Chunyuan Gu (1958, Swedish) was appointed a non-executive director of our board of directors effective June 2022. Mr. Gu has over 30 years of experience working at ABB Ltd., a global pioneering technology leader in electrification and automation serving customers in utility, industry, transportation and infrastructure. Mr. Gu began his career at ABB Corporate Research in Sweden in 1989, and has held various roles and functions in R&D, manufacturing operations and general management. Since 2020, Mr. Gu serves in an advisory capacity as chair of the board of ABB (China) Ltd. From 2017 to 2019, Mr. Gu was a member of the ABB group executive committee and president of the Asia, the Middle East and Africa region. From 2014 to 2017, Mr. Gu served as president and CEO of ABB China.
Since 2020, Mr. Gu has served as a non-executive director of CLP Holdings Limited. Since 2021, Mr. Gu has served as senior advisor at Blackstone Ltd. He holds a bachelor of engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a PhD, school of aeronautics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Mr. Gu is a fellow of IVA, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.