The following members make up the WATERDROP Board of Directors.  Please select an individual member below to learn more about them and the committees they contribute to.

  • Peng Shen

    Chairman

    Dr. Peng Shen is our founder, and has served as the chairman of our board of directors and chief executive officer since our inception, and is responsible for the overall strategy and business operations of Waterdrop. Dr. Shen has extensive experience and expertise in the technology and internet sectors in China. Prior to founding Waterdrop in 2016, in January 2010, Dr. Shen joined Meituan (HKSE: 03690), a leading e-commerce platform in China, at its early stage, as one of its earliest management members. He was also one of the founding team members of Meituan Waimai, which provides food delivery services. Dr. Shen participated in the entrepreneurship of Meituan Waimai from scratch since July 2013, where he was responsible for internet R&D, formulating operational rules, and establishing and managing the business system, helping Meituan Waimai develop into one of the most popular apps in China. In honor of his contributions to China’s insurtech industry, innovative pharmaceutical CRO industry and otherfields, as well as the establishment and operation of Waterdrop, Dr. Shen was awarded Zhongguancun High-end Leading Entrepreneurial Talent- Certificate by Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission in 2019, named to Fortune China’s list of the “2020 40 under 40 in China” and World Economic Forum’s list of “2022 Young Global Leaders,” and awarded “Beijing Model-Rural Revitalization, Support and Cooperation Pioneer”by Beijing Municipal Government. Currently, Dr. Shen is also the Vice President of Beijing Chaoyang District High-tech Enterprise Association, a member of the School Affairs Council of HKU Business School, a member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce, a deputy director of the Overseas Scholars and Overseas Chinese Sector of the Beijing Youth Federation, and Vice President of Alumni Association of Zhejiang University-Hong Kong Polytechnic University Joint Center. Dr. Shen received a master’s degree in retail management from NEOMA Business School in France, an EMBA from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and a PhD in Hotel and Tourism Management from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

  • Guang Yang

    Director

    Mr. Guang Yang is our co-founder, and has served as our director, vice president of finance since June 2022 and general manager of international business since March 2023. Mr. Yang also served as general manager of insurance marketplace from November 2016 to March 2023. Mr. Yang is responsible for our international business, strategy and commercial insights as well as our accounting, financial and internal control matters. Prior to co-founding Waterdrop in April 2016, Mr. Yang served as the director of the strategy and investment department of Meituan (HKSE: 03690) from March 2015 to August 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Yang served as a senior manager at CEC Capital Group and served as a senior consultant of the merger and acquisition transaction service team at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. Mr. Yang received an honors degree in actuarial science specializing in finance from the University of Waterloo.

  • Wei Ran

    Director

    Mr. Wei Ran has served as our director and general manager of the insurance technology business since March 2023. He joined us in June 2016 as head of strategy and business analysis and was responsible for establishing our strategy and business analysis system and exploring new business initiatives since then. Before joining us, he worked as senior strategy analyst at Meituan Waimai, the food and grocery delivery business of Meituan (HKSE: 3690), from July 2015 to June 2016, where he was responsible for strategy and business analysis. Prior to that, he worked at Accenture Consulting, which provides consulting services to various enterprise clients, as a strategic consultant from July 2013 to June 2015, and participated in a number of digitalization projects for large and medium-sized enterprises in the energy and financial industries. Mr. Ran obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Shanghai Jiaotong University in June 2009, and a master’s degree in Software Engineering from Peking University in June 2013.

  • Haiyang Yu

    Director

    Mr. Haiyang Yu has served as our director since October 2019. Mr. Yu currently serves as the vice general manager of Tencent Investment. Prior to joining Tencent (HKSE: 00700) in August 2011, Mr. Yu worked as a senior associate at WI Harper Group from March 2010 to August 2011. Prior to that, Mr. Yu worked as an associate at China Growth Capital from April 2007 to February 2010. Mr. Yu obtained a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Tsinghua University.

  • Kai Huang

    Director

    Mr. Kai Huang has served as our director since March 2019. Mr. Huang currently serves as an executive director of Boyu Capital. Prior to joining Boyu Capital in June 2011, Mr. Huang worked as a senior accountant at Ernst & Young Consulting (China) from September 2010 to June 2011, and an accountant at Ernst & Young Huaming Accounting Firm from September 2008 to September 2010. Mr. Huang received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

  • Wenjie Guan

    Director

    Ms. Wenjie Guan has served as our director since September 2022. Ms. Guan currently serves as Head of Principal Investments and Acquisitions North Asia at Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer. Prior to joining Swiss Re in May 2016, Ms. Guan had eight years of experience in investment banking and served at Macquarie, UBS and Jefferies. Ms. Guan received a master’s degree in Engineering with first class honors from the University of Oxford and is a CFA charterholder.

  • Heping Feng

    Independent Director

    Mr. Heping Feng has served as our independent director since May 2021. Mr. Feng has served as the chairman of Beijing Daohexin Management Consulting Co., Ltd. since September 2017. From September 2014 to March 2017, Mr. Feng served as a senior advisor in PricewaterhouseCoopers. From April 2011 to August 2014, Mr. Feng served as the vice chairman of Morgan Stanley (China). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley (China), Mr. Feng was an audit partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1997 to 2011. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Feng served as an audit manager in Arthur Andersen LLP. From 1985 to 1993, Mr. Feng served as an auditor in China Accounting and Financial Management Consulting Company. Mr. Feng currently serves as an independent director of Tahoe Life Insurance Company Limited, Tahoe Life Insurance Company (Macau) Limited and Yinhua Fund Management Co., Ltd. Mr. Feng received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Shanxi University of Finance and Economics in 1982 and a master’s degree in western accounting from the Institute of Fiscal Science, Ministry of Finance of the PRC in 1985. He is a Certified Public Accountant in China.

  • Chenyang Wei

    Independent Director

    Mr. Chenyang Wei has served as our independent director since May 2021. Mr. Wei has served as the Associate Dean of Institute for Fintech Research, Tsinghua University and Director of China Insurance and Pension Research Center, the National Institute of Financial Research, Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance since April 2019. From December 2016 to March 2019, Mr. Wei served as a senior managing director and chief U.S. economist in Zenity Asset Management Inc., a silicon valley based asset management firm focusing on multi-sector asset allocation in the U.S. financial market. Prior to joining Zenity, Mr. Wei served as a director and head of credit research at AIG from August 2012 to December 2016. From June 2011 to August 2012, Mr. Wei was a senior economist with Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Wei was an economist with Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Wei is also an independent director of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited (HKSE: 2328), HSBC Life Insurance Company Limited, and China Index Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: CIH). Mr. Wei received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Tsinghua University in 1996, a master’s degree in economics from McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and a Ph.D. in finance from Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University in 2006.

  • Ning Zhu

    Independent Director

    Mr. Ning Zhu has served as our independent director since May 2022. Mr. Zhu has been a professor of finance and the deputy dean of Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance of Shanghai Jiaotong University since July 2010. Prior to that, Mr. Zhu was a tenured professor of finance at University of California (Davis) from 2003 to June 2010. Mr. Zhu is also an independent non-executive director of each of China Huarong Asset Management Co., Ltd. (HKEX: 2799) and CHINA BOHAI BANK CO., LTD. (HKEX: 9668), and an independent director of each of Molecular Data Inc. (Nasdaq: MKD), Jinke Property Group Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 000656) and China CITIC Bank International Limited. Mr. Zhu received his bachelor’s degree in international finance from Peking University in 1997, master’s degree in management from Cornell University in 1999, and doctorate degree in finance from Yale University in 2003.