Board of Directors
Mr. Shengwen (Roy) Rong will serve as our independent director immediately upon the SEC's declaration of the effectiveness of our registration statement on Form F-1, of which this prospectus is a part. Mr. Rong currently serves as an independent director of Qudian Inc. (NYSE: QD), X Financial (NYSE: XYF) and MOGU Inc. (NYSE: MOGU). From February 2017 to September 2018, Mr. Rong served as the senior vice president and chief financial officer at Yixia Technology Co., Ltd, a leading live video broadcast and short-video platform in China. Prior to that, he served as the chief financial officer at Quixey, Inc. from 2015 to 2016, the chief financial officer at UCWeb from 2012 to 2014, and the chief financial officer at Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co., Ltd, an NYSE-listed company, from 2010 to 2012. Mr. Rong received his bachelor's degree in international finance from Renmin University in 1991, master's degree in accounting from West Virginia University in 1996, and MBA degree from University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2000. Mr Rong is a Certified Public Accountant in the United States.
Mr. Guojie Shi has been a teaching assistant for several courses at Hupan University since 2020. Mr. Shi, a founding member of Taobao.com and had served as the head of its marketing and business development department, and worked in the organization department at Taobao.com, Koubei.com, Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba Group from 2004 to 2013. Prior to that, Mr. Shi served as a marketing manager at A. O. Smith (China) Water Heater Co., Ltd. from 2002 to 2004, a marketing manager at Shanghai Sanming Foodstuff Co., Ltd. from 2000 to 2002, and a brand manager at Ting Hsin International Group Tianjin Tingyi Food Co., Ltd (Shanghai branch) from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Shi received his bachelor’s degree in water conservancy and hydropower engineering from Sichuan University in 1998 and his postgraduate diploma in integrated marketing communications from the University of Hong Kong in 2002.