Dr. HOU Yang (侯陽)

Independent non-executive Director

Dr. HOU Yang (侯陽), will be an independent non-executive Director upon Listing. Dr. Hou supervises and provides independent judgment to our Board.

Dr. Hou has served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Greater China region of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), an American multinational technology corporation, since March 2021, responsible for strategic leadership of sales, marketing, services and operations across the three subsidiaries that make up one of Microsoft’s most dynamic and innovative growth regions. He has also served as director of Shenzhou Netcom Technology Co., Ltd., a China-based software development company, since May 2021. Dr. Hou worked at Qualcomm(NASDAQ:QCOM),an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications corporation, for more than 8 years with the last position of global senior vice president. Prior to that, Dr. Hou worked at McKinsey, a global management consulting firm, for about 5 years.

Dr. Hou obtained his bachelor’s degree in physics from Peking University (北京大學) in China in June 2004 and received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in the United States in April 2008.