Yudong Tan

Yudong leads the engineering, product, operations and customer service teams at China’s largest OTA, Ctrip.com International, based in Shanghai.

Yudong was the CTO of the Ctrip Flight Business Group from January 2016 to February 2019 before being promoted to COO of Ctrip Flight. Prior to returning to China and joining Ctrip in 2014, Yudong held numerous senior positions in technology companies in the Silicon Valley, such as Microsoft, Yelp and Nvidia for nearly 10 years.

Yudong received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from George Institute of Technology in the US in 2005. He currently lives and work from Ctrip Group’s global headquarters in Shanghai. The family of Ctrip Group’s family of travel brands mainly includes: CTrip, the largest OTA in terms of GMV and best-known travel brand in China; Qunar, a leading online travel agency and metasearch in China; Trip.com, an OTA for global consumers; Skyscanner, a leading global travel search site. Since its inception in 1999, Ctrip group has experienced substantial growth and become one of the largest travel service providers in the world.