Board of Directors

Henrik Kjellberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Compensation Committee
Henrik Kjellberg has been Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Compensation Committee since March 2007, a member of our Board of Directors since October 2005, and was our Interim CEO for a portion of 2007. Mr. Kjellberg is also President of Expedia Affiliate Network (“EAN”), a division of Expedia. Prior to assuming his responsibilities at EAN, Mr. Kjellberg was President of Expedia Asia Pacific, and was also formerly Expedia’s Senior Vice President of international lodging and destination services as well as Vice President and Managing Director, Supply Europe. Prior to joining Expedia, Mr. Kjellberg worked for Procter & Gamble and Scandinavian Internet portal Spray. Mr. Kjellberg holds a Master’s of Science in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Fernando Gil de Bernabé, Member of the Audit Committee
Fernando Gil de Bernabé has been a member of our Board of Directors and our Audit Committee since December 2009, and is Senior Director for Strategy, Planing and Governance of the APJC region for Cisco Systems. He is a member of the APJC Core Executive Team and of the Cisco China Board. He joined Cisco in 1999 to build the Internet Business Solutions Group’s Telecom practice in EMEA, where he also led a number of global strategic initiatives. In September 2008, he joined Cisco’s China 3.0 team in Shanghai and in May 2010 was appointed Managing Director of Strategy and Planning for the Greater China Theatre. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Gil de Bernabé worked in management consulting, as a founding member and later equity partner of Global Technology Ventures, Arthur D. Little's Silicon Valley office. Before that he worked in two software startups in Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Gil de Bernabé holds an MBA and a Management of Technology certificate from the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, and a Higher Telecom Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain. He is editor of the annual Broadband Quality Study.

Guangfu Cui
Guangfu Cui has served as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2007, and as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2011. Prior to joining eLong, Mr. Cui was the Managing Director for FedEx Kinko's China for more than three years. Prior to FedEx Kinko's, Mr. Cui worked for Procter & Gamble for over 12 years, including two and half years working in the United States. Mr. Cui holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a BA in Law from Peking University.

Dhiren Fonseca
Dhiren Fonseca has been a member of our Board of Directors since May 2012. Mr. Fonseca is the Chief Commercial Officer of Expedia, Inc., the world's largest online travel company, where he advises regarding the building and managing of corporate-level supply and commercial relationships between the businesses within the Expedia portfolio and some of the travel industry's most notable supplier brands. He also acts as an advisor to the Chairman and CEO on the strategic initiatives of Expedia and its portfolio of travel brands. Previously, Mr. Fonseca served as the co-President of Expedia's global supply organization, where he led the company's global supply strategy and team, and prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, focusing on corporate strategy and worldwide mergers and acquisitions. During his corporate development tenure, he led the acquisition and integration of 15 companies by Expedia. Prior to Expedia, Mr. Fonseca was a longtime Microsoft employee, helping found Expedia as part of the management team at Microsoft that brought Expedia to life in 1995. Mr. Fonseca studied computer science at the University of Manitoba and did not complete an undergraduate degree.

Thomas Gurnee, Chairman of the Audit Committee and Member of the Compensation Committee
Thomas Gurnee has served as a member of our Board of Directors, our Audit Committee and our Compensation Committee since November 2004. Mr. Gurnee is Chief Financial Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Xinyuan Real Estate (NYSE: XIN), a US-listed real estate company. Previously he was Chief Financial Officer of GEM Services, Inc., a privately held semiconductor manufacturer. His other prior positions include President and Chief Operating Officer of GlobiTech Inc. and Chief Financial Officer of Sohu.com Inc. Prior to joining Sohu, Mr. Gurnee held a number of senior positions with Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., including Vice President for Business Development, President (North America), Chief Operating Officer (Singapore) and Chief Financial Officer (Singapore). Previously, Mr. Gurnee spent 13 years at Schlumberger Ltd. as finance director of various divisions in France, Singapore and the United States. Mr. Gurnee was also previously a member of the Boards of Directors of Sohu and of Longtop Financial Technologies. Mr. Gurnee received a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara.

Dara Khosrowshahi
Dara Khosrowshahi has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June2011. Mr. Khosrowshahi has also served as a director and the Chief Executive Officer of Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE), the world's largest online travel company, since Expedia's spin-off from IAC/InterActiveCorp in August 2005 and as a director of TripAdvisor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIP), the world’s largest travel site, since TripAdvisor’s spin-off from Expedia in December 2011. Prior to the Expedia spin-off in 2005, Mr. Khosrowshahi served in a number of leadership capacities at IAC, including as Chief Executive Officer of IAC Travel, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of IAC, Executive Vice President of Operations and Strategic Planning, and President of USA Networks Interactive, a division of IAC. Mr. Khosrowshahi joined IAC in 1998 as Vice President of Strategic Planning. Prior to joining IAC, Mr. Khosrowshahi served as Vice President at Allen & Company LLC. Mr. Khosrowshahi holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Engineering from Brown University.

Dan Lynn
Dan Lynn has served as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2011, and is CEO of AAE Travel Pte. Ltd., a joint venture between Expedia and AirAsia. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director and Vice President APAC of Expedia, where he led Expedia’s business in the Asia Pacific, including current business and expansion into new markets. Prior to this, Mr. Lynn held a variety of positions at Expedia, including Vice Present of Global Paid Search Marketing, Director of Strategy and Consumer Insights, and Business Development Manager. Before joining Expedia, Mr. Lynn worked in London as an Investment Analyst for Smedvig Capital, and also previously as an analyst for McKinsey & Company. He holds a BA in Economics and Management from Oxford University.

Cyril Ranque
Cyril Ranque has been a member of our Board of Directors since December 2008. Mr. Ranque is Senior Vice President, Global Market Management of Expedia, overseeing Expedia’s relationships with hotel supply partners across the Americas and the EMEA regions. Previously, he manged Expedia's relationships with airline, lodging and rental car supply partners in the Asia Pacific as Vice President, Partner Services Group Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Expedia in 2006, Mr. Ranque was Vice President of Marketing & Distribution for Louvre Hotels, a leading European hotel group. He was also previously a Director in charge of the French Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Practice at AT Kearney, and a CRM consultant at Accenture. Prior to Accenture, Mr. Ranque was a financial analyst with Morgan Stanley in London, and also worked at LVMH in Tokyo. Mr. Ranque holds a Master's degree from Essec Graduate School of Business in Paris.

Michael Scown, Member of the Audit Committee
Michael Scown has been a member of our Board of Directors and our Audit Committee since December 2007. Mr. Scown is the Asia Managing Director, Treasury, for Intel Capital. From 1999 to 2006 he served as Intel Capital's Asia Regional Counsel. Before joining Intel he practiced law as an associate and partner with Russin & Vecchi in the firm's San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam offices and worked in hotel development as Asia Assistant Regional Counsel for Marriott International, Inc. Prior to commencing his legal practice, Mr. Scown served as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley (A.B.), the University of San FranciscoSchool of Law (J.D.) as well as a member of the California Bar.

Johan Svanstrom, Member of the Compensation Committee
Johan Svanstrom has served as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2006 and our Compensation Committee since April 2012. Mr. Svanstrom is Managing Director (Asia Pacific) of Hotels.com, a division of Expedia, in which he is responsible for leading the Hotels.com business across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Expedia, Mr. Svanstrom was in charge of the Digital Innovations Group at McDonald's Corporation for three years. Prior to that, Mr. Svanstrom was co-founder and CEO of Freefund, a company providing online grant search capabilities for university students in four different European countries. From 1999 to 2002 Mr. Svanstrom served as Vice President of Business Development at Glocalnet, a voice-over-IP telecom company, which he helped take public on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Mr. Svanstrom holds a BA in Business Administration and an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Xiaoguang Wu
Xiaoguang Wu has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June2011. Mr. Wu is Senior Executive Vice President of Internet Business of Tencent Holdings Limited (SEHK:00700). Mr. Wu joined Tencent in 1999, led the development and product planning for Tencent's core product, the QQ IM client software and has served as the Project Manager for the research and development team of QQ, General Manager for IM product and the General Manager for the internet business division. Currently, he is in charge of the Company's various internet services including community, community value-added services and e-commerce. Mr. Wu has extensive experience in product research and development, product planning, product operation and marketing of internet businesses. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Weather Dynamics from Nanjing University and an EMBA from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).