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HUI XU
Founder and CEO
HiPiHi, China
 

Profile

Hui Xu, the founder and CEO of HiPiHi, was the General Manager of MyWeb China and was nominated as one of the “Top Ten China Internet Heros” in 1999. Hui was also the chairman and CEO of JingQi XiShu Co. Ltd which became one of the most successful e-commerce site in 2000. Xuewei Rao, the Director & COO of HiPiHi founded Iscreate Communications Co. Ltd in 2000 and was also the vice-president of Guangdong High-Tech Chamber of Commerce. Its vice-president, Tracy Ji was the PR director of ZhaoPin.com which is the leading provider of online careers and recruitment resource in China.  Another founder, Xinhua Liu was the vice-president of 3721.com (a leading software development company acquired by Yahoo in 2003) and also the co-founder of “EMBA Club International”.  

HiPiHi is a China-based virtual world founded started by the company of the same name in Beijing in October 2005. HIPiHii a privately held company funded by GCIG. HiPiHi is the only virtual world in China and amongst the first companies worldwide to offer a truly collaborative, immense and open-ended experience to the users to create, inhabit and govern a new world of their own design.

Career Timeline
  • 2005  Founded HiPiHi the platform for virtual life
  • 2003  Set up "EMBA Club International"
  • 2001  Studied further in Peking University as the international EMBA
  • 2000  Chairman and CEO who started up Jingqi Xishu E-commerce Co. Ltd
  • 1999  Nominated as one of the "Top Ten China Internet Heroes"
  • 1998-1999 GM of MyWeb China. Devoted into the internet business.
  • 1990  Graduated from Business School of Wuhan University

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