Baidu Appoints Lu Qi as Group President and Chief Operating Officer
Baidu today announced the appointment of Lu Qi as the president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group, responsible for products, technology, sales and marketing. The appointment takes effect immediately.
Lu Qi
Lu Qi
Baidu's existing business groups and principals will report directly to Lu Qi, including Long, president of the search company, Zhang Yaqin, president of the technology systems and emerging business group, senior vice president of the financial business group, Wang Jin, senior vice president of the financial business group, leading the unmanned sector, Wu Danda, chief scientist, leading the AI technology team, and Lu Qi, who will report directly to Li Baobin, CEO of Baidu Group.
Li Bin, chairman and CEO of Baidu, said: "I am very happy that Dr. Lu Qi joined Baidu. "Lucky is an outstanding management talent in the global technology industry and a senior manager of the US technology giant. He has rich management experience, outstanding technical insight and excellent team leadership. Luji or the world-class AI technology authority and I believe that Luqi's participation will greatly improve Baidu's comprehensive management and technical strength. He will work with the existing team to A good Chinese company to Baidu, upgraded to an excellent world-class company! Baidu has decided to take the company's AI as the most important strategic direction in the next ten years, and the landing strategy will need to continue to attract world-class talents. Lu Qi's participation will greatly ensure the smooth implementation of this strategy, help Baidu to become the world leader in the era of AI, and make Chinese people proud of world-class high-tech companies. “。
Lu Qi, president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group, said: "I am very happy to be invited by Mr. Li to join Baidu. Li Bin is the global influence of China's heavyweight entrepreneurs. Baidu is the most widely distributed AI in this field in China, a powerful technology company, and even the best technology strength in the world. Li Yanhong regards AI as Baidu's most important strategic direction, which is a very farsighted and correct decision for the next decade. For specific management, I am very excited about the opportunity to help Baidu become a world-class technology giant in the era of AI! Under the leadership of Mr. Li, I will work with my colleagues at Baidu to strive for excellence, and Baidu will create an era of artificial intelligence for the world's leading high-tech company!
Lu Qi graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical science and a master's degree in computing. After studying at Carnegie Mellon University, he obtained a doctor's degree in computer science.
Lurgi joined Yahoo in 1998 and was promoted to executive vice president of Yahoo in 2007. In August 2008, Luqi left Yahoo and officially joined Microsoft as the president of the Internet Services Group in January. In 2013, as the executive vice president of Microsoft Group, Luqi announced his departure from Microsoft in September 2016.
During his stay at Microsoft, he led some enterprises, including Microsoft Office, Office365, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Lync, Skype, Bing, Bing, MSN and advertising platforms. He is the head of the global technology company China. The highest level of the bit.
