Liang Jianzhang

Liang Jianzhang (梁建章), was appointed as the Co-Chairman of the Board in March 2018 and non-executive Director in June 2018. Mr. Liang has served as one of the Directors since 2016. Mr. Liang is one of the co-founders and the executive chairman of Trip.com Group, a company whose shares are listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol: TCOM). He has served as the chairman of the board of directors of Trip.com Group since August 2003. Mr. Liang served as the chief executive officer of Trip.com Group from 2000 to 2006, and from March 2013 to November 2016.

Save as disclosed above, Mr. Liang has served as a director of BTG Hotels Group (首旅酒店), a company whose shares are listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange (stock code: 600258) since January 2017, and a director of MakeMyTrip Ltd., a company whose shares are listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol: MMYT) since January 2016.

Mr. Liang formerly served on the boards of Sina Corp. (新浪公司), a company whose shares are listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol: SINA), Tuniu Corp (途牛旅遊網), a company whose shares are listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol: TOUR), eHi Car Services Ltd. (上海一嗨租車服務有限公司), a company whose shares were formerly listed on New York Stock Exchange (stock symbol: EHIC) and privatized in April 2019, 51job, Inc (前程無憂股份有限公司), a company whose shares are listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol: JOBS), jiayuan.com International Ltd. (世紀佳緣國際有限公司), a company whose shares were formerly listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol: DATE) and privatized in May 2016, and Homeinns Hotel Group (如家酒店集團), a company whose shares were formerly listed on NASDAQ (stock symbol: HMIN) and privatized in April 2016.

Mr. Liang has won many accolades for his contributions to the Chinese travel industry, including 2019 Forbes China Multinational Business Leader, Best CEO in the Internet category in the 2016 All-Asia Executive Team Rankings by Institutional Investor and 2015 China’s Business Leader of the Year by Forbes.

Mr. Liang holds a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, a master's degree and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.