Board of Directors

Mr. Andy Chang Liu is the Company’s founder and has served as a director of the Company since February 2013 and chief executive officer since its inception. Mr. Liu worked as principal of Shenyang New Oriental School and assistant vice president at Beijing New Oriental Education & Technology Group from May 2010 to May 2011, and prior to that, as principal of Changchun New Oriental School from March 2005 to May 2010, and as an English teacher from July 2003 to February 2005. Mr. Liu received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in chemical engineering and technology from Tianjin University in 2001 and 2004, respectively.

Mr. Qin Wen has served as the Company’s chief operating officer since February 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Wen worked at 17EdTech in several positions, including vice president of in-school solution, from May 2017 to February 2019. From 2010 to 2017, Mr. Wen worked in several positions at Meituan (HKEX: 3690), including as general manager of the retailing business unit and chief financial officer of the in-store dining business group, general manager of the in-store visits business unit, senior director of product operations department, director of sales operations department and city manager of Xi’an. Mr. Wen received his bachelor’s degree in financial management from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2007.

* He will serve as the Company’s director starting from the SEC’s declaration of effectiveness of the registration statement on Form F-1.

Mr. Michael Chao Du has served as the Company’s director since July 2020 and chief financial officer since February 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Du worked in the investment banking department of Deutsche Bank from 2011 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2020 in several positions, most recently as vice president. Mr. Du worked as an analyst on the investment banking team of Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong Limited from 2009 to 2011. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Du worked as an analyst in the merger and acquisition team at KPMG Corporate Finance Limited. Mr. Du received his bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from the University of Hong Kong in 2008.

Mr. Tuck Lye Koh has served as the Company’s director since June 2013. Mr. Koh co-founded Shunwei Capital, a China-based, technology-focused venture capital fund, in 2011 and has served as its chief executive officer since then. Mr. Koh has extensive investment experience, spanning early to growth stage investments in multiple industries, including TMT, manufacturing, retail and consumer and logistics. At Shunwei Capital, Mr. Koh is responsible for overall investment and management, and has led the firm’s investments in a wide variety of technology-based entities. Mr. Koh also has served as a director at Agora, Inc. (Nasdaq: API) since May 2018. Mr. Koh served as a director of Xiaomi Corporation (HKEX: 1810) from August 2013 to October 2019. Mr. Koh also currently serves, and has served, as a director of multiple privately held technology companies. Before co-founding Shunwei Capital in 2011, Mr. Koh held various management positions in several international institutions including C.V. Starr, GIC, AIG and Deutsche Bank. Mr. Koh received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1996 and his master of science degree in industry engineering (engineering management) from Stanford University in 1999.

Mr. Jiawei Gan has served as an operating partner of Hillhouse Capital Group since 2018, responsible for providing consulting services to invested companies. From 2011 to 2016, Mr. Gan worked in several positions at Meituan (HKEX: 3690), including as chief operation officer and president of the in-store food voucher business unit. From 2000 to 2011, Mr. Gan worked in several positions at Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), including as vice president of sales, senior director of sales operation team, internet operation director and marketing director, focusing on sales and marketing. Mr. Gan received his bachelor’s degree in food engineering from Zhejiang Gongshang University in 1995 and his EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School in 2011.

* He will serve as the Company’s independent director starting from the SEC’s declaration of effectiveness of the registration statement on Form F-1.

Mr. Bing Yuan is a managing director of Hony Capital and a member of Hony Capital’s executive committee, responsible for its equity investment operations. Mr. Yuan joined Hony Capital in April 2009 and has served as a managing director of the private equity department since January 2010. Prior to joining Hony Capital, Mr. Yuan served as a managing director of the direct investment department of Morgan Stanley Asia Limited from 2008 to 2009. Before that, Mr. Yuan served as a managing director of the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley Asia Limited from April 2004 to June 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Yuan served as a vice president with Credit Suisse First Boston in Hong Kong and New York from August 1998 to March 2004, focusing on corporate finance and merger & acquisitions transactions in the technology, media and telecom industry. During his investment banking time, Mr. Yuan assisted numerous prominent Chinese state-owned enterprises and private sector companies in completing their initial public offerings, corporate finance and merger & acquisition transactions. Mr. Yuan also worked as a financial analyst in project finance with Fieldstone Private Equity LLP in New York from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Yuan received his bachelor’s degree in English from Nanjing University in July 1990 and received his master’s degree in international relations in June 1993 and his Juris Doctor degree in June 1998 from Yale University.

* He will serve as the Company’s independent director starting from the SEC’s declaration of effectiveness of the registration statement on Form F-1.

Mr. Wu is chairman and CEO of MiningLamp Technology Co Ltd. (“Mining Lamp”), a leading artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data analytics company he founded in 2014 that helps public service organizations and businesses with digital transformation. Prior to founding MiningLamp, Mr. Wu founded Miaozhen Systems in 2006, a platform for internet user behavior and marketing analytics, and served as its chairman until it was acquired by Mining Lamp in 2019. Mr. Wu is also a joint creator of the HAO AI theoretical framework. Mr. Wu has 20 years of experience in software engineering and research, and holds more than 130 patents in China and internationally. Mr. Wu received a B.S. degree in fundamental mathematics and a M.S. degree in computer software and theory from Peking University. Mr. Wu is currently a PhD candidate at the School of Software & Microelectronics at Peking University.