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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 Cloud Computing 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.
Haobo Ma
CEO & Founder of ælf
Founder of ælf, founder/ CEO of Hoopox, Blockchain expert, early adopter of digital assets, Ex-CTO of GemPay. He is also a member of Blockchain Experts’ Commission of Chinese Institute of Electronics and China Computer Federation.
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About ælf: ælf is a decentralized Cloud Computing Blockchain Network, featuring parallel processing and nodes clustering to enable scaling…
Xu Shiwei
CEO of Qiniu
Shiwei Xu is the chief executive officer of Qiniu, a Chinese company providing internet data storage services. He is also the founder of ECUG Community. With more than ten years of experience in the internet industry, Xu has worked at Kingsoft and Shengda in the aspect of technological research and was the chief software architect of WPS2005. He is the author of Go Programming Language.
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About Qiniu: Your unified data lake and analysis platform for 5G
Andy Yin
Co-Founder and CEO of Cloudwise
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About Cloudwise: Cloudwise is an innovative collaboration designed to give third sector organizations access to the benefits of cloud computing.
Xinhua Ji
CEO of UCloud Information Technology
Xinhua Ji (季昕华) is the founder and CEO of UCloud Information Technology, a Chinese company that provides cloud-based services. Ji was previously employed at Tencent from 2004 to 2009, after which he served the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center as a technical expert. He was also employed as a technical support expert in security work and technical coordination at the Beijing Olympic Games.
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About UCloud Information Technology: UCloud Information Technology provides cloud storage and data analytics services to online gaming and e-commerce operators.
Lei Chen
CEO of Xunlei
Lei Chen has been Xunlei Limited (Nasdaq: XNET) chief executive officer since July 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Chen served as Xunlei’s co-chief executive officer and chief technology officer. In 2015, Mr. Chen created Onething Technologies, Xunlei’s cloud computing division. Prior to joining Xunlei in 2014, Mr. Chen was the President of Tencent Cloud, where he spearheaded Tencent’s cloud computing, open platform and social advertisement efforts. Mr. Chen also worked at Google and Microsoft in the US focusing on cloud computing and big data research and development, before returning to China to join Tencent. Mr. Chen holds a bachelor agree of science in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in China, and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in the US. Mr. Chen was awarded China’s Most Influential People for Cloud Computing in 2014, Annual Luminaries in Internet Industry in 2015 and Most Influential People for CDN in 2016. In 2017, he won the prize of Annual Leader of Global Blockchain. In April 2018, he was invited to speak at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference and shared opinions on shared computing and blockchain innovation.
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About OneThing Technologies, Xunlei: Xunlei Limited is a global innovator in shared computing and blockchain technology.
Shenglong Zou
Founder and CEO of Xunlei
Shenglong Zou is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xunlei Network, a company developing downloads manager software. Zou along with Cheng, a fellow alumnus from Duke University and a former senior manager of Chinese search engine Baidu.com founded Xunlei in October 2002. Prior to Xunlei, Zou worked as the manager of core products in Nuasis Corporation. Later, he started three companies of his own: IPNet, Chinaflow and MuseTech in Silicon Valley. Zou received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Duke University.
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About Xunlei: Xunlei Limited is a global innovator in shared computing and blockchain technology.
Yunpeng Li
CEO of Iluvatar CoreX
Yunpeng Li is the CEO of Iluvatar CoreX.
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About Iluvatar CoreX: Iluvatar CoreX is a developer of high-performance computing solutions including System-on-a-Chip (SoC) chipset and its software platform.
Yan Cui
CEO & Co-Founder of 4DAGE
Head of the China-Germany Artificial Intelligence Institute, former senior engineer at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), founder and CEO of 4DAGE Technology Co., Assistant Dean of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Inst, Wuyi University. Principal investigator of seven important projects on 3D digitization, including the CAPTURE, DENSITY, OrcaM projects funded by the German’s federal ministry of education and research, the projects of 3D reconstruction of the Hall of Supreme Harmony and Broken Rainbow Bridge of Palace Museum, Mogao Grottoes Cave 001, Nationalmuseum (Stockholm). Collaborator of Intelligent Mechanical Non Destructive Testing Project of BMW and Walking Military Robot Project of French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis. judge of top-tier academic computer vision conferences like CVPR, T-PAM. 11 published research papers in IEEE T-PAMI, SIGGRAPH Asia, ACCV, CVPR. 4 advanced patented inventions on 3D digitizing technology. Cover paper award of IEEE T-PAMI May 2012, numerous prizes for various Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competitions sponsored by Chinese authorities. In 2014, I returned to China after completing a doctorate in University of Kaiserslautern, then established 4DAGE Technology Co., Ltd, which within only 4 years has pioneered in the domestic nascent 3D digitization industry. In 2017, the startup cooperated with German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in the establishment of the China-Germany Artificial Intelligence Institute under the witness of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In May 2018, 4DAGE launched the world’s first consumer 3D Camera 4DKanKan, aiming to make 3D digitization of real scenes possible and simple for individual users. It soon had a great reception from the users. With the mission of “Digital Everything”, 4DAGE with top-level AI brains strives to digitally upgrade museums, catering, real estate and new retail industries. It boasted cutting-edge inventions for high-resolution 3D object reconstruction based on raster devices. 4DAGE is proud with its customer focused 3D camera, 4DKanKan 3D camera.
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About 4DAGE: 4DAGE specializes in applied Artificial Intelligence for machine/computer vision and 3D reconstruction solutions.
Xu Guangbin
Founder and CEO of Chinac.com
Xu Guangbin is the founder, chairman and CEO of Huayun Data. Xu Guangbin is an advisor to the China Internet Society, an expert member of the China Cloud Computing Expert Committee, and a special advisor to the National Computer Network Emergency Technology Processing Coordination Center. He has also been awarded the 2007 China Internet Innovation Person and CCTV Business People. Xu Guangbin founded China’s largest software community in 1998. Yingzheng.com was named as one of China’s top ten personal homepages, China’s innovation webmaster, and was also named China’s best download site in 2001. Fan Magazine is rated as the coolest community. In 2003, Xu Guangbin founded Lanmang Technology, specializing in telecom value-added services, IDC business and developing relevant supervision software and platform for Internet authorities. The company was acquired by Century Internet in 2007. After that, Xu Guangbin joined Century Internet, and Xu Guangbin at the end of the year Founded the Century Internet Cloud Computing Division. Xu Guangbin has more than 10 years of experience in the management and management of large and medium-sized IT enterprises. He is the executive of foreign-funded enterprises. He is an expert in China’s cloud computing industry. In 2007, he founded China’s first cloud computing team, successfully planned products and presided over operations, and senior marketing. Experience, good at corporate development and marketing strategy planning, formulation and strong practical experience.
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About Chinac.com: Chinac.com is a Chinese domestic cloud computing infrastructure operator that provides IT solutions and outsourcing services.
Grace Huang
Founder & CEO of iPinYou
Grace Huang, founder and CEO of IPINYOU, takes full charge of the strategic planning and operational management of IPINYOU. She is the first brand marketing expert who introduced behavioral targeting, RTB and DSP concept to Chinese market. She worked in the Marketing Department of Procter & Gamble Group and was in charge of brand marketing and hence has accumulated abundant branding and marketing experience. Thereafter, she worked in the world’s top consultant firm McKinsey and offered marketing strategy consultation for many world-class enterprises. She graduated from Peking University majoring in both law and English, then attended UCLA and got a MBA degree.
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About iPinYou: iPinYou is a demand side platform with real-time bidding, cloud computing, and audience profiling technology solutions.
Samuel JIANG
CEO and Co-Founder of CloudCare
Samuel JIANG, tech-savvy of the Post-80s, is the CEO and co-founder of Shanghai Zhuyun Information Technology Co.,Ltd. Samuel is one of the 1st batch of mentees from Lakeside(Hupan) University and widely recognized as“Super Brain of Lakeside University”.He is frequently invited to speak at Conferences,Seminars,business and marketing events, sharing his passion and viewpoint of internet methodology,internet business model as well as Digital Transformation and so on. Back to 2010, Samuel first came to contact with Alibaba Cloud,he proposed many valuable opinions and suggestions for the improvements. Dr.Wang Jian, then- CTO of Alibaba Cloud Computing, called Samuel”Lao Jiang”and encouraged him to be the test pilot as Alicloud to usher in the development of Chinese Cloud Computing industry. On the occasion in 2013, Zhuyun was founded and has been continuously focusing on a large array of Alicloud products and technologies to offer the”Simple but not simplistic”cloud services to enterprises-level customers,really helping the cloud computing to be put into place. On 28 March 2017, Zhuyun officially launched one-stop Butler Service –“CloudCare”,which has been assembled the service capabilities and expertise over the past 4 years. CloudCare can achieve the high-efficient coordination of customer demand, diagnose and personnel matching by using the combination of 7 major cloud toolkits(Software as a Service) and cloud kitchen( Service as a Software),finalize the smart matching with toolkits and personnel as well as expertise,and output the integrated services through intelligent platform, which enables Zhuyun’s service to be “A Service Cloud”. Prior to joining Zhuyun, Samuel was the CEO of Gokuai Technology Inc. ,where he transformed the way Gokuai operates, increasing efficiency and management for enterprise users. (Gokuai is China’s leading cloud storage solutions provider, with proprietary synchronization functions and document management capabilities. Gokuai’s products cover Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android platforms, offering seamless access anytime, anywhere.) Samuel is the driving force of Zhuyun’s strategic direction and marketing focus. Under his leadership,Zhuyun has grown into a leading Cloud Service company in China.
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About CloudCare: A Shanghai-based cloud computing company.
Sheng Liu
Founder & CEO of Innolight
Sheng Liu co-founded InnoLight Technology in 2008. Prior to that, he worked for many years in a number of companies in the optical transceiver industry including Agere Systems (formerly Lucent), Pine Photonics Communications and Opnext. Sheng Liu has been active in the Chinese American high tech communities. He is currently president of Suzhou Industrial Park Optical Communication Industry Alliance, and a member of the Tsinghua Entrepreneur & Executive Club (TEEC). He was also awarded National Thousand Talents Program. Sheng Liu received his Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. from Chinese Science Academy, and B.S. from Tsinghua University, Beijing.
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About Innolight, Suzhou Industrial Park Optical Communication Industry Alliance: InnoLight Technology is a leading high speed optical transceiver supplier in China, who researches, designs, builds and markets the best.
Xin Xu
CEO & Co-Founder of XSKY Data Technology
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About XSKY Data Technology: China-based technical company focusing on software-defined-infrastructure products and services.
Yun Wu
Chief Executive Officer of Xforceplus
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About Xforceplus: Xforceplus develops enterprise collaborative solutions for software as a service.
Xi Lun Chen
Founder and CEO of EasyStack
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About EasyStack: EasyStack provides open cloud solutions and services for China and Asia market.
Hua Lei
Founder & CEO of Bocloud
Mr.Hua Lei,BoCloud founder and CEO, Master of ISCAS, MBA of Tsinghua University, Ph.D in software engineering of ISCAS ( studying) Mr.Hua Lei was in the Microsoft, long serving, design and completion of office 365 platform of the first edition of the Bi servers function, participated in the development of Microsoft mail server Exchange, collaborative server Lync and other server core products.
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About Bocloud: BoCloud provides professional cloud computing services for enterprise customers, focusing on PaaS technology.
Yunsong Huang
CEO & Co-Founder of QingCloud
Yunsong Huang is a CEO & Co-Founder at QingCloud.
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About QingCloud: QingCloud is a cloud computing platform that provides IaaS-based flexible cloud services.
Richard Huang
CEO of QingCloud
Richard Huang is a CEO & Co-Founder at QingCloud.
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About QingCloud: QingCloud is a cloud computing platform that provides IaaS-based flexible cloud services.
Zhang Hailong
CEO of CODING
Former Oracle senior software engineer. has co-founded the open source Chinese community（oschina.net）in 2010.
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About CODING: CODING is a company that provides free online guides for beginners who want to learn how to program.
Pu Wang
Founder & CEO of Dataman
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About Dataman: Dataman is devoted to build reliable and operable cloud system with high quality.
Chengtao Li
Founder & CEO of Galixir
Chengtao Li is the Founder and CEO of Galixir.
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About Galixir: Galixir is an artificial intelligence technology to promote the research and development of new drugs.
Yingnan Zhang
Chief Executive Officer of ForceClouds
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About ForceClouds: ForceClouds develops enterprise software intended to provide simple, safe, efficient, and compliant information automation.
Bing Zhang
Founder and CEO of eCloudTech
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About eCloudTech: eCloudTech is a cloud computing solution provider, dedicated to data center
Leo Wang
Co-Founder & CEO of EyeSmart Technology
Leo Wang is Co-Founder & CEO at EyeSmart Technology.
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About EyeSmart Technology: EyeSmart Technology develops iris-recognition technology solutions.
Jiangchuan Liu
Founder, Chairman and CEO of Jiangxing Intelligence
Jiangchuan Liu is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Jiangxing Intelligence.
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About Jiangxing Intelligence: Jiangxing Intelligence is an edge computing service provider.
Yaxuan Qi
CEO of Yunshan Networks
Qi Yaxuan comes from Tsinghua University, member of TEEC(Tsinghua Entrepreneur and Executive Club), has led the first SDN scientific experiments group in China. As CEO and Founder of Yunshan Networks, Yaxuan is responsible in setting company strategy and product blueprint. Moreover he is trying to influent SDN trends in China and delivering concept of “SDN in China” to the world with his passion and seasoned network comprehension.
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About Yunshan Networks: Yunshan is a leading Software-Defined Networking and IBN service provider, focuses on software-defined data center networking innovation.
Qiyan Chen
CEO of DaoCloud
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About DaoCloud: DaoCloud is a digital innovation leader in enterprise cloud computing.
Xiuping Shen
Founder and CEO of Ulucu
Xiuping Shen (沈修平) is the founder and CEO of Shanghai Ulucu Electronic Technology Co.,Ltd., a cloud-based video and network monitoring operator which provides chain and logic enterprises. Shen obtained his bachelor’s degree from the Renmin University of China.
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About Ulucu: Ulucu Electronic Technology is a cloud-based video monitoring and network monitoring operatorproviding services to various industries.
Shao Changyu
CEO of Qingyuan Technology
Microsoft senior staff, has a deep research in the field of container technology And accumulation, proficient in all major languages and underlying architecture. Familiar with the functional design and technical implementation of PaaS products, Greatly improve the convenience of enterprise customers on the cloud.
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About Qingyuan Technology: Qingyuan Technology is a Cloud computing service provider.
Xiangfei Chai
Founder & CEO of Huiyi Huiying
Obtained Postdoctoral fellow in Stanford University, doctor degree in medical physics major in Amsterdam University in Holland. He had studied and worked in the world top medical imaging organizations, such as cancer center of Stanford University, Holland cancer research center and radiology department in Leuven University. He has over 10 years experience on interdisciplinary scientific research and project in the field of Artificial Intelligence, image processing, and data analysis, with the good knowledge of the core technology of image segmentation, identification, analysis and deep learning algorithm. He has been honored “Top 30 AI Start-up entrepreneur” and “Best Youth Model”. Xiangfei Chai also was the the first term trainee of Qingteng University held by Tencent.
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About Huiyi Huiying: Huiyi Huiying is an international cloud computing & AI tech that has created a digital medical imaging and tumor radiotherapy platform.
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.
Xiuwen Zhao
Founder and CEO of ZingFront
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About ZingFront: ZingFront Software is an AI technology company that has built AD Creative Cloud and 3D-Creative Cloud.
Armeen Mazda
CEO of Appeon Corporation
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About Appeon Corporation: Appeon is focused on simplifying and speeding up enterprise application development processes.
JJ Zeng
Co-Founder and CEO of IDsManager
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About IDsManager: IDsManager is a cloud identity service platform.
Francois Bordes
CEO of WeSmart
Green entrepreneur
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About WeSmart: WeSmart is a revolutionary IoT and smart energy social platform.
George Zhang
CEO of Whispering Syscloud
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About Whispering Syscloud: Syscloud is a new high-tech enterprise whose core business is providing cloud exchange network service.
