Hunan Talkweb Information System Ltd, both listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Chinasoft International Ltd, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Shanghai AJ Corporation, a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, E-House (China) Holdings Limited, a real estate services company in China listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and Vimicro International Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company listed on the Nasdaq Global Market. Mr. Zeng also serves on the boards of a number of private companies based in China. Mr. Zeng received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Nagasaki in Japan and a master's degree in management from Stanford University.
Dr. Daqing Dave Qi has served as our independent director since June 30, 2010. Dr. Qi is a professor of accounting and the associate dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He began teaching at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in 2002 and was the founding director of its Executive MBA program. Prior to that, Dr. Qi was an associate professor at the School of Accounting of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Qi has published many articles and research essays on accounting, financial reporting, capital market and other related topics. He also has extensive experience in providing executive training and consulting services in accounting and corporate finance to government departments and private companies, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Shanghai Municipal Government, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Telecom, China Netcom, Nokia and Ericsson. Dr. Qi also serves on the board of directors of Sohu.com Inc., Focus Media Holding Limited and Bona Film Group Limited, all listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, Honghua Group Limited, SinoMedia Holding Limited and China Huiyuan Juice Group Limited, all listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and China Vanke Co., Ltd. listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Dr. Qi received a bachelor's degree in biophysics and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Fudan University in China, an M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Ph.D. in accounting from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management of Michigan State University. Dr. Qi is a member of the American Accounting Association.
Ms. Belinda Wang has served as our independent director since June 2011. Ms. Wang is currently Sohu.com Inc. ("Sohu.com")'s co-president and chief operating officer. Ms. Wang joined Sohu.com in August 1999 and now leads their brand advertising sales and marketing efforts for China. She has been responsible for managing Sohu.com's game information portal website, 17173.com, since 2005 and real estate website, Focus.cn, since 2009. Additionally, Ms. Wang has managed other operations at Sohu.com, including wireless value-added services, the Auto Division, Finance Center, IT/Digital Channel and Go2Map since 2010. Prior to joining Sohu.com, Ms. Wang held positions with Internet Securities, Inc. and Motorola, Inc. Ms. Wang received a bachelor's degree in linguistics from China Industrial and Commercial University and a post-graduate diploma from National University of Singapore.
Mr. Hongyi Zhou has served as our independent director since June 2011. Mr. Zhou is a co-founder of Qihoo 360 Technology Co. Ltd. ("Qihoo 360"). He has served as Qihoo 360's chairman and chief executive officer since August 2006. Mr. Zhou has over ten years of managerial and operational experience in China's Internet industry. Prior to founding Qihoo 360, Mr. Zhou was a partner at IDG Ventures Capital since September 2005, a global network of venture capital funds, where he assisted small- to medium-sized software companies in sourcing funding to support their growth. Mr. Zhou was the chief executive officer of Yahoo! China from January 2004 to August 2005. In 1998, Mr. Zhou founded www.3721.com, a company engaged in Internet search and online marketing in China, and served as its chairman and chief executive officer until www.3721.com was acquired by Yahoo! China in January 2004. Mr. Zhou received his bachelor's degree in computer software in 1992 and his master's degree in system engineering in 1995 from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China.
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