CDC Corporation (Nasdaq: CHINA)

 Peter Yip is the chief executive officer of CDC Corporation and vice chairman of the board of directors. In addition, Mr. Yip serves as executive chairman to the board of directors of CDC Software and chief executive officer of CDC Games. Mr. Yip was a founding CEO of the
Company. Under his leadership, the Company was one of the first successful initial public
offerings of an internet company from Greater China to be listed on NASDAQ, opening the
door for other Chinese entrepreneurs to list their ventures in the U.S. capital markets.
Mr. Yip is also Chairman of China Pacific Capital, a family-owned direct investment fund.
Mr. Yip has over two decades of entrepreneurial and direct investment experience in the
United States and the Asia Pacific region in which he has co-founded or provided seed
funding to a number of successful start-up entities, including Linkage Online, Gartner Group
Asia, Interleaf Asia and Online Software Asia. In addition, Mr. Yip has made a number of
successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals, a Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc.,
Mitsui & Co. Ltd., America Online, Inc., Merrill Lynch-Fred Adler Technology Fund II and
the New World Group. Mr. Yip previously held management positions at KPMG Consulting
and Wharton Applied Research.
Mr. Yip is a frequent speaker at various international conferences, including the Harvard
Business School, Fortune CEO Global Forum, World Economics Forum, Forbes CEO Forum,
Businessweek CIO Forum, M.I.T. Enterprise Forum, U.S./Japan Symposium on Corporate
Partnership, United Nations Conference on Science & Technology, Harvard University’s
Conference on Internet & Society, Nikkei International Conference. CDC’s business model
was a case study at Harvard Business School in 1996. He has authored research papers
published at Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Nanjing University Press, National Science
Foundation. He recently co-authored a book titled ‘The China’s Century’ with former China
Premier Zhu Yongji, amongst others.
Mr. Yip received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his
MSEE and BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an associate degree
from Vincennes University in Indianna.