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Dr. Zhaoyang Hu is Chairman of Board & CEO of Suzhou Crealights Technology Co. Ltd. from November 2011 and is its Founder. Dr. Hu is Director of Suzhou Crealights Technology Co. Ltd. from November 01, 2011 and was re-designated as an executive Director on October 23, 2025. Dr. Hu is primarily responsible for the overall strategic planning and making key business and operational decisions of the Group. Dr. Hu has experience in the optoelectronic interconnection industry. Before founding Group, he served as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Maryland, College Park from July 2000 to July 2001 and as a research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara from July 2001 to December 2006. He then successively served as the engineering manager at OCP, Inc. (was acquired by Oplink) and Oplink Communications Inc. from January 2007 to March 2009. He also served as the engineering director at Source Photonics Inc. in the United States from March 2009 to September 2011. Dr. Hu has served as an invited reviewer for seven internationally renowned journals and owns five technological achievements certified by the Office of Technology Transfer of the University of California. He has been granted multiple United States invention patents and has published over 50 academic papers, more than 40 of which are indexed by the Science Citation Index (SCI). He won the first prize of the 2nd China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the first prize of the 1st Jiangsu Technology to Entrepreneurship Competition in August 2013. He also won the title of Jiangsu Province High-Level Innovation and Entrepreneurial Talent Introduction Plan awarded by Jiangsu Provincial Leading Group for Talent Work in October 2013, Gusu Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leading Talent awarded by Suzhou Municipal People’s Government in February 2013 and Six Talent Peaks awarded by Jiangsu Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security in November 2014. Dr. Hu obtained his bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering and his master’s degree in inertial technology and its navigation equipment from Beihang University in the PRC in July 1992 and in March 1997, respectively. He further obtained his doctorate degree in precision instruments and machinery from Tsinghua University in the PRC in June 2000.