E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Limited announced that Dr. Cheng Li-Lan has been appointed as the chief financial officer, with effect from 19 February 2023. The biographical details of Dr. Cheng and Mr. Xie are set out below: Dr. Cheng Li-Lan aged 58, is currently an executive director of the Company, a position he has held since 2018. He has also been the acting chief financial officer of Leju Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of the Company, since 2017, and was its executive director from 2014 to 2017.

Dr. Cheng served as the chief operating officer of E-House (China) Holdings Limited from 2012 to 2018 and its chief financial officer from 2006 to 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Dr. Cheng served as the chief financial officer of SouFun Holdings Limited, from 2005 to 2006. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Cheng served as an executive director and the chief financial officer of SOHO China Limited, a real estate developer in Beijing.

Dr. Cheng was an assistant director and the head of the Asian transportation sector investment banking group of ABN AMRO Asia from 1997 to 2002. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Cheng was a senior analyst at the National Economic Research Associates Inc., an economic and financial consulting firm in New York. From 1989 to 1991, he was an investment trainee and analyst at the Prudential Investment Corporation, the institutional investment subsidiary of the Prudential Insurance Company of America based in Newark, NJ.

Dr. Cheng is an independent director and audit committee chairman of Yunji Inc. He also served as an independent director and on the audit committee of 51job Inc. LAIX Inc, Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain Co. Ltd. and Le GAGA Holdings Limited, Dr. Cheng received a bachelor ' s degree in Economics from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Cheng is a chartered financial analyst.