Gu Yongqiang, founder and CEO of Youku, is fully responsible for the strategic planning and operation management of Youku. In June 2005, 1 1, All-in-One network was established, and a search fund of $3 million was launched. On June 2 1 2006, Youku was launched in public beta, with Gu Yongqiang as CEO, which made great contributions to the development of Youku into the most leading video media, the most influential brand and the most potential future star in China. 1989, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and joined Bain, an internationally renowned management consulting company, to engage in management consulting. 1992 was admitted to Stanford University and got an MBA. 1994 returned to Beijing from Silicon Valley and worked for Guo Fu Group, a venture capital company, as vice president, engaged in venture capital projects in the fields of media, entertainment and industry. 1999 joined Sohu in March and officially entered the Internet field. During his tenure at Sohu, he successively served as the chief financial officer and senior vice president, chief operating officer, president and chief operating officer of Sohu, and played a key role in the company's business operation and development, products and technology, company financing and listing, and large-scale project cooperation.
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President
Liu Dele graduated from Shanghai Maritime University with a bachelor's degree in economics, and then studied at Harvard Business School. In 2006, he joined Youku as CFO and senior vice president, and was a member of Youku's early entrepreneurial team. Liu Dele has rich experience in corporate financial operation and management, and has made important contributions to building Youku into the most influential brand and profitable entity in the field of Internet video in China. 1993 worked for China co., ltd; 1995 joined the venture capital company Richner Group as an investment manager, engaged in industrial and entertainment venture capital projects; 1997 joined Power Pacific Corporation Limited as vice president, responsible for private equity investment and QFII (qualified foreign institutional investor) China capital market investment business. Liu Dele has rich knowledge and experience in financial management. He has served as a director of CITIC Power Co., Ltd., Bombardier Bauer Sifang Railway Transportation Co., Ltd., BabyCare Ltd, Adaltis Asia Ltd and an alternate director of Vimicro Inc
Chief Technology Officer (chief technology officer)
Jian Yao joined Youku as Chief Technology Officer in July 2006. Jian Yao graduated from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Southwest Jiaotong University in his early years, and worked in Internet operation and development from 65438 to 0996. In 2000, Jian Yao joined ChinaRen and developed a series of refreshing new Internet applications, including the famous "Alumni Record"; In September of the same year, he led the technical consultant team to complete the first thorough intranet transformation since the establishment of Sohu website, which was called "Four Musketeers of Technology". Jian Yao has held technical management positions in many companies, including Compaq Computer, New Oriental Online, the largest online education service platform in China, and I love my card website, the first credit card portal in China. After Jian Yao joined Youku, he led the technical team to build his own CDN network, and achieved a breakthrough from zero traffic to 200 million video playback per day. At the same time, lead Youku's technical team in product design, WEB development, bottom-level research and development, advertising system, wireless business, operation and maintenance, etc. , created and constantly consolidated the excellent word-of-mouth formula of "Fast, Complete and Bright" Youku in the industry.