LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. announced that its board of directors has appointed Mr. Zhanwen Qiao as the company?s Chief Risk Officer, effective on Dec. 4, 2023. Mr. Zhanwen Qiao has over a decade of experience as a senior leader in risk management space at a top-tier consumer finance company in China.

Prior to joining Lexin, Mr. Qiao served as a senior director at Ant Group and deputy general manager of Chongqing Ant Consumer Finance, where he joined in April 2012, responsible for risk management for Chongqing Ant Consumer Finance. Mr. Qiao has deeply involved in the entire process of building and iterating Ant Group's consumer credit risk management system, with his extensive experience in building risk management teams, innovating risk management technologies, and managing consumer credit risks. In 2012, Mr. Qiao started to be responsible for quantitative risk management of Taobao credit loans.

Since 2015, he had assumed the responsibilities of risk management of consumer credit businesses such as Huabei and Jiebei products. He was appointed as Deputy General Manager of Chongqing Ant Consumer Finance Co. Ltd. in 2022, supervising the overall risk management for Ant Consumer Finance in Chongqing.

Mr. Qiao received his bachelor's degree in computer science and technology from Zhengzhou University of Light Industry in 2008 and his master?s degree in statistics from Zhejiang Gongshang University in 2011.