Management

Mr. William Wei Huang is our founder, chairman of our board of directors and, since 2002, has served as our chief executive officer. From 2004 to 2020, Mr. Huang also served as a director of Haitong-Fortis Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd., a domestic private equity fund management company in China. Prior to founding our company, he served as a senior vice president of Shanghai Meining Computer Software Co., Ltd., which operates StockStar.com, a website primarily providing finance and securities related information and services in China.

Mr. Daniel Newman has served as the chief financial officer of GDS since September 2011. Prior to joining us in this capacity, Mr. Newman acted as an advisor to GDS from 2009 to 2011. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Newman served as a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch with responsibility for investment banking clients in the telecom, media, and technology sectors in Asia. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Newman acted as an advisor in the chairman’s office of Reliance Communications in Mumbai, India. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Newman served as a managing director at Deutsche Bank with responsibility for investment banking clients in the telecom and media sectors in Asia. Mr. Newman previously worked as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers (and its successors) from 1997 to 2001 and at S.G. Warburg (and its successors) from 1983 to 1997 in London and Hong Kong. Mr. Newman received his bachelor’s degree in history from Bristol University in the UK in 1983.

Ms. Yan Liang joined our company in 2010 and has served as our senior vice president of data center operation and delivery since March 2014 and our executive vice president of data center design, operation and delivery since April 2024. Ms. Liang is currently also responsible for data center design and prefab products, data center operation efficiency enhancement and asset management. Ms. Liang serves on the China Data Center Committee as vice chairman with responsibility for contributing to white papers for data center operation system architecture, data center infrastructure management system, and best energy efficiency methodology. Prior to joining us in 2010, Ms. Liang served as a director of operations and business development with COSCO’s global data center business where she had responsibility for information system centralization, construction of large data centers, establishment and promotion of ITIL operation management systems and global disaster recovery from 1997 to 2010. Ms. Liang received a bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Tie Dao University and an MBA from Fudan University.

Mr. Kejing Zhang joined our company in 2015 as our senior vice president of sales, and has served as our executive vice president of sales and service since April 2024. Mr. Zhang is responsible for sales operations, management and service. Prior to joining us, Mr. Zhang was a director of wholesale business of China Unicom (Europe) Operations Limited from 2010 to 2014, with responsibility for sales and business development with telco carriers in European, Middle East and African regions. Mr. Zhang majored in electronic engineering and received a Ph.D. from Queen Mary and Westfield College to the University of London.