Board of Directors
Hao Zhang
Chairman of the Board
Prior to being elected as the Chairman of board in March, 2020, Hao (Howard) Zhang has been a member of the Board since November 2016. Mr. Zhang is a private investor based in China. Mr. Zhang has served as a director of Wealth Power Global Trading Limited since June 2015. Mr. Zhang was originally appointed to our Board and has been nominated to stand for reelection as a director on our Board under the terms of a stockholders' agreement entered into between the Company and CFL, our majority stockholder.
Katherine Lauderdale
Independent Director
Katherine Lauderdale has almost 40 years of executive experience as chief legal officer of media companies offering television, radio, and digital media services. She has served as the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Public Broadcasting Service (“PBS”) since 2002. Prior to that, she was the General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Window To The World, Inc. in Chicago, owner of public television station WTTW and commercial, classical radio station WFMT. She has significant experience with respect to governance issues, as well as intellectual property, labor and employment, regulatory, compliance, and transactional legal matters.
Since 2021, Ms. Lauderdale as served on the Board of Directors of The Global Impact Investing Network (“The GIIN”), a non-profit corporation dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing around the world.
She is a graduate of New York University Law School and received her Bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University.
Mr. Ge Yi
Independent Director
Mr. Yi has over 20 years of experience and expertise in the technology industry, including product marketing, payment, sales and account management, fundraising, global partnership development and maintenance. He started his career at FedEx Internet Solutions Group in Asia Pacific Headquarter in Singapore in 2000, then joined Intel Assembly and Testing Group as Joint Engineering Team (JET) chair and lead engineer for 4 years, before he led the product marketing team at a Sunnyvale based startup company, Telegent System, between 2007 and 2011. From 2012 to 2020, he was responsible for the international business growth at WeChat Marketing group as the head of WeChat Pay Americas and as a senior account executive of its cloud computing and technology group recently.
Eloisa Sultan
Independent Director
Ms. Sultan has served as professional medical and clinical liaison for over seven years. Since 2017, she has served at Invitrx Therapeutics as a medical liaison, sales and marketing leader, and clinical educator. In her role, she bridged physicians, developed internal relationships, and provided training necessary for patient studies and clinical research, among other topics. Prior to this, Ms. Sultan worked as a healthcare nurse coordinator, patient advocate, and clinical educator at Mission Healthcare from September 2014 to August 2017, and also served as a triage and admissions nurse at San Diego County Hospital from September 2006 to September 2009. She is a Certified BLS Instructor with the American Red Cross. She received associates education in biology, physiology, nursing at Mira Costa College in Encinitas, California and became a Licensed Nurse through Kaplan University in San Marcos, California.
Long Yi
Independent Director
Mr. Yi has served as Chief Financial Officer of Lakeside Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: LSH) since June 2024. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Bit Brother Limited (formerly known as Urban Tea Inc.), a company formerly listed on Nasdaq, from January 2018 to July 2021, and as the Chief Financial Officer of Baiyu Holdings, Inc. (formerly known as China Commercial Credit Inc.) (Nasdaq: BYU) from November 2012 to January 2018. Earlier in his career, he gained financial experience as Senior Group Financial Manager at AEM Components (2010–2012) and as Accounting Manager at SUTOR Technology Group (2008–2010). He holds two master’s degrees in accounting and finance from McGill University in Canada (2006) and University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands (2004). He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Northeastern University in Shen Yang, China (1998). Mr. Yi is a certified public accountant in the state of Illinois