What Happened?
New York, NY-based Cheetah Mobile Appointed Charles Fan as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM) is the world`s leading mobile security and utility app developer. Its flagship products include Clean Master, the world`s No. 1 cleaning app, and also CM Security, the world`s top anti-virus and privacy protection app. Cheetah Mobile is also one of the top three mobile game developers in the world, with its mobile game Piano Tiles 2 having reached the No. 1 ranking in more than 150 countries globally on both iOS and Android. Its other mission-critical applications include Battery Doctor, CM Locker, Photo Grid, and more. In June 2015, Cheetah Mobile introduced the Cheetah Ad Platform to the global market.
About the Person
Charles Fan joins Cheetah Mobile from VMware, a leading cloud computing company, where he served as Senior Vice President leading its storage and big data businesses. Charles was also the founder of VMware and EMC`s China R&D Centers and grew them from 0 to over 1,000 engineers within three years. Charles started his career as an entrepreneur, co-founding file virtualization startup Rainfinity, which was acquired by EMC in 2005. Charles is an expert in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure and big data, holding a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Cooper Union.
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