Haijian He has served as the chairman of our board of directors since August 2025. Mr. He is currently the chief financial officer of Baidu. Mr. He joined Baidu in July 2025 from Kingsoft Cloud Holdings Limited, where he served as executive director and chief financial officer since January 2020. Prior to joining Kingsoft Cloud, Mr. He served as an executive director of the TMT (telecommunications, media and technology) group and the mergers and acquisitions group sequentially at Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. from September 2015 to January 2020. Prior to that, Mr. He worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. successively from 2010 to 2015. Mr. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Sipai Health Technology Co., Ltd. and Sunwoda EVB Co., Ltd. Mr. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in electronic engineering from Southeast University and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and completed an Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School. Mr. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charter holder.