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Li Huagang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Male, He has served as the chief operating officer and executive director of Haier Electrical Appliances Group Co., Ltd., a controlling subsidiary of the Company. He is currently the director, general manager and chief marketing officer of China of Haier Smart Home Co., Ltd.. He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1991, and graduated from China Europe International Business School in 2014 with a master’s degree in executive master of business administration from senior management.
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Gong Wei
iVice Chairman
Male, Mr. Gong joined the Group in July 1994 and is currently the Vice President of the Company and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company since January 2010 and the Deputy General Manager and Director of the Company since April 2013. Director of various subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. Gong graduated from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, the PRC in December 2011 with an executive Master of Business Administration degree. Mr. Gong has received the following honorary titles, such as the title of "2012-2014 Qingdao City Model Worker" in 2015 and the title of "National Excellent Accountant Worker" in December 2005, and the title of "New Financial Magazine" in April 2012. Honored as "China's Top 10 CFO Figures of the Year and 2020 China International Financial Leaders of the Year". Mr. Gong obtained the fellowship of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in March 2020.
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Kevin Nolan
Executive Director
Male, Mr Nolan graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1989, where he was also a member of the Honors Scholar Program. He currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Appliances, a Haier company.After Mr. Nolan joined GE, he held multiple engineering and manufacturing roles across GE ED&C. He later advanced through leadership positions within GE’s appliance, lighting, and industrial divisions. From 2001 to 2006, he led sourcing and new product introduction efforts, launching over 150 products annually while establishing global sourcing capabilities, notably in China, to enhance profitability and drive operational efficiency. He was instrumental in developing new NPI processes and building a quality-focused culture across GE Consumer and Industrial Products
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Yu Hon To, David
Non-executive Director
Male, holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and an Associate Member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Yu is a chartered accountant with over 40 years’ experience in the fields of auditing, corporate finance (including advisory on IPO, mergers & acquisitions and financial restructuring), financial investigation and corporate governance. Mr. Yu was formerly a partner of Coopers & Lybrand (now merged as PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Hong Kong with extensive experience in the corporate finance advisory assignments in Greater China for Hong Kong corporations, private equity groups and multinationals. Mr. Yu served as an independent non-executive director and the chairman of the audit committee of Haier Electronics Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Company, over the past three years. Mr. Yu had served various public offices including being a member of the Listing Committee of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange from 1992 to 1995, a member of the Investment Committee and the Audit Committee of Employees Retraining Board (established under the Employees Retraining Ordinance of Hong Kong) from 1999 to 2020, and a member of the Board of Review (established under Inland Revenue Ordinance of Hong Kong) from 2006 to 2012.
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CHIEN Da-chun
Non-executive Director
Male, Mr. CHIEN was formerly the ASEAN executive president of International Business Machines Corporation (‘‘IBM’’), and the chairman and chief executive officer of IBM Greater China. Mr. CHIEN graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Tamkang University in Taiwan. He has studied in the Advanced Management Program of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business and IBM’s Global Executive Program. He was a director of ENN Group and is currently a professor of management practice and academic director of the EE Center at the School of Business of Renmin University of China.
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LI Shaohua
Non-executive Director
Male, Mr. LI graduated from Ohio State University and Georgia State University in the United States and obtained a MA and a MBA degree, respectively. He holds various international professional certifications such as CPA (Certified Public Accountant), CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor), CRMA (Certification in Risk Management Assurance) and CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control). Mr. LI has over 30 years of working experience in internal and external auditing, risk management, compliance governance, financial and operational management. He has worked for Deloitte (one of the Big Four accounting firms), and held important positions in various institutions, including AKZO Nobel (a Fortune Global 500 company), and Trina Solar (a listed company). Moreover, he has served as a director and vice president of internal audit and internal control of Haier Electronics Group Co., Ltd. and is currently the general manager of Haier Group’s Audit and Risk Control Committee, Chief Audit and Risk Control Officer, and the chairman of the Haier Group’s ESG execution committee.
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SUN Danfeng
Employee Representative Director
Female, Ms. SUN is currently the general manager of digital transformation of the Company. Ms. SUN graduated from China Agricultural University in 1998 with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and joined Haier in August of the same year. Ms. SUN graduated from Renmin University of China in 2015 and obtained an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) degree. Ms. SUN has been working in the home appliance industry for many years, specialising in the building and operation of user digitisation, employee digitisation and customer digitisation systems. She has served as strategic director of the business flow promotion division, general manager of the mega business exchange platform, and general manager of digital marketing for the China platform. She has extensive experience in digital system research, system construction, digital transformation, technology management and decision-making consulting. During her tenure, she has made remarkable achievements in big data analysis, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and digital transformation and upgrading of industries. She has won the 2021 ICT industry Mulan Award, and the title of Shandong Province Big Data Industry Leader in 2022. She is a management expert of scientific and technological expert pool in Shandong Province.
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Wong Hak Kun
Independent Director
Male, He holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, with more than 36 years of audit, assurance and management experience in Deloitte China, has been a partner of Deloitte China since 1992, and served as a member of the board of directors of Deloitte China from 2000 to 2008. Before retiring in May 2017, Mr. Wong was act as Deloitte China's National Audit & Assurance Managing Partner. Mr. Wong is member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) Limited (551HK), Lung Kee (Bermuda) Holdings Limited (255HK) and Zhejiang Cangnan Instrument Group Co., Ltd. (1743HK).
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Li Shipeng
Independent Director
Male, holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from University of Science and Technology of China, and a PhD degree from Lehigh University, USA. Mr. Li has extensive experience in areas such as Internet of Things technology, and artificial intelligence. Mr. Li is currently the Executive President of Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Researcher and Deputy Dean of Microsoft Research Asia, Chief Technology Officer of Cogobuy Group, and Vice President of iFlytek Group. Mr. Li is a member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE fellow). He was listed as one of the world’s top 1,000 computer scientists by Guide2Research and ranked top 20 in Mainland China in 2020. Mr. Li is a renowned expert in areas such Internet, computer vision, cloud computing, Internet of Things and artificial intelligence.
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Wu Qi
Independent Director
Male, He has 25 years of work and management experience in world-class management and consulting companies. He is currently a senior consultant for Foxconn’s D sub-business group strategy and intelligent manufacturing and a consultant of Xnode, a famous accelerator for startups. He served as the vice president (Global) and vice chairman (Greater China) of Accenture, and the chairman of Shun Zhe Technology Development Co., Ltd. He was a member and the president (Greater China) of Roland Berger’s Global Management Committee, a member of Roland Berger’s Global Supervisory Board, and non-executive director of Grinm Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. He was awarded 2015 Outstanding Talent in Jing’an District, Shanghai. Mr. WU’s past experience in consulting industry involves transportation/logistics, high-tech manufacturing, tourism, finance, consumer goods, real estate, government departments and other industries. His has extensive experience in fields such as development strategy, organizational change, sales and brand strategy, corporate innovation, digital transformation and intelligent manufacturing, post-merger integration, regional industrial and economic development and upgrading. He is a well-known expert in Industry 4.0, transportation and regional planning and development in the PRC. He served as a consultant for Hangzhou Bay Development Planning, a member of the Intelligent Manufacturing Expert Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Government, deputy head of the 13th Five-Year Planning Expert Committee of Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, vice chairman of China Cold Chain Alliance and other social positions.
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WANG Hua
Independent Director
Male, Mr. WANG received a Bachelor’s degree in automation from Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China in July 1999 and a Master’s degree in business administration from Stanford University, California, the United States in June 2006. Mr. WANG is the co-founder of Sinovation Ventures, an established technology investment company in China, and currently serves as the co-CEO and Managing Partner of the investment department of Sinovation Ventures. Mr. WANG has extensive experience in capital investment and information technology industry, mainly focusing on AI and cutting-edge technologies and expanding to the upstream and downstream industrial chains. He led investments in technology projects such as 4Paradigm, AInnovation, WeRide, Horizon Robotics, Zhihu, Waterdrop Inc, Momenta, Luchen, and Silicon Mobility. From September 2006 to October 2009, Mr. WANG worked at Google China’s Business Development Headquarters, where he built Google China’s premium ad network. He was also responsible for managing investments during his three years at Google China. Prior to joining Google China, he founded Shanghai Yinda Technology Group Co., Ltd., a company that provides technology solutions to telecommunications operators and equipment providers. In addition, Mr. WANG has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of AInnovation Technology Group Co., Ltd. since 6 February 2018. He has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of Maoyan Entertainment since 22 August 2018.