hiSoft's Board of Directors is composed of a seasoned team of professionals with years of executive experience at large enterprise technology firms. This allows the board to help direct hiSoft's management team to provide solutions which focus on delivering the greatest business value and allow hiSoft to maintain its reputation as the most reliable ITO & BPO partner.
Executive Chairman
Cheng-Yaw Sun
Cheng-Yaw Sun was appointed the Chairman of the Board for hiSoft Technology International in March 2008 and assumed the Executive Chairman position in August 2009. Cheng-Yaw was Managing Director of China Hewlett-Packard and Corporate Vice President of Hewlett-Packard from 2002 to 2007. Prior to the merger of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, from 2000 to 2001, Mr.Sun served as Managing Director of Hewlett-Packard China and from 1991 to 1999, Mr.Sun held the position of General Manager for the Computer Systems Group for Hewlett-Packard China. Mr.Sun joined Hewlett-Packard Taiwan in 1982 as a System Engineer where he held various sales management positions from 1983 to 1990.
Mr. Sun has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Chung Yuan Christian University of Taiwan.
Jenny Lee
Jenny Lee is a Managing Partner at Granite Global Ventures (GGV) and is responsible for GGV's China investments and operations. From 2002 to 2005, she served as a Vice President of JAFCO Asia. From 2001 to 2002, Lee worked as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley and prior to that, she was Assistant Principal Engineer with Singapore Technologies Aerospace Group.
Ms. Lee received her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and master of science in engineering degree from Cornell University. She also has a master of business administration from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Loh Tiak Koon
Loh is the CEO of hiSoft Technology International and brings with him over 20 years of global market experience from leading IT enterprise corporations. Prior to joining hiSoft, Loh was Hewlett-Packard's Corporate Vice President, responsible for the services business unit in China and Hong Kong.
As a highly competent leader, Mr. Loh has demonstrated his ability to leverage a company's core assets and utilize them for significant growth, driving improved shareholder value. While CEO of Vanda Systems & Communications Holdings Limited, Loh was instrumental in driving the merger with Vanda Systems, Hutchison Global Communications and PowerCom to create a global powerhouse. Prior to Vanda, Mr. Loh was the Managing Director for the Internet Capital Group's Asia operations and the CEO of Cap Gemini Asia-Pacific.
Loh started his career at IBM, and subsequently Lotus Professional Services, serving various senior management and sales positions in the Asia Pacific region.
Mr. Loh has a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore.
Venkatachalam (Venky) Krishnakumar
Venky Krishnakumar has served as our independent dirctor since May 2010. He is currently serving on the board of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. and is the current chairman of the board of Oracle Financial Software Services Singapore Pte. Ltd. Mr. Krishnakumar has also previously served on the boards of various software services companies including Singapore Computer Systems Limited, Polaris Software Labs Ltd., and E-Serve International Ltd. Previously, Mr. Krishnakumar served for 31 years with Citibank in India, New York, and Singapore in various capacities (including chief financial officer functions and oversign of Citibank's Operations and Technology activities in the Asia Pacific region). His last position with Citibank was as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of the Global Consumer Bank for Asia Pacific region. Since his retirement from Citibank in 2005, Mr. Krishnakumar has held senior advisory roles with McKinsey & Co., Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Banking and DBS Bank Limited. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda India in 1972 and completed his master of business administration from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta India in 1974.
Terry McCarthy
Terry McCarthy is an independent director and the audit committee chairman of Solarfun Power Holdings - a NASDAQ company, an independent director of Agria Corporation - a NYSE company, as well as a managing LLC member and investor of TriUnited Investors, LLC, Kansas.
He received a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University, an MBA from the University of Southern California, and a master's degree in taxation from Golden Gate University.
