BEIJING, Sept. 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (the
"Company" or "Baidu") (NASDAQ: BIDU), the leading Chinese language
internet search provider, today announced the appointment of
Herman Yu as chief financial
officer, effective immediately.
"We are delighted to have Herman
Yu join our executive team at Baidu," said Robin Li, Baidu's chairman and chief executive
officer. "Herman brings invaluable financial management, capital
market and leadership experience, having served as CFO of US-listed
internet companies for 10 years, as well as having held management
roles at high tech companies in both the US and China. I look forward to working with Herman
in his new capacity, as Baidu enters the next stage of growth in
the AI era."
"I am deeply honored to join Baidu, a world-class technology
company," said Mr. Yu. "I look forward to working with Baidu's
talented management team to realize the tremendous potential in the
AI era."
Herman Yu joins Baidu from Weibo
Corp. (NASDAQ: WB), where he has served as chief financial officer
since 2015. Prior to Weibo, Mr. Yu worked at SINA Corp. from 2004
to 2015, most recently as chief financial officer from 2007 to
2015. Mr. Yu began his career at Arthur Andersen and has held
various finance and accounting management positions at Adobe
Systems Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and VeriFone Systems,
Inc. He is a California Certified Public Accountant and holds a
B.A. in Economics from the University of
California and an M.A. in Accountancy from the University of Southern California. Mr. Yu serves on
the boards of 58.com Inc., ZTO Express Inc., and Tian Ge
Interactive Holdings Limited.
Jennifer Li will step down as
chief financial officer of Baidu and serve the Company as a senior
advisor to senior management. Jennifer is chief executive
officer of Baidu Capital, a private equity firm focused on
AI-enabled opportunities.
About Baidu
Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search
provider. Baidu aims to make a complex world simpler through
technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
under the symbol "BIDU". Currently, ten ADSs represent one Class A
ordinary share.
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in the Chinese Internet search market; competition for online
marketing customers; changes in the Company's revenues and certain
cost or expense items as a percentage of its revenues; the outcome
of ongoing, or any future, litigation or arbitration, including
those relating to intellectual property rights; the expected growth
of the Chinese language Internet search market and the number of
Internet and broadband users in China; Chinese governmental policies relating
to the Internet and Internet search providers and general economic
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For investor inquiries, please contact:
Sharon Ng
Baidu, Inc.
Tel: +86-10-5992-4958
Email: ir@baidu.com
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