Beijing, China - October 9, 2009, Beijing, China - ChinaEdu Corporation, an educational services provider, announced that it has re-elected Samuel Yen and Fan Min as independent directors and elected Amol Shah to the board.
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Samuel Yen has served as a Director of the Company since October 2007. Mr. Yen is the Vice President of Finance at Alibaba Group, a leading China based e-commerce company operating online marketplaces and services for businesses and consumers. From 2004 to 2005, Mr. Yen served as Financial Controller and Company Secretary of Dynasty Fine Wines Group Limited and prior to that Mr. Yen served in various positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen & Co., most recently as a Senior Manager.
Mr. Yen received a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Toronto and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Certified Management Accountants and the CFA Institute.
Min Fan has served as a Director of the Company since October 2007. Mr. Fan is one of the co-founders and the current Chief Executive Officer of Ctrip.com International Ltd., a leading travel services firm in China. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Fan served as Ctrip's Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.
Prior to founding Ctrip in 1999, Mr. Fan was the Chief Executive Officer of Shanghai Travel Service Company, a leading domestic travel agency in China, and from 1990 to 1997 he served in a number of senior management positions at Shanghai New Asia Hotel Management Company and New Asia Group. Mr. Fan holds both a master's and bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and has studied at the Lausanne Hotel Management School of Switzerland.
Amol Shah has served as a Director of the Company since April 2009. Mr. Shah is the Senior Vice President of Global Strategy for the McGraw-Hill Companies. He oversees strategy development for the corporation and its business units. Mr. Shah also serves as Vice President of McGraw-Hill Ventures, which makes equity investments in innovative, high growth companies that are complementary to McGraw-Hill's traditional business lines.
Prior to joining The McGraw-Hill Companies, he served as a Managing Director at Novantas LLC, a strategy consulting firm, where he served as a leading advisor on growth strategies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shah worked as a consultant specializing in financial services strategy for First Manhattan Consulting Group. ■