Mr. Andrew Y. YAN
Non-executive Director

Mr. Andrew Y. YAN, born in 1957, is a Non-executive Director of the Company. He received his Bachelor Degree in Engineering from the Nanjing Aeronautic Institute in the PRC in 1982 and a Master degree from Princeton University in International Political Economy in 1989. Mr. Yan joined the Company in December 2007. He is currently the Managing Partner of SAIF Partners (“SAIF”). Prior to joining SAIF, he was the Managing Director and Head of the Hong Kong office of the Emerging Markets Partnership from 1994 to 2001. From 1993 to 1994, he worked at Sprint International Corporation as the Director of Strategic Planning and Business Development for the Asia Pacific Region. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Yan worked in the World Bank and the renowned Hudson Institute as an Economist and Research Fellow respectively in Washington, DC. From 1982 to 1984, he was the Chief Engineer at the Jianghuai Airplane Corp.. Mr. Yan was voted by the China Venture Capital Association as “The Venture Investor of the Year” in both 2004 and 2007. He was also selected as one of the “Fifty Finest Private Equity Investors in the World” by the Private Equity International in 2007, “No. 1 Venture Capitalist of the Year” by Forbes (China) in 2008 and 2009. He was the “Venture Capital Professional of the Year” by Asia Venture Capital Journal in 2009. Under Mr. Yan’s leadership, SAIF was voted as “VC firm of the Year” in 2004 and 2007 and it was also named as “The Best Performing Fund in Asia" by Private Equity International in 2005, 2006 and 2008, “The Best Growth Investment Fund of the Year" in 2009.
Currently, Mr. Yan is the Independent Non-executive Director of China Resources Land Limited, and Fosun International Limited; Non-executive Director of MOBI Development Co., Ltd. and NVC Lighting Holding Limited (all listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited). Mr. Yan is also a Director of Acorn International Inc., Giant Interactive Group Inc., (both listed on The New York Stock Exchange), ATA Inc., (listed on the NASDAQ, USA) and Eternal Asia Supply Chain Management Ltd. (listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange). He was previously a Director of China Digital TV Holding Co., Ltd (listed on The New York Stock Exchange) during the period from May 2004 to September 2008, and an Independent Non-executive Director of China Oilfield Services Limited and Stone Group Holdings Limited during the period from September 2002 to June 2009 and June 2001 to November 2009 respectively (all listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited).
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