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Board of Directors
Donald L. Lucas - Chairman of 51job, Inc. and Director of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Oracle Corporation
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Donald L. Lucas is the chairman of the board and has been an independent director of 51job since February 2004. In 1960, Mr. Lucas began a seven-year participation, including acting as both a general partner and a limited partner with Draper, Gaither & Anderson, the first venture capital firm organized on the West Coast in the United States. Since 1967, Mr. Lucas has been actively engaged in venture capital activities as a private individual. Mr. Lucas currently serves as a board member of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Oracle Corporation. He also serves as a director for several privately held companies. Mr. Lucas is the former chairman of the board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy and Research and a Trustee of Santa Clara University. Mr. Lucas received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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David K. Chao has been a director of 51job since 2000. Mr. Chao is a Co-Founder and General Partner of DCM, an early stage technology venture capital firm that manages over US$2.0 billion. DCM has offices in Menlo Park, USA, Beijing, China and Tokyo, Japan. Prior to joining DCM, Mr. Chao was a founding executive of Japan Communications, Inc., a public provider of mobile data and voice communications services in Japan. He also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in San Francisco. Prior to that, Mr. Chao worked in marketing and product management at Apple Computer and was one of the account executives for Recruit Co., Ltd. Mr. Chao serves on the boards of directors of Renren Inc. and numerous DCM portfolio companies. He is a Management Board member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Board of Trustees. He also serves on the board of directors of Legend Capital. Mr. Chao received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and East Asian Studies (Anthropology) with high honors from Brown University and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
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Hisayuki Idekoba has been a director of 51job since December 2011. Mr. Idekoba has been Corporate Executive Officer, Global Investment, Development & Alliance of Recruit Co., Ltd. since April 2012. Idekoba joined Recruit in 1999. In over 10 years at Recruit, he has been involved in sales, marketing and various online development activities for a number of websites, including Jalan net (traveling booking site), Hot Pepper Beauty (hair salon information site) and Ponpare (group buying site). Mr. Idekoba received his Bachelor degree in Commerce from Waseda University in 1999. |
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James Jianzhang Liang has been a director of 51job since October 2010. Mr. Liang is a co-founder and the chairman of the board of directors of Ctrip.com International, Ltd., a leading travel service provider of hotel accommodations, airline tickets, packaged tours and corporate travel management in China. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Ctrip from 2000 to January 2006 and has been a member of Ctrip’s board of directors since inception. Prior to founding Ctrip, Mr. Liang held a number of technical and managerial positions with Oracle Corporation from 1991 to 1999 in the United States and China, including the head of the ERP consulting division of Oracle China from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Liang also serves on the board of directors of Home Inns & Hotel Management Inc. and Jiayuan.com International Ltd. Mr. Liang received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also attended an undergraduate program at Fudan University. |
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Rick Yan has been Chief Executive Officer and President and a director since 2000. Mr. Yan was an investor and advisor to 51job from inception. Prior to joining 51job, he was a Director and the Head of China Practice at Bain & Company, an international strategy consulting company. In his 11-year tenure with Bain & Company, Mr. Yan was widely acknowledged as an expert in the consumer products and technology sectors. Prior to his affiliation with Bain & Company, Mr. Yan worked at Hewlett-Packard in Hong Kong for four years and was awarded Marketing Executive of the Year. Mr. Yan received his Bachelor of Engineering degree and Master of Philosophy degree from the University of Hong Kong and his MBA with distinction from INSEAD in France. |
