UTStarcom announced the appointments of Ms. Lingrong Lu as Chief Technology Officer and Ms. Ellen (Yinghua) Chen as Chief Human Resources Officer, effective September 1st, 2022. Dr. Lingrong Lu previously served as Vice President of R&D of the Company. Lingrong has more than twenty years of telecommunication industry experience.

Since joining UTStarcom in 2002, she held various management roles in R&D system engineering and product management in NGN/IMS Core Network, Optical Transport and IPTV product lines; and Senior Consultant in CTO office. After two years away taking role of SDN/NFV Marketing Expert in Huawei Technologies, she rejoined the company in September 2016 to manage the ONS R&D Department. In her earlier experience from 1999 to 2002, she worked for Lucent Technologies (acquired by Nokia) in its Singapore CDMA GTS and Shenzhen ONS R&D Center.

Lingrong graduated from Zhejiang University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, and received a Doctoral Degree from the same university in 2014. Ms. Ellen Chen served as Vice President of Global HR and Administration since January 2015. Ellen has more than twenty years of management experience in HR and Administration.

Since joining UTStarcom in 2005, she took various HR and Administration management roles, including the functions of HRBP, Compensation & Benefit, Recruitment and People Development, etc. Before joining UTStarcom, Ellen served as Director of HRA at Zhong Li Telecommunication & Technology Group and held various management positions at Jiale Software and Swiss Band Automatic System Engineering Co. Ltd., during which she managed functions within HR, Administration, IT, Marketing and Finance.

Ellen received a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai University in 1993, and holds the qualification certifications of Human Resources Professional (HRP) and Engineer.