About Lei Jun Lei Jun was born in Xiantao City, Hubei Province on December 16, 1969. In 1991, Lei Jun graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Wuhan University. In early 1992, Lei Jun joined Kingsoft and became the manager of Beijing Development Department in August of the same year. In 1994, Lei Jun became the general manager of Beijing Kingsoft Software Co., Ltd. In 1998, after Lenovo invested in him, Lei Jun became the general manager of Beijing Kingsoft Software Co., Ltd., responsible for the management, R&D, product sales and market strategy planning of the entire company.

In 2000, he founded Joyo.com and Lei Jun became the chairman. At the end of the same year, after Kingsoft was reorganized into a joint-stock company, Lei Jun became the president of Zhuhai Kingsoft Software Co., Ltd. In 1999 and 2000, Lei Jun won the honor of the top ten IT figures for two consecutive years. At the end of 2000, Lei Jun was hired as a consultant to the Beijing Municipal Government. In 2001, Lei Jun was elected as the vice president of Beijing Software Industry Association. In August 2002, Lei Jun was elected as the first ten outstanding young entrepreneurs in Beijing. In 2003, Lei Jun was elected as an outstanding entrepreneur in Zhongguancun. In 2004, Joyo.com was sold to Amazon for US$75 million. In the same year, Lei Jun was elected as one of the top ten outstanding young people in China's software industry. In 2007, Lei Jun led Kingsoft to successfully go public in Hong Kong.