He Xiaopeng
He Xiaopeng | |
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 He Xiaopeng, co-founder and product president at UCWeb Inc. | |
| Born | He Xiaopeng / 何小鹏 3 November 1977 |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | South China University of Technology |
| Occupation(s) | co-founder, Product President , UCWeb |
He Xiaopeng (Chinese: 何小鹏; pinyin: Hē Xiǎopéng; born 3 November, 1977 ) is a Chinese entrepreneur. He’s known as the co-founder and president of product at UCWeb Inc.,.,[1] the Chinese mobile Internet software and service provider he co-founded in 2004. UCWeb was acquired by China’s ecommerce giant Alibaba Group in June 2014 in the largest M&A deal ever in Chinese Internet industry..[2][3]
Born in Hubei, he attended Guangzhou's South China University of Technology where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He worked at Asiainfo Technologies in various roles including technology manager, testing manager and project manager after graduation in his early career.
He co-founded UCWeb with Liang Jie in 2004, overseeing the company’s product strategy and R&D efforts. He worked alongside the company’s management team by utilizing his experience in tech and understanding of the needs of mobile users to pull off success for UCWeb’s flagship product UC Browser by attracting over 500 million users the world over and achieving market leader position in both China (over 65%) and India (over 32%).[4][5]
In 2011, He and his team developed proprietary U3 kernel, being the first proprietary technology developed in the mobile browser industry in China. In the same year, he was awarded Top 15 “Innovation Talents” by the City of Guangzhou, the capital city of China's southern Guangdong province.
- ^ company profile, BusinessWeek
- ^ Alibaba to buy out UCWeb in China's biggest internet merger, Reuters, June 11, 2014
- ^ Alibaba Fully Buys Out UCWeb in China's Biggest Internet Deal Ever, Forbes magazine, June 11, 2014
- ^ Mobile browser-maker UCWeb, another global tech firm under the radar, crosses 500m users, TheNextWeb
- ^ UC Browser goes past 500 million global users "According to Chinese research firm iResearch, UC Browser dominated China’s mobile browser market in 2013 with over 65% of the market share... StatCounter's data shows that UC Browser leads the overall mobile browser category in India with 32% market share."