Robin Li

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Mr. Robin Li is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Baidu. He serves as Chairman at Baidu Ventures. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at BioMap. He received a bachelor of science degree in information management from Peking University in 1991 and a master of science degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994. He worked as a senior consultant at a subsidiary of Dow Jones and designed the real-time financial information system for the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. He received a US patent for a system of hyperlink analysis in 1999, one of the inventions that has helped shape today's search technology. He later joined InfoSeek, one of the early search engines, in Silicon Valley as a senior engineer. Since founding the company in January 2000, he has led Baidu to be China's largest search engine, with over 70% market share. Baidu is the largest Chinese search engine globally and the second-largest independent search engine in the world. China is among the four countries globally-alongside the United States, Russia, and South Korea-to possess its own core search engine technology. Through innovations such as Box Computing to Baidu's Open Data and Open App Platform, he has substantially advanced the theoretical framework of China's Internet sciences, propelling Baidu to be the vanguard of China's Internet industry. In 2005, Baidu became a NASDAQ-listed public company and in 2007 was the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index. In 2007, The Financial Times listed Baidu as one of the Top 10 Chinese Global Brands, with Baidu being the youngest company, as well as the only Internet company, in the top ten. As one of the pioneers and leading figures in China's Internet industry, his achievements are widely recognized. In 2013, he became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He currently acts as Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and Vice Chairman of the Internet Society of China (ISC). He is a "1000 Talent" National Distinguished Expert and has received honors including "CCTV Key Figure in China's Economy," "The Top 30 Figures in China's 30 Years of Reform," "Ten IT Leaders," and many others. He topped Forbes' list of "2012 China's Best CEOs" and was named in Forbes' List of World's Most Powerful People three years in a row. Magazines such as BusinessWeek and Time Magazine have repeatedly put him on the lists of "Best Business Leaders in the World" and "China's Most Influential Business Leaders." He is also an Angel Investor.