Management
Tao Zou has served as our director since December 2016, and as the vice chairman of the board of directors since December 2018. Mr. Zou joined Kingsoft Group in 1998 and currently serves as an executive director and the chief executive officer at Kingsoft Group. Mr. Zou served as a director at Xunlei Limited (Nasdaq: XNET) from 2016 to 2020, and also serves as a director at Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM), a chairman of KSO (SSE: 688111) and a director of 21Vianet Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNET). Mr. Zou received a bachelor’s degree in science from Nankai University in 1997.
Shouhu Wang has served as our president since February 2022. Mr. Wang is charging for business segment of public service sector and overall operation and management of Camelot Information Systems Inc. (“Camelot”), deepening the comprehensive integration of Camelot with the Company and promote the overall deployment efficiency in enterprise cloud services of Kingsoft Cloud.
Mr. Wang joined Camelot in 2016 and is responsible for its overall operation and management. Mr. Wang has over 27 years of experience and expertise in enterprise service management and corporate consulting. Prior to joining Camelot, Mr. Wang worked at International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”) (NYSE: IBM) for more than 19 years. He joined IBM as an associate partner in 2002, and was promoted as a Vice President of IBM in 2011. During his employment at IBM, he successively served as an associate partner from 2002 to 2005, a partner from 2005 to 2011, a vice president based in Beijing from 2011 to 2014 and a vice president based in New York, the United States from 2014 to 2016. From 1997 to 2002, he successively served as a consultant, a senior consultant, a principal consultant, and a director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers before PwC Consulting merged with IBM in 2002. Mr. Wang received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1991 and a master’s degree in engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 1994.
Haijian He has served as our chief financial officer since January 2020. Mr. He is charging for financial planning, treasury, legal affairs, strategic investments, and investor relations. Prior to joining us in 2020, Mr. He served as an executive director of the TMT (telecommunications, media and technology) group and the mergers and acquisitions group sequentially at Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC from 2015 to 2020. Mr. He has extensive experience in complex merger and acquisition transactions. Mr. He was an associate of the TMT investment banking division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 2014 to 2015 in Hong Kong, and was a vice president at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. from 2010 to 2013 in New York. Mr. He received an MBA from University of Chicago in 2014, a master’s degree in electronic engineering from Southeast University in 2006, and a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Southeast University in 2003. Mr. He is also a CFA charter holder.
Shouxing Liang currently serves as our chief operating officer. Mr. Liang joined us in 2015 and served as our senior vice president in charge of management of our public cloud and overseas strategies. Prior to joining us, Mr. Liang served as manager of northern China at Qiniu Cloud from 2014 to 2015. Mr. Liang was a senior director of CC Video from 2011 to 2014. Mr. Liang served as a director of the industry department at ChinaCache (Nasdaq: CCIH) from 2006 to 2011. Mr. Liang received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Fuzhou University in 2000.
Kaiyan Tian serves as our vice president and is responsible for organizational affairs, human resources, strategy development and investment. Prior to joining us in 2013, Mr. Tian served as the business assistant to the chief executive officer and the strategy director of Kingsoft Group from 2012 to 2013. Prior to Kingsoft Group, he worked as a game producer at Zynga from 2011 to 2012. He was a program manager at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) from 2007 to 2011. He was a R&D manager at Samsung (KRX: 005930) from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Tian received a bachelor’s degree in communication engineering in 2001 and a master’s degree in computer science and technology in 2004 from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
Tao Liu serves as our vice president and is responsible for development and management of our business with financial service sector clients. Prior to joining us in 2015, Mr. Liu served as a data center architect at Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) from 2009 to 2015. Mr. Liu received a bachelor’s degree in 2004 and a PhD in 2009 from the University of Science and Technology of China.
Yifeng Qian serves as our vice president and is responsible for research and development. Prior to joining us in 2014, Mr. Qian served as an engineer and an architect at Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) from 2010 to 2014. Mr. Qian received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 2007 and a master’s degree in Computer Software and Theory from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010.