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Mr. Sean Shao has served as our Director since August 2015. Mr. Shao also serves as independent director and chairman of the audit committee for UTStarcom Holdings Corp. (a company listed on Nasdaq, Nasdaq: UTSI) since October 2012. He served as chief financial officer and a board member of Trina Solar Limited from 2006 to 2008 and from 2015 to 2017, respectively. Mr. Shao was also an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of Luckin Coffee Inc. from May 2019 through July 2020 and was re-appointed as an independent director of Luckin Coffee Inc. in September 2020. He was also the chairman of a special committee of the board which investigated accounting improprieties at Luckin Coffee Inc. during 2020. In addition, Mr. Shao served as chief financial officer of ChinaEdu Corporation and Watchdata Technologies Ltd from 2004 to 2006. Prior to that, Mr. Shao worked at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd. for approximately a decade. Mr. Shao received his master's degree in healthcare administration from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1988 and his bachelor's degree in arts from East China Normal University in 1982. Mr. Shao is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. Yoshihisa Ueno has served as our Director since October 2010. Mr. Ueno is a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist with operations and industrial expertise in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China and over 40 years of incubation investment experience in emerging technology startups. Mr. Ueno has been our lead investor and board member of several of our affiliated companies since 2006. Mr. Ueno has been the founding partner of Synapse Company Limited and Synapse Partners Limited since December 2002, Synapse Holdings Limited since October 2013 and SMC Synapse Partners Limited from December 2010 to September 2015. Mr. Ueno has also been a director of several start-up portfolios such as Hivelocity Inc. from May 2015 to March 2023 and Catalyst Group Limited (Exicon Limited) from March 2015. Mr. Ueno has also served as director of Beyondsoft Corporation (a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, stock code: 2649), from September 2005 to March 2010, CDS GS Japan Ltd. (a joint venture with CDC Corp. NASQAQ: CHINA) from June 2011 to April 2012, and Insource (HK) Ltd. (a JV with Insource Co., Ltd. (a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, stock code: 6200)) from December 2011 to September 2014. Mr. Ueno has managed several venture funds such as the Japan-China Bridge Fund from March 2005 to February 2011, Intellectual Property Bank (IPB) Partners Fund #1 in Japan from March 2006 to March 2010 and IPB Holding LLC in the U.S. from March 2006 to July 2007. Mr. Ueno also served as the chief executive officer at Cycolor, Inc., in the U.S. from September 1998 to June 2003, until Cycolor, Inc. was acquired by Eastman Kodak in early 2003. Mr. Ueno worked for Fujitec from April 1985 to May 1997 in various managerial capacities in Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Spain and Hong Kong. Mr. Ueno received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Takushoku University.

Mr. David Lifeng Chen has served as our Director since July 2024. Mr. Chen is a seasoned tech entrepreneur, executive, and venture capitalist with extensive operational and industrial expertise in both the U.S. and Asia. Since 2017, he has been serving as an Operating Partner for the Hongshan CBC Cross-border Digital Fund, a specialized fund dedicated to assisting global technology companies in entering or restructuring their businesses in China. He serves on the boards of GitLab China JV since 2021 and Atos China JV since 2018, respectively. From 2001 to 2012, Mr. Chen was the Co-Founder, and former Vice Chairman and President of VanceInfo, which later merged with HiSoft to form Pactera. Pactera was recognized by IDC as the largest banking IT services and solutions provider in China and was ranked among the global top 100 FinTech companies in 2020. Prior to founding VanceInfo in Beijing, Mr. Chen began his career in Silicon Valley, holding multiple management and technical positions at Asera, IBM Crossworlds, KPMG Consulting, and Oracle from 1995 to 2001. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Tongji University and a master's degree in computer engineering from the University of California, Irvine.

Mr. Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai has served as our Director since October 2012. Mr. Tai is a prominent figure in the Taiwanese technology sector with over 40 years of industry experience with leading technology and hardware companies in Taiwan and the U.S. Mr. Tai co-founded Acer Computer in 1976, which has become one of the top five branded PC vendors in the world today, and held various managerial positions during his tenure. Later in his technology career, Mr. Tai founded Investar Capital, a venture capital firm focusing on IT companies. Furthermore, Mr. Tai is the chairman of Zettabyte, Asia's leading AI data center (AIDC) software and systems technology provider (a company listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, stock code: 3231) and WBG Works Corporation since 2025. Currently, Mr. Tai serves on the board of directors of several public and private companies in Taiwan and the Chinese mainland,, including Chief Telecom Corporation (a company listed on Taipei Exchange, stock code: 6561), Tong Hsing Electronic Industries Ltd. (a company listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, stock code: 6271), Wafer Works Corp (a company listed on the Taipei Exchange, stock code: 6182), Wafer Works Shanghai Co. LTD (a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, stock code: 688584), V5 TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. (a company listed on the Taipei Exchange, stock code: 7822), Lumens Integration Inc, and Digitimes Incorporated (the only technology-focused newspaper in Taiwan). Mr. Tai received a master's degree in business administration from Tam Kang University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.

Mr. Sheng Chen, also known as Josh Sheng Chen, is our founder and has served as the executive chairperson of the board from the company's inception. He has also served as interim CEO since April 2024. Mr. Chen has been dedicating himself for nearly 30 years to the fields of Internet infrastructure and information technology of next generation. He is a leader in the industry technical architecture design and product innovation. Mr. Chen founded our business in May 1996 and started the first carrier-neutral data center in China in July 1999. Mr. Chen has currently served as the Co-Executive Director of the Energy Internet Research Institute of Tsinghua University (EIRI), director of China Info100, the Vice Chairman of China Energy Internet Alliance (CEIA), and the Chairman of Zhongguancun CyberNext New Infrastructure Alliance. Mr. Chen received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 1991.

Mr. Zhihua Zhang joined VNET in October 2019 and currently serves as our senior vice president of operational finance, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer. He is an experienced finance executive with broad leadership experience across global and China-based enterprises and deep expertise in corporate financial governance and operations across multiple industries. He joined VNET to oversee the Company's accounting, taxation, and compliance functions. In addition, he has played a key role in establishing financial systems for several of the Company's business units, effectively supporting the Company's operational compliance and steady growth, and leads the Company's domestic debt financing initiatives and strategic partnership with Microsoft. Prior to joining VNET, he served as Chief Financial Officer at a TMT enterprise and as finance director at Anta Group, as well as in key finance roles at Lenovo and TDK. Mr. Zhang is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA, USA) and holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Jilin University and a Master of Business Administration from Renmin University of China.