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Peter Yip is the chief executive officer of the Company and a vice chairman of our board of directors. In addition, Mr. Yip serves as executive chairman to the board of directors of CDC Software. Mr. Yip was a founder of the Company and served as chief executive officer between 1999 and February 2005. Under his leadership, the Company was one of the first successful initial public offerings of an internet company from Greater China to be listed on NASDAQ, opening the door for other Chinese entrepreneurs to list their ventures in the U.S. capital markets. Mr. Yip is also a non-executive director of the Company's Hong Kong listed subsidiary China.com Inc., and has served as vice-chairman of the China.com Inc. board since 1999. Mr. Yip is chairman of China Pacific Capital, and has over two decades of entrepreneurial and direct investment experience in the U.S. and the Asia Pacific region in which he has co-founded or provided seed funding to a number of successful start-up entities, including Linkage Online, Gartner Group Asia, YipKon Business Systems and Online Software Asia. In addition, Mr. Yip's family-owned direct investment fund has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals, including CEF (a prior joint venture between Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and GE Capital), a Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Bay Networks Inc., SunMicrosystems Inc., America Online, Inc., Merrill Lynch-Fred Adler Technology Fund II and the New World Group. Mr. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG Consulting and Wharton Applied Research. In 2000, the Wharton Business School presented Mr. Yip with is Asian Alumni Entrepreneur Award. Mr. Yip received a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School and both a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an associate degree from Vincennes University in Indianna. | 