Founder, President and CEO of iKang Healthcare Group
Mr. Lee Ligang Zhang has been a successful serial entrepreneur and business executive since he dropped out from graduate school at Harvard University in 1998, bringing his knowledge and acumen to a number of companies in his professional career that range from healthcare to the Internet, and has built two companies which went public on NASDAQ.
Mr. Zhang founded iKang Healthcare Group, Inc. (“iKang”) in 2004, successfully merging healthcare delivery system with a versatile online platform to build a preventative healthcare service network that spanned the entire country. This “anytime, anywhere” network was to become the blueprint for the industry that transformed how individuals accessed healthcare services in China.
Since its inception, Mr. Zhang has been serving as iKang’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. iKang was listed on the NASDAQ in April 2014 and is a leader in China’s fast growing middle to high end private preventive healthcare services market.
Prior to iKang, Mr. Zhang was a co-founder of eLong.com and served as CEO from 1999 to 2003. eLong.com was then the second largest online travel service company and listed on the NASDAQ in October 2004. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Zhang served as head of product development at Sohu.com, a leading NASDAQ-listed Chinese Internet portal. Mr. Zhang founded the journal Harvard China Review in 1997 and co-founded the Harvard China Forum in 1998 while studying at Harvard University.
Mr. Zhang is currently also a board member of MSH HK Limited, which operates the largest high end private health insurance service platform in China. Mr. Zhang serves as Vice President of Chinese Physicians Group Association with Chinese Non-government Medical Institute Association, Vice President of Beijing Health Management Association, and Vice President of the Harvard Club of Beijing as well Vice President of Shanghai Alumni Association at Fudan University. Mr. Zhang was named as EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 National Life Sciences Award Winner in China.
Mr. Zhang studied biology as an undergraduate student at Fudan University in China, and went on to receive a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Concordia College in the US before obtaining a master’s degree in genetics from Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Sciences.