Peter Yip

Director and Chief Executive Officer, CDC Games

Peter Yip has served as a director of our board since December 2006 and has been our chief executive officer since May 2007. Mr. Yip is a member of our nominating, compensation and executive committees. In addition, Mr. Yip is serving as the chief executive officer and executive vice chairman of the board of directors of our parent company, CDC Corporation. In addition, Mr. Yip serves as executive chairman to the board of directors of CDC Software. Mr. Yip was a founder of CDC Corporation and served as chief executive officer between 1999 and February 2005. Under his leadership, CDC Corporation 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 the chief executive officer of China.com Inc. Mr. Yip is chairman of China Pacific Capital, and has over two decades of entrepreneurial and direct investment experience in the U.S. 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, YipKon Business Systems and Online Software Asia. In addition, Mr. Yip's family-owned direct investment fund has made a number of successful co-investments with institutional investors, corporate investors and high net worth individuals, including CEF (a prior joint venture between Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and GE Capital), a Temasek Holdings company, Xinhua News Agency, Bechtel Enterprises Inc., Mitsui & Co. Ltd., Bay Networks Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., 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. In 2000, the Wharton Business School presented Mr. Yip with is Asian Alumni Entrepreneur Award. Mr. Yip received a master's degree in business administration from the Wharton School and both a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He also received an associate degree in Engineering and an hononary doctorate degree in Business from Vincennes University in Indiana. Mr. Yip is the father of Antony Ip.