At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top China based CEO’ operating in the Web Development space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Haining Wang
CEO of Happy Elements
Haining Wang (王海宁) is the CEO of Happy Elements Co. Ltd., a social game company that caters to the non-English Facebook market. Wang was previously the senior director at China Interactive Corp. He was also in charge of the marketing, sales, and consulting business processes in companies such as IBM, ORACLE, and SAP.
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About Happy Elements: Happy Elements is focused on the development of social, web, and mobile games as well as publishing services.
Yunming Wang
Founder and CEO of 55tuan.com
Yunming Wang is the founder and chief executive officer of 55tuan, a Chinese group buying site that provides users with daily deals and offers. He is also the founder and chief executive officer of 365jihe.com. Wang is an entrepreneurial mentor of students at Tunghai University. He was the former chairman and chief executive of Tunghai University Internet Association. In 1999, Wang founded 5173.com, a C2C trading website.
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About 55tuan.com, Quest Ventures: 55tuan is a Chinese web developer offering the largest e-commerce website and community platform in China.
Jerry Wang
CEO of Tuya
Jerry Wang is CEO at Tuya Smart.
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About Tuya: Tuya is an IOT solutions provider that helps manufacturers develop their app and bring their product to market and at competitive prices.
Robert H. Xiao
CEO of Perfect World
Dr. Robert H. Xiao is now vice chairman of Perfect World Investment & Holding Group and CEO of Perfect World Co., Ltd. Dr. Robert H. Xiao joined Perfect World in May 2008. He once served as the Senior VP of Perfect World, and later the COO, and CEO of the company. He led the privatization of Perfect World (PWRD) from NASDAQ in 2015, then championed the merger and reconstruction of two Perfect World sister companies to create a listed entity in Chinese A–Share market (ticker: 002624) in 2016. He was then appointed the CEO of Perfect World Co., Ltd. Dr. Robert H. Xiao received his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Tsinghua University in 1989, and then he received his Master’s and Ph.D. Degrees in Engineering at University of Southern California respectively in 1991 and 1995.
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About Perfect World: Perfect Word is a company of online game research and development, operation, marketing and service.
Zhonghui Zhan
CEO and Co-Founder of Ejoy Technology
Zhonghui Zhan is a co-founder and the chief executive officer of EJOY, a Chinese company engaged in the development of online games. Prior to that, he worked for the game department of Netease in October 1999. Later on, he was promoted as the chief operating officer of Netease. Zhan obtained a master’s degree in automatic control from the South China University of Technology.
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About Ejoy Technology: EJOY is a Chinese company focused on providing entertainment by developing internet games.
Song Wang
Founder, Chairman and CEO of ChinaCache
Song Wang is the founder, chairman, and CEO of ChinaCache, a global provider of content delivery network and cloud computing services. Having co-founded the company in 1998, Wang currently oversees the strategic direction of ChinaCache. Prior to ChinaCache, Wang served as the chief representative of Business 2000 Resources, Beijing, from 1996 to 1998; a senior counsel for Boston Technology Inc. from 1995 to 1996; and a computer-aided design engineer for the Northern China Computer Technologies Institute from 1987-1995. Wang studied French at China Foreign Affairs University and obtained his Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.
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About ChinaCache: ChinaCache is a provider of content delivery networks and cloud-based services.
Zhang Yan
Co-Founder & CEO of Shenzhen Domain Network Software
Zhang Yan is Co-Founder & CEO at Shenzhen Domain Network Software.
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About Shenzhen Domain Network Software: Shenzhen Domain Network Software is focused on online game development, and operation and web application development.
Yuhao Wang
Founder & CEO of RenRen Headhunting
Yuhao Wang (王雨豪) is the founder and CEO of Renrenlietou, a recruiting platform for headhunting, with integrated features of crowdsourcing and mobile platforms. Wang had previously founded companies such as Cards Bumper, Leike Biotechnology, and Leike Lighting Technology. His employment history includes his time at Nokia and Philips. He is the Co-founder of Quanminyuebang.
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About Quanminyuebang, RenRen Headhunting: Renren Headhunting offers crowdsourced recruiting services targeted on medium and high-tier TMT talent markets.
Benfeng Chen
Co-Founder, CEO of Redcore Times
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About Redcore Times: Redcore Times is the world’s leading provider of enterprise browser and mobile solutions.
Frank Lee
CEO & Founder of Shinezone
Frank Lee is the CEO and Founder at Shinezone Inc.
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About Shinezone: Shinezone specializes in the in-house development and publication of web and mobile games for global markets.