Neil Nanpeng Shen is one of the co-founders of our company and has been our company's director since our inception. Mr. Shen is the founding managing partner of Sequoia Capital China.
Mr. Shen co-founded Ctrip, the largest travel consolidator in China, and served as its chief financial officer from 2000 to October 2005 and as president from August 2003 to October 2005. Prior to founding Ctrip, Mr. Shen had worked for more than eight years in the investment banking industry in New York and Hong Kong. He was a director at Deutsche Bank Hong Kong where he worked from 1996 to 1999.
Prior to 1996, he had worked at Chemical Bank, Lehman Brothers and Citibank in various investment banking areas. Currently, Mr. Shen is a director of Ctrip and also an independent director, the chairman of the audit committee and a member of the compensation and nominating committee of Focus Media Holding Limited, a Nasdaq-listed media advertising company based in China.
Mr. Shen received his bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China and his master's degree from the School of Management at Yale University. |