Beijing, China - June 4, 2015, Beijing, China - Lenovo announced that Liu Jun will become a special consultant to the CEO on mobile business and strategy for a certain period of time.
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Mr. Jiu joined the Group in 1993 and is currently Executive Vice President of the Company and President of the Mobile Business Group.
Prior to this role, he was Senior Vice President of the Company and President of Lenovo Business Group responsible for driving Lenovo's mainstream consumer/commercial desktop, notebook and tablet businesses and also the growth across the Mobile Internet & Digital Home portfolio including smartphone and smart TV.
Before that, Mr. Liu held a broad range of leadership positions in Lenovo including president of the Products Group, Consumer Business Group, Global Supply Chain and Lenovo China.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Automation and an EMBA, both from Tsinghua University and completed executive programs at Harvard University and Stanford University.
Chen Xudong will become the new leader of MBG and also Chairman of Motorola Mobility.
Mr. Chen is currently Senior Vice President, Lenovo Group President, Lenovo China and Asia Pacific Emerging Markets.
He is senior vice president of Lenovo Group and president for Lenovo China Region and the Asia Pacific Emerging Markets region.
Mr. Chen, who oversees Lenovo's business and operations in this geography, has rich experience in sales and marketing, commercial operation, quality management and channel management in the industry and holds an international perspective.
Prior to this, he was President of the Lenovo China Region. Mr. Chen joined Lenovo in 1993, and served as various leading roles including Regional Sales, Commerce, Quality, and Channel Management.
He was appointed as vice president of Lenovo Group in April 2005, and took charge of Lenovo's channel sales and consumer business for Asia Pacific in 2006.
From December 2008 to December 2009, he was responsible for the strategy and operations of Lenovo's Asia Pacific and Russia regions, and then moved to Lenovo's Emerging Market Group.
Mr. Chen has served as the general manager of Lenovo China region since December 2009, and was appointed to senior vice president of Lenovo Group in October 2011.
Mr. Chen graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree in probability statistics in 1989 and a master's degree in the same discipline in 1992. ■