Board of Directors

Mr. Shanglue Xiao is our founder, and has served as the chairman of our board of directors and chief executive officer since our inception. Xiao is a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the e-commerce industry. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Xiao founded the Xiaoye Perfume, an online cosmetics retailer in China, in 2003. Mr. Xiao received his EMBA from China Europe International Business School.

Ms. Dan Li has served as our director since October 2021. Ms. Li is a managing director at CDH Investments Management (Hong Kong) Limited, where she has been employed since August 2014. Ms. Li served as a senior manager and director in Dinghui Investment Management (Tianjin) Company Limited from May 2012 to July 2014 and as a manager in the private asset management department of Ping An Trust from October 2010 to April 2012. Ms. Li obtained her bachelor's degree in accounting from the Civil Aviation University of China in 2003 and her master of business administration degree from Concordia University in Canada in 2007. Ms. Li is a Chartered Financial Analyst with the CFA Institute and a Hong Kong SFC licensed representative (Type 1 and 4).

Mr. Li-Lan Cheng has served as our director since May 2019. Mr. Cheng has served as the acting chief financial officer of Leju Holdings Limited (NYSE: LEJU) since June 2017. Mr. Cheng also served as Leju’s executive director from March 2014 to March 2017. Mr. Cheng has served as the chief operating officer of E-House (China) Holdings Limited, a real estate services company in China, since April 2012. He was E-House’s chief financial officer from November 2006 to April 2012. Prior to joining E-House, Mr. Cheng served as the chief financial officer of SouFun Holdings Limited, a real estate internet company in China, from 2005 to 2006. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Cheng served as an executive director and the chief financial officer of SOHO China Limited, a real estate developer in Beijing. Mr. Cheng was an assistant director and the head of the Asian transportation sector investment banking group of ABN AMRO Asia from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Cheng currently serves as an independent director of 51job, Inc. (NASDAQ: JOBS), a human resource service provider, an independent director of LAIX Inc. (NYSE: LAIX), an artificial intelligence company for English language training, and an executive director of E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Limited (2048.HK), a real estate transaction service provider in China. Mr. Cheng received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Cheng is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).

Mr. Gao Wang has served as our director since May 2019. Mr. Wang has been a professor of marketing at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) since 2009. Prior to joining CEIBS, Mr. Wang was an associate professor of marketing at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University from 2002 to 2008. Before joining the faculty of Tsinghua University, he worked as a manager of the Strategic Analytics Group at the Minute Maid Company, a division of Coca Cola in Houston, for two years with responsibility for sales planning/evaluation and marketing plan. Prior to that, Mr. Wang was a senior consultant at Information Resources Inc. (IRI) in Chicago from 1998 to 2000 with responsibility for marketing model development. Mr. Wang currently serves as the supervisor of Beijing Zhuoyuezhiye Consulting Company Limited and as non-executive director of the following companies: GOME Electrical Appliances Holding Limited, Canature Environmental Products Co., Ltd and Sineng Electric Company Limited. Mr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in demography from Renmin University of China and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Yale University.

Mr. Suqin Xi has served as our director since January 2020. Mr. Xi has been a consultant of Puhua Capital since October 2019. Prior to joining Puhua Capital, Mr. Xi served as a counsel of Hangzhou Municipal Market Supervision Bureau from 2014 to 2016. From 2009 to 2014, Mr. Xi was the director of Hangzhou Municipal Financial Services Office, where he was responsible for developing and managing local financial services. Prior to that, Mr. Xi served as the deputy director of Hangzhou Administration for Industry and Commerce, from 1998 to 2009, where he was in charge of company registration, trademark advertising supervision, e-government and policy related affairs. Mr. Xi received his bachelor’s degree in history from Hangzhou University in 1982.