Cheetah Mobile Inc. named Charles Fan as its new Chief Technology Officer. From this new position he will lead the global R&D activities for the company.
Based out of Silicon Valley, Fan will also lead the creation of a major presence of Cheetah Mobile in the U.S.
Charles Fan joins Cheetah Mobile from VMware, a leading cloud computing company, where he served as Senior Vice President leading its storage and big data businesses.
Cheetah Mobile has a goal of growing the Silicon Valley office into its second worldwide headquarters alongside Beijing.
Entrepreneur
Charles Fan was founder of VMware and EMC’s China R&D Centers. He suceed growing grew them from 0 to over 1,000 engineers within three years.
Fan 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.
Growth plans in the US and hiring
The company 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.
Cheetah expects to significantly expand its U.S. operations and hiring over the next two years.
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, at least this expects the company, 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 people around the globe.
Leader in mobile security and operator of Cheetah Ad Platform
Cheetah Mobile 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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