Yang Yuan-qing
Chairman of the Board, Lenovo Group Limited

Yang Yuan-qing is Chairman of the Board of Lenovo Group Limited. Prior to assuming his current position, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lenovo. Yang joined Lenovo in 1989 and became CEO in 2001. Under his leadership, Lenovo has been China's best-selling PC brand since 1997. In 1999, Lenovo ranked first in PC sales in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) and has maintained this position ever since.

Under Yang’s leadership, Lenovo was listed as a Fortune 500 company in Fortune and topped the rankings of the Financial Times’ 2007 Top 10 Chinese Global Brands Survey. Yang expanded Lenovo’s distribution network, and established highly efficient customer service networks. Likewise, Yang helped pioneer the ‘Home PC’ concept, which would successfully establish new business operational models for small and medium enterprises.

Yang has been pivotal in Lenovo's conversion to a transnational enterprise, guiding the company to become the International Olympic Committee's worldwide partner in March 2004. In December 2004, when Lenovo acquired IBM’s PC Division, Yang emerged onto the world stage as the first Chinese executive to lead the takeover of an iconic Western business. Subsequently, integrating new businesses and different cultures has become one of Lenovo’s core competencies.

Born in 1964, Yang is a graduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University. He also holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China. Yang is also a member of the National Youth Association Committee, Director of China's Entrepreneurs’ Association, a guest professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange's International Advisory Committee. Among his many professional accolades, Yang was named by Business Week as one of the ‘Stars of Asia’; selected by the Chinese media as one of China's ‘Ten Star Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Ten Most Valuable Managers’; named ‘Man of the Year’ in 2004 by CCTV; and was selected by Fortune Asia ‘Top 25 Most Influential Business Leaders in Asia’. In 2008, he was named “Chinese Business Leader of the Year in 2007” by Fortune Chinese edition.