Beijing, China - October 15, 2012, Beijing, China - UTStarcom Holdings Corp., a provider of broadband equipment and solutions, announced that it has appointed Tianruo Pu as the company's chief financial officer, effective immediately.
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Mr. Pu has been the Chairman of the Company's Audit Committee since March 2012 and has served as an independent director since November 2011. Mr. Pu brings nearly two decades of experience in corporate finance, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions as well as technology sector experience.
From September 2008 to July 2012, Mr. Pu was the Chief Financial Officer of China Nuokang Bio-Pharmaceutical Inc., where he successfully led the company's IPO process and was responsible for its financial management and corporate strategy. Previously, Mr. Pu was the Chief Financial Officer of Global Data Solutions, a Chinese information technology services outsourcing company, which he joined in June 2006.
Earlier in his career Mr. Pu was a management consultant with Accenture, CSC Consulting Group, and Mitchell Madison Consulting Group and worked as an auditor at Bernstein Brown CPAs. Mr. Pu received an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 2000, a Master of Science degree in accounting from the University of Illinois in 1995, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from China Foreign Affairs College in 1992. He replaces Jin Jiang, who has resigned to pursue other opportunities.
Ms. Jiang has more than fifteen years of extensive experience in finance and accounting roles including senior positions at one of the big four accounting firms and other NASDAQ listed companies. Ms. Jiang joined UTStarcom in October 2009 as the Corporate Controller and was then promoted to the position of Vice President of Finance in March 2011.
Previously, Ms. Jiang served as the Corporate Controller at Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. and Red Envelope, Inc, both of which were acquired in 2007 and 2008, respectively. Prior to joining Red Envelope, Inc, Ms. Jiang held senior management positions in audit, business consulting and internal audit at Ernst & Young in San Francisco and Beijing for eight years.
Ms. Jiang has a Canadian Chartered Accountant designation and holds a post graduate education in chartered accountancy from McGill University and a bachelor of accounting from the University of British Columbia. ■