Leah Dawn Xiaowei Ye
Ms. Xiaowei Ye was appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company effective 1 April 2019. She is also a Trustee of the China International Capital Corporation Charity Foundation since 2012. She was the senior vice president at Qualcomm, Inc. from 2022 to 2023 where she oversaw Chinese government affairs.
Ms. Xiaowei Ye was appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company effective 1 April 2019. She is also a Trustee of the China International Capital Corporation Charity Foundation since 2012. She was the senior vice president at Qualcomm, Inc. from 2022 to 2023 where she oversaw Chinese government affairs. She was the managing partner of the Beijing representative office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP from 2014 to 2018 and the co-managing partner of the Beijing representative office of Bingham McCutchen LLP from 2011 to 2014. She also served as a partner at Rimon P.C., Jones Day, and Allen & Overy and as a senior lawyer at the Beijing representative office of Shearman & Sterling.
Ms. Ye has over 25 years of legal experience representing large Chinese companies, financial institutions, and investment funds with respect to their incorporation, initial public listing and offerings, overseas investments, project financing, and other matters. She has also represented multinationals in their investments and their regulatory matters in China.
Ms. Ye is admitted to practice law in the People’s Republic of China and the District of Columbia of the United States. She was a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in the People’s Republic of China from 2004 to 2018. She graduated with a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1988. Her alias and former name is 葉小瑋.