Board of Directors
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Meisong Lai
Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Meisong Lai is our founder and has served as chairman of our board of directors since May 2013 and chief executive officer since our inception. Mr. Lai was a former deputy chairman of the China Express Delivery Association. Mr. Lai is a prominent figure in China’s express delivery industry and has been deeply involved in the industry for over 20 years. Mr. Lai studied at the “Lakeside University” and Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance. Mr. Meisong Lai is a brother-in-law to Mr. Jianchang Lai.
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Jilei Wang
Director and Vice President of Infrastructure Management
Mr. Jilei Wang has been our director since May 2013 and has served as our vice president of infrastructure management since October2012. From October 2009 to March 2012, Mr. Wang served as a deputy general manager of Beijing ZTO Daying Logistics Co., Ltd., our then network partner in Beijing.
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Hongqun Hu
Director and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Hongqun Hu has been our director since May 2022 and has served as our chief operating officer since June 2017. Mr. Hu has thirty years of experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining us, Mr. Hu served as the chairman of Zhejiang Tonglu Rural Commercial Bank from March 2016 to February 2017, and the governor and chairman of Zhejiang Tonglu Rural Cooperation Bank from March 2008 to March 2016, respectively. Mr. Hu graduated from Ningbo University in China with a major in finance in July 2003 and studied at the advanced class in modern executive business administration in Zhejiang University from January 2006 to January 2007.
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Xing Liu
Independent Director
Mr. Xing Liu has served as our director since May 2013. Mr. Liu is currently a partner of HongShan, which he joined in May 2007. Mr. Liu has served as an independent director of Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS) (“Vipshop”) since January 2011. Mr. Liu received an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in May 2004, a master’s degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University in December 1995, and graduated from Fudan University in July 1992 with a major in management information systems.
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Qin Charles Huang
Independent Director
Mr. Qin Charles Huang became our director in October 2016. Mr. Huang is the chairman and chief executive officer of CEG (Asia) Limited, an education services provider for students, executives and professionals in Greater China and has been a director since its inception in 1999. Mr. Huang has served on the board of directors of Sohu.com Inc.(NASDAQ: SOHU) since 2001. Mr. Huang previously held positions at Deutsche Bank, New York and Hong Kong, including as head of Asian securitisation, and has also served as senior vice president of Prudential Securities Inc., New York. He received a master of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September 1990. Mr. Huang is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Herman Yu
Independent Director
Mr. Herman YU has been our director since October 2016. Mr. YU advises and invests in high tech companies in the AI, internet, Web3, fintech and green energy sectors. Previously, Mr. YU worked at Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU, HKEX: 9888), an AI and internet company, serving as its chief strategy officer from August 2021 to March 2023 and as its chief financial officer from September 2017 to November 2021. Prior to joining Baidu, Mr. YU served as the chief financial officer of Weibo Corporation (NASDAQ: WB, HKEX: 9898), a social media company, from 2015 to 2017, and as the chief financial officer of SINA Corporation, an internet portal, from 2006 to 2015. Mr. YU is a California certified public accountant and holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Master of Accounting from the University of Southern California.
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Fang Xie
Independent Director
Ms. Fang Xie, also known as Ms. Heather Xie, has been our director since November 2021. Ms. Xie has been independent non-executive director of CStone Pharmaceuticals since November 2025. Ms. Xie has been independent non-executive director of DST Sustainable Technology (Shenzhen) Co. ltd since August 2025. Ms. Xie was a director and portfolio investment manager at Seres Capital from May 2021 to October 2025. Ms. Xie provided management consulting and leadership coaching services to startup companies and investment management companies from July 2018. Ms. Xie joined Prologis in March 2008, which later span off its China and Japan businesses and formed Global Logistic Properties (“GLP”). Ms. Xie took GLP public in Singapore Stock Exchange and served as Chief Financial Officer of GLP from May 2010 to January 2018. Prior to GLP, Ms. Xie worked in General Electric Companies in the US and Asia from 1994 with increasing responsibilities, including as head of Treasury of GE Asia Pacific, Controller of GE Asia Pacific, Chief Financial Officer of GE infrastructure Asia and GE Toshiba Silicones China. Ms. Xie received a master’s degree in economics from Cornell University in 1994 and a bachelor and a master degree in industrial economy from Renmin University of China in 1986 and 1989,respectively.
