Chayora Announces Appointment of Executive Vice President, Network & Strategy

Chayora, the Hong Kong-based data centre infrastructure company, announces ahead of PTC’20 that it has appointed Ms. Yali Z. Liu as Executive Vice President, Network & Strategy.

Ms. Yali Z. Liu has joined Chayora effective January 1st 2020 as Executive Vice President responsible for network connectivity products and solutions, and a member of the Management Board of Chayora.

Yali has over 15 years of strategic and operational leadership experience in global internet, cloud and data centre development, driving transformation supporting business and customer demands worldwide. Yali was previously Executive Director at Verizon, responsible for global network planning, engineering and network product development, leading large geographically dispersed global teams to provide development and operational support for innovative product portfolios while aligning technology strategy with business and financial objectives.  Until recently Yali was Vice President of ChinaCache, responsible for global business development. She was instrumental in driving carrier-neutral data centre and building the first internet exchange (CHN-IX) in mainland China for more effective regional connectivity among cloud and data service providers and ISPs.

Oliver Jones, CEO, Chayora said “We are absolutely delighted that Yali is joining the expanding Chayora Management team and we are confident that as a subject matter expert she will bring her many years of network experience to strengthen the Chayora customer offering.”

Yali Liu commented “I am very excited to join Chayora and I look forward to working with the team and partners to deliver network and connectivity at our data centre that caters to international demands/ best practice with technically, operationally and commercially optimized solutions for China.”

Yali holds B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University, MBA from University of Dallas, and M.S. in Computer Sciences from University of Texas in Dallas. Yali has a US patent in Internet technology, and is an advisory board member of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC).