Board of Directors  

Mr. Andrew Y. Yan

Independent Director, Chairman of Compensation Committee and Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee

 

 

 

Mr. Andrew Y. Yan has served as an independent director of our company since October 2006. Mr. Yan is a managing partner of SAIF Partners. Before joining Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund in 2001, Mr. Yan was a managing director and the head of the Hong Kong office of Emerging Markets Partnership. From 1994 to 1995, he was the director responsible for strategic planning and business development for the Asia Pacific region at Sprint International Corporation. Mr. Yan has also worked as a research fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., the World Bank and the State Commission for Economic Restructuring of the State Council of the PRC. Mr. Yan was elected as ‘‘Venture Investor of the Year’’ in 2004 and 2007. He was also selected as one of the ‘‘Fifty Finest Private Equity Investors in the World’’ by the Private Equity International in 2007 and ‘‘No. 1 Venture Capitalist of the Year’’ by Forbes (China) in 2008. He is currently an independent non-executive director of China Resources Land Limited and Fosun International Limited. He is the non-executive director of Digital China Holdings Ltd. (all 5 companies are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited). He is also a Director of Acorn International Inc., (listed on The New York Stock Exchange), ATA Inc. (listed on the NASDAQ) and Eternal Asia Supply Chain Management Ltd. (listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange). Mr. Yan received a master of Arts degree in International Political Economy from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautic Engineering from the Nanjing Aeronautic Institute.