Board of Directors
Mr. Jinhong Deng founded our Company in 2011 and has served as our chairman and chief executive officer since our inception. Mr. Deng started his career at Baidu in 2006 where he worked in the marketing department and served as a product manager. In 2009, Mr. Deng founded Yi Cun Wang (易村网), a digital platform for comparing market prices of agricultural products, and had served as its chief executive officer until 2010. Mr. Deng is the Industrial Entrepreneur of the Year awarded by the 2023 International Top 100 Future Agricultural Food Conference and the Pioneer of Digital Agriculture awarded by the 2020 World Digital Agriculture Conference. He is also one of the Fortune China’s 40 Under 40 business elites in 2020, the 36Kr’s 36 Under 36 brilliant entrepreneurs in 2020, and the top 10 entrepreneurs rewarded the For Good Awards on the 2022 China Forum of Social Enterprise and Investment of Impact. Mr. Deng graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree.
Chair of the Board
Mr. Min Liu has served as our director and senior vice president since March 2015. Mr. Liu was a lawyer specialized in intellectual property at Beijing Yonghe Law Firm from September 2004 to November 2006. From December 2006 to February 2015, he served at the legal department of Baidu Group where he was a legal counsel and later became the director of legal department. Mr. Liu graduated from Nanjing University in 2004 with a master of laws degree, and he received a Ph.D. degree in law from Peking University in 2014.
Mr. Shijie Chen has served as our chief financial officer since May 2019. Before joining us, Mr. Chen was a consulting manager at Moody’s Investor Services from March 2010 to April 2014. He later joined Lan Ju Investment Group where he was a project partner from June 2014 to April 2016. Mr. Chen had served as a senior investment director at Xiaomi Group from August 2016 to December 2018. Mr. Chen graduated from Beijing Second Foreign Language School in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree. He received a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University in 2010.
Mr. Mi Zhou is our co-founder and has served as our director since 2018. Mr. Zhou was a software engineer at Baidu Online Network Technology Co., Ltd. from July 2007 to December 2009. After that, he served as a senior technology manager in the technology division at Dangdang.com until he co-founded our company in March 2012. Mr. Zhou graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in July 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in information security.
Mr. Zhijia Liu has served as our director since 2018. Mr. Liu served as the director at Beijing Economic Information Center from 1997 to 2013. Mr. Liu first joined us in 2013 and served as the marketing manager until 2015. Mr. Liu later joined Dachuwang, an affiliate of our company, in 2015 and served as the marketing manager until 2016. Mr. Liu later founded Meichu Tianxia Network Technology Co., Limited in 2016 and served as the general manager until 2017. In 2018, Mr. Liu re-joined us as the manager of the innovation division. Mr. Liu received an associate degree from Capital Normal University in 1997. He graduated from the University of International Business and Economics with a bachelor’s degree in 2002.
Mr. Yu Zhang has served as our director since 2018. He has served as a vice president of Yiguo and the general manager of Shanghai ExFresh Logistic Technology Co., Ltd. since 2015. Mr. Zhang obtained his bachelor’s degree in industrial foreign trade from East China University of Science and Technology in 2000.
Mr. Xinghong Hua will serve as our independent director immediately upon the effectiveness of our registration statement on Form F-1, of which this prospectus is a part. Mr. Hua was a manager at the department of overseas branch management of the headquarter of Bank of China from 1994 to 1996. He had served as a project manager at the department of government relations of ARCO in Washington D.C., United States from 1997 to 1998. He later became a senior manager at Pace Global Energy Services from 1998 to 2004. In 2004, Mr. Hua joined Alcoa Inc. as an Asia-Pacific vice president until 2008. From 2008 to 2020, Mr. Hua was the greater China president and a managing director at Cerberus Capital Management LP. He served as a managing director at Lone Star Funds from 2020 to 2021. Mr. Hua has been the co-founder and chief executive officer of Zan Investment Advisory Limited in Hong Kong since 2022. Mr. Hua received his bachelor’s degree in 1991 and master’s degree in 1994 from Peking University School of International Relations. He also received a master’s degree in international economics, energy and environment from the Johns Hopkins University in 1998.
Independent Director
Ms. Xiaowei Wang will serve as our independent director immediately upon the effectiveness of our registration statement on Form F-1, of which this prospectus is a part. From 2000 to 2006, Ms. Wang served as a human resource director at China Dot Com Group. She became a human resource director at Motorola Mobile Technology (China) Limited in 2008. From 2013 to 2015, Ms. Wang was a human resource vice president at 99Bill Group. She later served as a human resource vice president at Xiaomi Group from 2016 to 2019. She has been a human resource vice president at Hello Group Inc (Nasdaq: MOMO) since 2019. Ms. Wang received a bachelor’s degree of economics from Jinnan University, Guangzhou in 1995 and a master’s degree of finance from the Chinese Academy of Social Science in 1998. She also received an EMBA degree from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in 2005.
Independent Director
Mr. Junchen Sun will serve as our independent director immediately upon the effectiveness of our registration statement on Form F-1, of which this prospectus is a part. Mr. Sun is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Inewborn Healthcare Limited since January 2024. Mr. Sun worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP Tianjin Branch from October 2011 to May 2015, with his last position held as a senior associate. He previously worked at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co., Ltd. Beijing Branch and MicroMedia Holdings Limited between October 2015 and February 2017. From February 2017 to April 2023, Mr. Sun worked at Beijing BlueCity Information & Technology Co., Ltd. from July 2020 to August 2022 (Nasdaq: BLCT), with his last position held as the chief financial officer. From April 2023 to April 2024, he worked at Newborn Town Inc. (HKEx: 9911), with his last position held as vice president of investment development. Since March 2024, Mr. Sun has served as an independent non-executive director and a member of the audit committee of the board of directors of China Vered Financial Holding Co., Ltd. (HKEx: 245). Mr. Sun obtained his bachelor’s degree in accountancy in June 2011 from the Tianjin University of Finance and Economics. He obtained his master’s degree in business administration from the Peking University in July 2018. He obtained another master’s degree in business administration from the Tsinghua University in June 2024. He was accredited as a Certified Public Accountant by the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants in April 2015.
Independent Director