Management

Dr. Leo Li, Chairman, CEO and President of Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., has more than 23 years of experience in the wireless communications industry, joining Spreadtrum in May 2008. From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Li served as the CEO of Magicomm Technology Inc., a cell phone product development company. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Li served as Senior Business Development Director at Broadcom and was responsible for a line of GSM/GPRS/EDGE/WCDMA baseband business. From 1998 to 2002, Dr. Li served as General Manager of Mobile Phone Product and Vice President of Mobilink Telecom, a GSM baseband start-up company that was sold to Broadcom in 2002. Prior to 1998, Dr. Li held various senior engineering and program management positions at Rockwell Semiconductors and Ericsson. Dr. Li holds 10 patents in wireless communication systems, RF IC system and circuit designs, and RFID applications.

Dr. Li received a BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China; a MS degree from the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China; a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, USA; and an MBA degree from the National University in La Jolla, California, USA.

Shannon Gao is our Chief Financial Officer. Prior to assuming this position in March 2010, she had served as our Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller since 2009. Ms. Gao has been with Spreadtrum since its inception in 2001. Before joining us, Ms. Gao held management roles in various CPA firms in the USA. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California. Ms. Gao received a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Economics from Harbin Institute of Technology in China and a Master Degree in Accounting from the University of Toledo in the United States.

Diana Jovin is Vice President of Strategy and Investor Relations of Spreadtrum. Before joining the company in June 2011, Ms. Jovin was VP of Corporate Marketing and Business Development for mobile TV provider Telegent Systems. In this role, she developed relationships with local handset brands, operators, value-added service providers and advertising partners in emerging markets, and was responsible for the company’s communications program. Before Telegent, Ms. Jovin built two software companies from concept through acquisition, including CascadeWorks, where she was co-founder and CEO, and NetDynamics, where she was Director of Marketing and which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998. Ms. Jovin holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business and a BA from Harvard University.