Education
Chao holds a Master of Professional Accounting degree from University of Texas at Austin, an Master of Arts in Journalism from University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
曹国伟
Chief Executive Officer and President Sina Corporation
Chao holds a Master of Professional Accounting degree from University of Texas at Austin, an Master of Arts in Journalism from University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
He has been with Sina since 1999, where he came in as vice president of finance. Chao joined Sina in 1999 when the company was facing difficulties in its attempts to get a listing on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation. He overcame this challenge by establishing Sina as a VIE (Variable Interest Entity) company, which cleared the way for a successful listing in the United States. Since then, he has served as Sina’s Chief Financial Officer (Chief Financial Officer), Chief Operating Officer (chief operating officer) and President in September 2005, Chief Executive Officer (Chief Executive Officer) in 2006, and finally Chairman of the Board in this August. He is the first Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in company’s history.
Chao has also made use of the Company’s platform to support public welfare undertakings in China.
Currently, Sina is one of the largest venues for making donations and emergency fundraising and is one of the first internet companies to set up a charity and public welfare platform. Now, Sina has established Yang Fan Public Welfare Fund, which will enable the company to participate more effectively in charity and public welfare causes.
Prior to joining Sina, Chao served as an audit manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Limited Liability Partnership, an accounting firm. Prior to that, Chao was a news correspondent at Shanghai Media Group.
Chao is currently the Chairman of Weibo Corporation, a leading media company, Company-Chairman of East-House, a real estate services company, and a director of NetDragon Websoft Incorporated., a company providing technology for online gaming and a director of Leju Holdings Limited., an online-to-offline (O2O) real estate services provider in China.