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Shanda Online Announces Appointment of New Chief Technology Officer

Tuesday , December 01, 2009 17:30ET

SHANGHAI, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Shanda Online Holdings Limited ("Shanda Online"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited (Nasdaq: SNDA) ("Shanda" or the "Company"), today announced the appointment of Dr. Jing Zhu as the Chief Technology Officer.

Dr. Zhu joins Shanda Online from Yahoo! Inc. where he served as a Senior Director from 2001 to 2009. In his most recent post, he was in charge of Yahoo!'s next generation contextual ad-matching technology platform from 2007 to 2009. Under his leadership, the team took a research prototype and, in less than one year, launched a successful product that serves hundreds of millions of ad calls daily. From 2001 to 2006, he was in charge of the engineering team for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Address Book and Yahoo! Calendar. In this role, he was responsible for the overall engineering vision, strategy and execution of these applications. He helped significantly improve everything from anti-spam technology to back-end architecture, system reliability and performance, and the end-user experience. During the period, Yahoo! Mail had seen significant market share and user growth both in the US and worldwide. Dr. Zhu also managed the operations team that runs one of world's largest distributed server and storage systems.

Prior to Yahoo!, from 1998 to 2001, Dr. Zhu served in various senior technical management positions in mobile and optical networking companies in Silicon Valley.

From 1993-1998, Dr. Zhu worked as a scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he designed, developed and maintained C/C++ and Java-based software for scientific research in solid state and material physics.

Dr. Zhu graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai at the age of 17 and later obtained a Masters in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computational Solid State Physics from the same university. He is the author and co-author of six US patents.

"I am pleased that Dr. Jing Zhu has decided to join Shanda Online as our Chief Technology Officer," commented Ms. Judy Wang, Chief Executive Officer of Shanda Online. "His extensive experience and education will ensure that Shanda Online continues to forge ahead as a leader in the Chinese online digital content delivery, customer relationship management, and promotion-payment community businesses."