FreeWheel Names Hong Cai as General Manager of its Beijing Office and VP of Engineering
October 11 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
FreeWheel, A Comcast Company that provides global technology
solutions for the future of television advertising, today announced
that it has appointed Hong Cai as general manager of the company’s
Beijing office and vice president of engineering. He will be based
in Beijing and report to Yuling Ma, who was named chief technology
officer of FreeWheel in February.
Cai will be responsible for leading, building and mentoring
FreeWheel’s Beijing engineering team and partnering with leadership
to drive innovation and strategies that further FreeWheel’s
endeavours to help connect buyers and sellers across the TV
ecosystem. He will also collaborate across product, operations,
revenue and additional disciplines to develop and deliver
differentiated advertising products and media solutions and support
FreeWheel’s clients during this critical time in the rapidly
evolving media landscape.
“Cai’s commitment to engineering excellence, innate curiosity
and knack for developing talent will play a critical role in
driving technology innovation and product delivery across
FreeWheel,” said Ma. “He has a strong technical background with
expertise in data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, all
strategic areas of focus on FreeWheel’s roadmap. I am confident his
leadership in technical development will accelerate the company’s
ability to transform the way TV and premium video advertising is
bought and sold in today’s technology-driven advertising
industry.”
A 23-year technology industry veteran, Cai has held global
engineering leadership roles at both small startups and established
corporations, with extensive experience in cloud computing and
technical evaluation as well as people management and building
collaborative partnerships.
He joins FreeWheel from Data Orient, Inc., an AI-driven big data
analytics startup in Beijing, where he served as chief technology
officer and chief scientist. Prior to Data Orient, Inc., Cai was at
Datayes, a FinTech company in Shanghai, as chief technology officer
and vice president of engineering and ZTE TX in the United States,
as chief technology officer of cloud computing. He also spent
nearly 15 years at IBM across three different organizations,
including IBM’s research group in China, IBM’s software development
center in China, and IBM’s headquarters in New York, where he
worked with senior technical and business leaders to define
technology trends for the company’s future.
Cai earned a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering and PhD in
Artificial Intelligence from Tsinghua University, the number one
ranked university in China. In addition, he has authored
approximately 50 papers, filed tens of patents and co-authored a
book titled “Services Computing.”
About FreeWheel FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, empowers
all segments of The New TV Ecosystem. We are structured to provide
the full breadth of solutions the advertising industry needs to
achieve their goals. We provide the technology, data enablement and
convergent marketplaces required to ensure buyers and sellers can
transact across all screens, across all data types, and all sales
channels, in order to ensure the ultimate goal – results for
marketers.
With offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris,
Beijing, and across the globe, FreeWheel, A Comcast Company, stands
to advocate for the entire industry through the FreeWheel Council
for Premium Video. For more information, please visit
freewheel.com, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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