Biography

Changqing Ye has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2019. From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Ye served as the Managing Director, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the investment committee at CITIC Private Equity Funds, a PRC-based private equity fund. Prior to that, from 1993 to 2011, Mr. Ye worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP, most recently as the Partner and Service Line Leader of the firm’s advisory services and transaction services at the firm’s Shanghai Office. Mr. Ye currently serves as an independent non-executive director of Baozun Inc. (Nasdaq: BZUN), Niu Technologies (Nasdaq: NIU), Jinxin Fertility Group Limited (HKEX Stock Code: 1951) and Hygeia Healthcare Holdings Co., Limited (HKEX Stock Code: 6078). He previously served as an independent non-executive director of Luzhou Bank Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Luzhou City Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. (HKEX Stock Code: 1983)), VNET Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNET) and NWTN Inc. (Nasdaq: NWTN). Mr. Ye received his Bachelor’s in Journalism from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, and his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Mr. Ye has been a Certified Public Accountant of the PRC since 1994.