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Yichen Zhang

Independent Director at Sina

Yichen Zhang has served as a director since May 2002 and as a director of Weibo from January 2014 to December 2015. Since 2003, Mr. Zhang has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited (“CCHL,” formerly known as CITIC Capital Markets Holdings Ltd.), a China-focused investment management and advisory firm. Prior to founding CITIC Capital, Mr. Zhang was an Executive Director of CITIC Pacific and President of CITIC Pacific Communications. He was previously a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch responsible for Debt Capital Market activities for the Greater China region. Mr. Zhang began his career at Greenwich Capital Markets in 1987 and became Bank of Tokyo’s Head of Proprietary Trading in New York in the early 1990s. Mr. Zhang returned to China in the mid-1990s and advised the Chinese Ministry of Finance and other Chinese agencies on the development of the domestic government bond market. He is also a member of the Eleventh and Twelfth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Mr. Zhang is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Timeline

  • Independent Director

    Current role