Ziyu Shen has served as our director and Chief Executive Officer since November 2019 and our Chairman since May 2021. Mr. Shen has served as director and Chief Executive Officer of Hubei ECARX since 2017. In addition to his current roles in our company, Mr. Shen is also serving as a director of DREAMSMART TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hubei Xingji Meizu Group Co., Ltd. Prior to founding ECARX, Mr. Shen served as General Manager of Shanghai Pateo Network Technology Service Co., Ltd. from October 2012 to March 2016. Earlier in his career, Mr. Shen was an industry director of T-Systems P.R. China Ltd. from October 2011 to October 2012, and before then he worked at Shanghai OnStar Telematics Service Co., Ltd. as senior manager from August 2009 to October 2011, and had worked as an engineer and then as a senior manager at Shanghai General Motors Company Limited from August 2006 to August 2008. Mr. Shen received a master’s degree in information security from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008.
Ramesh Narasimhan has served as our Chief Financial Officer since September 2022. Mr. Narasimhan is a highly experienced finance, marketing, sales and strategy executive who has worked with OEMs, distributers and retail businesses across the global automotive industry. He recently served as Chief Financial Officer for Al Futtaim, an automotive distribution and retailing company. Prior to that, he was at Nissan Australia and New Zealand as Chief Financial Officer and subsequently served as President and Managing Director for the Philippines and Thailand managing both manufacturing and distribution. Mr. Narasimhan began his career with Ford Motor Company where he worked through a number of senior financial roles. Mr. Narasimhan has an MBA from Monash University in Australia.
Peter Cirino has served as our Chief Operating Officer since September 2022. Mr. Cirino has more than 25 years’ experience in automotive technology and electronics having led organizations across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Most recently, Mr. Cirino led Aptiv’s connections systems business in the Americas. Prior to Aptiv, he led A123 Systems, an emerging lithium-ion battery business operating across China, Europe and North America. Mr. Cirino has a BS Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and MBA from Duke University, both in the US.
Kelvin Du joined ECARX as Vice President of Product Development in late 2020 and has served as President of China since October 2022. Before ECARX, he served as Deputy General manager and subsequently General Manager at PATEO, participating in the development and launch of the industry's first 3G Android IVI system in 2010, inkaNet, as well as the first in-vehicle voice assistant on the cloud, iVoka. He has extensive operation experience in the EMS industry having served as General Manager of Speedy-Tech Electronics (Jiaxing), TDG Technology (Zhejiang) and DBG Technology (Jiaxing). Kelvin graduated from Nanjing College of Aeronautics (now Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), majoring in electrical engineering and has an MBA degree from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.
Phil Zhou has more than 20 years’ of experience in finance and business operations in the information technology industry of Greater China and the North Asia market. He joined Ecarx Technology in 2021 as Chief of Staff to the CEO and Vice President of Business Operations and has served as Senior Vice President and China CFO since October 2022. Mr. Zhou Jing previously held the senior management positions in a number of high-tech enterprises, including VP of Sales Operations in Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Group, General Manager of Business and Sales Operations in Microsoft Greater China, and Head of Business Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO of Amazon Web Services Greater China, where he was responsible for overall business planning, go-to-market strategy development and commercial operations. He also took the regional managing director role of Shanghai or East China offices. Mr. Zhou had served as Dell Inc's senior finance director in Greater China for a long time, responsible for financial planning and analysis, product planning and pricing strategies, revenue and profitable growth strategies, go-to-market model design and implementation, cash flow management, and internal control & assurance. Mr. Zhou received his bachelor's degree of management science from Fudan University and his master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis.