Founder, Chairman and CEO, Hudong.com (Beijing)

Haidong Pan, Ph.D., is founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ofHudong.com Inc. Under his excellent leadership, www.hudong.com has grown to be the largest and most influential wiki-enabled “Knowledge Media” where over one million contributors have collectively edited three million articles.

The company’s product, HDWiki, the first open source Chinese wiki software, dominates with 90% market share in China. Before that, Dr. Pan served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) with AsiaEC.com (now Office Depot China), the largest online e-procurement office supplies company in China. While studying in Boston University, Dr. Pan acted as co-president of Harvard China Review and organized its annual conference that attracted mainstream media in both US and China. Besides that, the MIT talent forum he organized as conference chair stirred the returning enthusiasm among overseas Chinese students and scholars.

Mr. Pan obtained Ph.D. in systems engineering from Boston Univ., M.S. from Tsinghua Univ., and B.S. from Beijing Science & Technology University. He also joined the "Advanced History Studies Program" in Dept. of History, Peking University.

Dr. Pan is a frequent speaker at ad:tech, CHINICT, iResearch, AAMA and other events. Dr. Pan is the “Cradle Plan” entrepreneur with Asia America Multi-technology Association (AAMA). Dr. Pan is a council member of All-China Youth Federation and committee member of Overseas Returnee Association ACYF. Dr. Pan currently serves as vice chairman with Boston University Alumni Association China.