Jinxiang Lu has served as our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since January 2008. Mr. Lu has been involved with developing power generation systems and power grids in China for over 30 years. In the 1980s and 1990s, while in charge of various major power plant projects in Huanren, Benxi, Tiefa and Chao, he recognized the inherent limitations and drawbacks of a central power system and began developing proprietary distributed power generation and micro power grid designs, processes and functionality. His distributed power generation and micro grid system has been refined over the past 20 years by Mr. Lu and his team of engineers and now can efficiently and automatically produce both electricity and heat in a single facility. Based on this technology, Mr. Lu founded Liaoning GaoKe Energy Group Company Limited and Liaoning High-Tech Energy Saving and Thermoelectricity Design Research Institute in 2003 and serves as the president and chief executive officer of these companies. Mr. Lu holds a Masters degree from Harbin Science and Technology University where he studied power plants and grid network design.
Michael Zhang was elected to our board of directors in June 2010 and joined A-Power in January 2010 as Vice President, initially for the design, implementation, and management of A-Power's internal and disclosure control systems, and later his scope was expanded to include internal audit, strategic planning, and the integration of the Company's Evatech Co. Ltd. solar equipment manufacturing subsidiary in Japan. He has more than 18 years of experience in internal audit, internal controls, corporate governance, and risk management related services. Prior to joining A-Power, Mr. Zhang was Executive Director of Business Risk Services with Ernst & Young (China) Advisory Limited from August 2007 through May 2009. Previously he was Director of Enterprise Risk Services at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA Ltd., from April 2005 through May 2007, where his responsibilites included the provision of internal control (Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404) consulting services to a variety of corporate clients. Mr. Zhang earlier served with Lenovo Group Ltd. for more than four years as director of internal audit and internal controls and with China National Petroleum Corporation for seven years as an internal auditor and, initially, as a software engineer. He is a Certified Internal Auditor and a past member of the Internal Auditing Standards Board of the Institute of Internal Auditors. Mr. Zhang graduated from Northwest Univesity with a Bachelor's Degree in Computational Mathematics. He received a MBA in Finance from Hong Kong Chinese University. Since November 2010, Mr. Zhang has served as an independent director and audit committee chairman on the Board of Directors of China SHengda Packaging Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed China-based paper packaging company that has not relationship with A-Power. Since September 2009, he has served as an independent director in Beijing Kingstar Consulting Firm Limited, a development-stage consulting firm that has no relationship to A-Power. Since May 2009, he has served as independent director of Well-Tech (Changzhou) Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., a provider of professional mechanical manufacturing services that has no relationship to A-Power.
Zhenyu Fan has been a member of our board of directors since January 2008. Mr. Fan is an expert in power plant design and development. He possesses long-standing relationships with many of the large utilities, energy companies and governments in countries throughout Southeast Asia. With these strategic relationships, Mr. Fan has been instrumental in obtaining and managing projects for Chinese power companies in India, Indonesia and Vietnam to develop power plants ranging in size from a few megawatts to over 1 gigawatt. Since 2002, Mr. Fan has worked as a manager at China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corp.
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