Chen Fangruo

Mr. Chen Fangruo, aged 55, is currently an independent non-executive Director of the Company. He has served as independent non-executive Director of the Company since he joined the Company in December 2018. Mr. Chen graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985 with dual Bachelor’s Degrees in Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering and Computer Science and Technology. In 1987, he obtained a Master’s Degree from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. He then received his Ph.D. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chen worked at Columbia Business School in 1992, successively serving as the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Lifetime Associate Professor, and Full Professor. In 2005, he became the Lifetime Chair Professor. During the foregoing period, Mr. Chen acted as a distinguished visiting professor at Stanford School of Business, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, Tianjin University and other prestigious universities at home and abroad. Mr. Chen has served as a visiting chair professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2017. He is currently a “Guangqi” fund sponsored professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Dean of Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Dean of the Industry Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Since 2019, he has served concurrently as the vice chairman of the National MBA Education Instruction Committee and a director of the AMBA & BGA’s International Management Board.