Bitauto Holdings Limited announced the appointment of Mr. Lei Zhu as its chief technology officer, effective on December 1, 2016. Before joining Bitauto, Mr. Zhu served for two years as Vice President of Didi Chuxing where he was also General Manager of its Commercial Business Division, responsible for commercialization strategy and product development related to automobiles, advertising, big data analytics as well as strategic alliances. Before joining Didi Chuxing, Mr. Zhu worked at Baidu from 2007 to 2012.