Chairman
Lenovo Group
Yang Yuan-qing is Chairman of the Lenovo Group. Prior to assuming his current position, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Lenovo. Yang joined Lenovo in 1989 and became CEO in 2001. Under his leadership, Lenovo has been China's best-selling PC brand since 1997. In 1999, Lenovo ranked first in PC sales in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) and has maintained this position ever since.
Under Yang’s leadership,
Lenovo was listed as a Fortune 500 company in Fortune and topped the rankings
of the Financial Times’ 2007 Top 10 Chinese Global Brands Survey.
Yang expanded Lenovo’s distribution network, and established highly efficient
customer service networks. Likewise, Yang helped pioneer the ‘Home PC’
concept, which would successfully establish new business operational models
for small and medium enterprises.
Yang has been pivotal in Lenovo's conversion to a transnational enterprise, guiding the company to become the International Olympic Committee's worldwide partner in March 2004. In December 2004, when Lenovo acquired IBM’s PC Division, Yang emerged onto the world stage as the first Chinese executive to lead the takeover of an iconic Western business. Subsequently, integrating new businesses and different cultures has become one of Lenovo’s core competencies.