Vipshop Appoints Vice President of Technology

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Mar 25, 2014, 04:01 ET

GUANGZHOU, China, March 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS), China's leading online discount retailer for brands ("Vipshop" or the "Company"), today announced the appointment of Mr. Haidong Jiang, as the Vice President of Technology of Vipshop, and Chief Technology Officer of Lefeng.com, Vipshop's majority-owned online retailer of cosmetics and fashion products, effective immediately.

Mr. Jiang brings with him a wealth of operational experience working in China's internet industry, helping major Chinese and global e-commerce companies in the fields of logistic systems planning and technology development. Prior to joining Vipshop, Mr. Jiang served as CTO of Ovation Entertainment Limited, where he was responsible for overseeing core e-commerce technology development, logistics systems and customer-service system. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Jiang served as vice president of logistics and technology of JD.com. Prior to joining JD.com, Mr. Jiang worked at Amazon.com, leading the technical team to implement Amazon's system migration to China. Mr. Jiang received his bachelor's degree in Signal and Information Process from Beijing Jiaotong University in China.

Mr. Eric Shen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated, "We are delighted to welcome Haidong to our team. His experience with logistic systems implementation in the e-commerce industry will be a tremendous asset for Vipshop as we build out our core logistics operation. Adding such a seasoned operational executive to our team underscores Vipshop's dedication to further developing and refining our logistics and service capabilities, in an effort to support the ongoing expansion of our product offering and attraction of new customers."

About Vipshop Holdings Limited

Vipshop Holdings Limited is China's leading online discount retailer for brands. Vipshop offers high quality and popular branded products to consumers throughout China at a significant discount to retail prices. Since it was founded in August 2008, the Company has rapidly built a sizeable and growing base of customers and brand partners. For more information, please visit http://www.vip.com.

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