Mr. Ning Tang is Founder of CreditEase Holdings (Cayman) Limited and serves as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Tang founded Creditease Corp. in 2006 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. In 1997, he went to Bangladesh to work with Grameen Bank, where he was exposed to the impact of micro-finance. Thereafter, he worked on Wall Street in investment banking at DLJ and returned to China in 2000 and served as the Director of mergers and acquisitions at Asia Info, a NASDAQ listed company. Prior to founding CreditEase, he served as the director of strategic investments and acquisitions at AsiaInfo-Linkage, Inc., a leading provider of telecommunication software solutions and services in China then listed on NASDAQ, since July 2000. Prior to that, he served as an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a U.S. investment bank now owned by Credit Suisse, since July 1998. He has been Executive Chairman of Yirendai Ltd. since March 2012. Mr. Tang serves as Chairman of the Board of CreditEase Holdings (Cayman) Limited. He serves also as the Chairman of China Growth Capital, an early stage incubation fund. In December 2014, he was elected to be the chairman of the Beijing P2P Association. In July 2011, he won the nomination of Leader of the Year in the Global Microfinance Achievement Awards 2011, initiated by the London-based C5 Group to recognize the efforts, innovations and services that ensure maximum business and social returns in the microfinance sector. He is also a member of the advisory board to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology with respect to small and medium-sized enterprises related policies and a director at the China Microfinance Institution Association. He is an active angel investor and has made several successful investments in the education and training, financial services, human resources services, internet, technology and media industries. He studied mathematics at Peking University and received his bachelor's degree in economics, summa cum laude, from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.