AutoNavi Strengthens Its Consumer-Oriented Businesses With New Management Hires
25 9월 2012 - 6:30PM
AutoNavi Holdings Limited ("AutoNavi" or the "Company")
(Nasdaq:AMAP), a leading provider of digital map content and
navigation and location-based solutions in China, today announced
the appointment of Ms. Jun Jin as vice president and chief
marketing officer, with immediate effect. Ms. Jin will oversee
AutoNavi's public relations, marketing and branding initiatives.
Ms. Jin joins AutoNavi from Amazon China, where she served as
director of corporate communications overseeing public relations,
product marketing and employee communications, and led the
company's public relations efforts during its e-commerce
re-branding from Joyo Amazon to Amazon China. Prior to Amazon
China, Ms. Jin held various roles over an 11-year period working at
Microsoft in the United States and China. In her most recent
position at Microsoft, she was director of marketing &
communications at Microsoft Research Asia, promoting Microsoft's
premier research organization in the Asia-Pacific region. Ms. Jin
received an M.B.A. and a master's degree from the University of
Chicago and a bachelor's degree from Peking University.
Concurrently, the Company also announced the appointments of Mr.
Hanping Feng and Mr. Jun Chen as vice presidents of technology,
with immediate effect. Mr. Feng will lead AutoNavi's mobile team in
the development and adoption of mobile map applications and
technologies, while Mr. Chen will lead the building and enhancement
of AutoNavi's data center infrastructure for its cloud-based map
service platform.
Mr. Feng previously worked at Google for nearly 10 years. While
at Google, Mr. Feng led its mobile technology team in China, which
launched and improved a variety of mobile products including Google
Maps and mobile search, localized a number of Google's global
mobile products and launched Android applications. Mr. Feng
received a bachelor's degree in automatic control and a master's
degree in systems engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, as
well as a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Mr. Chen joins AutoNavi from Tencent, where he served as an
engineering director, leading Tencent's data center and cloud
platform technology development and deployment since August 2009.
From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Chen worked at Google, where he led a
variety of cutting-edge data center networking projects for cloud
computing and was involved in the company's web search projects.
Prior to that, Mr. Chen served as a senior software engineer at
Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2005. Mr. Chen received a bachelor's
degree in civil engineering from South China University of
Technology and a master's degree in computer engineering from the
University of Southern California.
"We are pleased to have three new members of our senior
management team, who will further strengthen our existing
leadership team by adding extensive knowledge and experience in
their respective fields," said Mr. Congwu Cheng, chief executive
officer of AutoNavi. "With a shared passion for providing the best
possible mapping and navigation experiences in China, we are
confident they will make significant contributions to AutoNavi's
future as we navigate the mobile Internet space and expand our
businesses to the consumer community."
About AutoNavi Holdings Limited
AutoNavi Holdings Limited (Nasdaq:AMAP) is a leading provider of
digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in
China. At the core of its business is a comprehensive nationwide
digital map database that covers approximately 3.4 million
kilometers of roadway and over 20 million points of interest across
China. Through its digital map database and proprietary technology
platform, AutoNavi provides comprehensive, integrated navigation
and location-based solutions optimized for the Chinese market and
users, including automotive navigation solutions, mobile
location-based solutions and Internet location-based solutions, and
public sector and enterprise applications. For more information on
AutoNavi, please visit http://www.autonavi.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements made
under the "safe harbor" provisions of Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements
can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects,"
"anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes,"
"estimates," "confident" and similar statements. AutoNavi may also
make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports
filed with or furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases
and other written materials and in oral statements made by its
officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that
are not historical facts, including statements about AutoNavi's
beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking
statement, including but not limited to the following: AutoNavi's
ability to adequately maintain and update its digital map database
and minimize errors in its solutions; its current reliance on the
automotive navigation market and a small number of customers for a
substantial portion of its revenues; the project-based nature of
its public sector and enterprise applications business; its limited
operating history in the mobile/Internet location-based solutions
markets; compliance with a complex set of laws, rules and
regulations governing its surveying and mapping and other
businesses in China; competition in the navigation and
location-based solutions businesses in China; and its ability to
manage its growth effectively and efficiently. Further information
regarding these and other risks is included in AutoNavi's annual
report on Form 20-F as well as in its other filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. All information provided in
this press release is current as of the date of the press release,
and AutoNavi undertakes no duty to update such information, except
as required under applicable law.
CONTACT: For investor and media inquiries please contact:
In China:
Serena Shi
AutoNavi Holdings Limited
Tel: +86-10-8410-7883
E-mail: serena.shi@autonavi.com
Derek Mitchell
Ogilvy Financial, Beijing
Tel: +86-10-8520-3073
E-mail: amap@ogilvy.com
In the U.S.:
Jessica Barist Cohen
Ogilvy Financial, New York
Tel: +1-646-460-9989
E-mail: amap@ogilvy.com
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