Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Tiezheng Li is one of our four co-founders and has been serving as our chief executive officer since March 2023, vice chairman of the board since September 2018, and director since March 2015. Mr. Li also served as our president from May 2020 to March 2024, our chief strategy officer from July 2017 to April 2020, our chief operating officer from April 2015 to July 2017 and our chief risk officer from January 2011 to April 2015. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Li served as a risk manager at China Minsheng Banking Corporation Limited from 2006 to 2011. Mr. Li received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China and FMBA degree from China Europe International Business School in China.
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Yuxiang Wang has been serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Company since March 2023 and Chief Technology Officer of the Company since October 2019. Previously, Mr. Wang served as Chief Product Officer of the Company from June 2015 to March 2023. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Wang served as the vice president of product at Opera Software ASA, a Norwegian software company, from 2013 to 2015. Before that he worked at Baidu.com as a product head of Baidu mobile browser from 2012 to 2013 and he was the product director at TeleNav, a company providing location-based services including navigation, from 2009 to 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Wang served as a senior product manager at MiTAC Research (Shanghai) Ltd., an electronics company, from 2002 to 2009. Mr. Wang received his bachelor’s degree in communication engineering from Jiangsu University, his master’s degree in software engineering from Fudan University and his EMBA degree from the China Europe International Business School.
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Jiayuan Xu has been serving as our chief financial officer since December 2020. Prior to serving as our chief financial officer, Mr. Xu served various positions at our company from June 2015 to November 2020, including our senior vice president for finance, head of financial institutions department and financial controller. Prior to joining us, Mr. Xu served as the head of financial management department of Nanyang Commercial Bank (China) Co., Ltd. from 2008 to 2015. Mr. Xu was an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP from 2003 to 2008. Mr. Xu received his bachelor’s degree in international trade and finance from Shanghai Jiaotong University in and FMBA degree from China Europe International Business School. Mr. Xu is also a member of Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
President and Chief Compliance Officer
Ms. Pingping Chen has been serving as President and Chief Compliance Officer of the Company since March 2024, while retaining her current responsibilities across legal, compliance, human resources and internal controls, which she has held since 2019. Previously, Ms. Chen served as Chief Executive Officer of Pai Pai Xin, from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, she held the position of Vice President of the Company, overseeing the legal, compliance, government relations, and innovation departments from 2013 to 2016. Ms. Chen received her master’s degree in law from Fudan University and her EMBA from the China Europe International Business School.