SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheetah
Mobile Inc., the world's leading mobile security and utility app developer, today named Charles
Fan as its new Chief Technology Officer. Charles will lead the global R&D activities for the company. Based out
of Silicon Valley, Charles will also lead the creation of a major presence of Cheetah Mobile
in the U.S. Cheetah Mobile has a goal of growing the Silicon Valley office into its second worldwide headquarters alongside Beijing.
Charles 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.
A successful big data strategy is key to Cheetah Mobile's next stage of growth. Cheetah Mobile will establish a major
R&D Center in Silicon Valley, to work alongside engineers at other R&D Centers to execute
the big data strategy. This will allow Cheetah Mobile to better attract worldwide talent and serve its more than 567 million
mobile monthly active users, 74% of which are outside of China. Cheetah Mobile currently employs more than 1,400 R&D
personnel around the globe.
"I'm thrilled to join one of the fastest-growing mobile companies in the world," said Cheetah Mobile CTO Charles Fan. "Cheetah Mobile has succeeded at achieving a truly global footprint, and I'm excited to lead its
technology team as it continues its mission of making the mobile experience speedier, simpler, and safer."
Cheetah Mobile President and former CTO Ming Xu is handing over the CTO role to Charles in
order to focus more on overall management of the company.
"We're delighted to welcome Charles to the Cheetah Mobile family," said Ming Xu, President of
Cheetah Mobile. "I know our big data and R&D are in very capable hands. I'm looking forward to going deeper with Cheetah
Mobile's management and product operations."
"Combining proven leadership and a deep insight into technology, Charles is the perfect person to lead our technology team,
and to take our U.S. presence to the next level," said Sheng Fu, CEO of Cheetah Mobile.
"China and the U.S. are the two centers of the mobile Internet industry today. As one of the
most successful companies to develop business abroad in China's mobile internet industry,
Cheetah Mobile will ramp up our investments in both centers, especially the U.S. market, to connect the global markets, as well
as to deliver innovations to our users around the world."
Cheetah Mobile first established its U.S. operations in early 2014. At present, the company has roughly 50 employees based in
the US, across three offices in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and New York. The company
expects to significantly expand its U.S. operations and hiring over the next two years.
About Cheetah Mobile Inc.
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.
As of September 30, 2015, Cheetah Mobile had approximately 1.942 billion global installations
and 567 million global mobile monthly active users. Five of Cheetah Mobile's products have entered the top 40 in Google Play's
global top app charts.
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industries including internet companies that provide online marketing services and internet value-added services; expected
changes in Cheetah Mobile's revenues and certain cost or expense items; and general economic and business condition globally and
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