Shuai Feng appointed as EHang’s Chief Technology Officer as Company Enters New Phase of Commercialisation

EHang has appoint­ed Shuai Feng as the com­pa­ny’s Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer, with the com­pa­ny say­ing his appoint­ment rep­re­sents a key mile­stone in its tech­nol­o­gy strat­e­gy.

Build­ing on the sol­id foun­da­tion estab­lished through years of direct lead­er­ship over tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment by the Company’s Founder, Chair­man, and Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer Mr. Huazhi Hu, EHang is advanc­ing its tech­nol­o­gy man­age­ment frame­work toward sys­tem­at­ic inno­va­tion and indus­tri­al imple­men­ta­tion.

Mr. Feng joined EHang in July 2014 as a core mem­ber of the found­ing team. Under Mr. Hu’s strate­gic guid­ance and tech­ni­cal phi­los­o­phy, he has played a crit­i­cal role in and led the devel­op­ment of, mul­ti­ple pilot­less human-car­ry­ing eVTOL prod­ucts, includ­ing the EH184, the EH216‑S, and the VT35, as well as the GD series aer­i­al for­ma­tion UAVs.

In addi­tion, as the Com­pa­ny has entered a new phase of com­mer­cial­iza­tion, and in align­ment with Mr. Hu’s full-indus­try-chain inte­gra­tion strat­e­gy, Mr. Feng has in recent years tak­en on key respon­si­bil­i­ties in build­ing EHang’s pro­cure­ment and sup­ply chain man­age­ment sys­tems.

By strength­en­ing upstream and down­stream coor­di­na­tion, enhanc­ing pro­duc­ti­za­tion effi­cien­cy, and advanc­ing deep indus­try-chain inte­gra­tion and region­al ecosys­tem devel­op­ment, he has sig­nif­i­cant­ly enhanced EHang’s capa­bil­i­ties for key com­po­nents R&D and scaled man­u­fac­tur­ing. Cur­rent­ly, Mr. Feng also serves as the Company’s Com­pli­ance Offi­cer, con­tin­u­ous­ly uphold­ing EHang’s devel­op­ment prin­ci­ples of “safe­ty, com­pli­ance, inno­va­tion, and sus­tain­abil­i­ty” through his cross-func­tion­al lead­er­ship roles.

Shuai Feng said: “I have wit­nessed EHang’s jour­ney from ear­ly inno­va­tion to com­mer­cial deploy­ment under Mr. Hu’s tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven strat­e­gy, and have gained a deep under­stand­ing of the Company’s core tech­ni­cal phi­los­o­phy and long-term vision.

“Look­ing ahead, I will con­tin­ue to take Mr. Hu’s tech­nol­o­gy prin­ci­ples as my guide, strict­ly adhere to the Company’s estab­lished tech­nol­o­gy strat­e­gy, and work close­ly with the team to inte­grate tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment with man­u­fac­tur­ing and qual­i­ty con­trol.

He added: “I am com­mit­ted to improv­ing exe­cu­tion and pro­duc­tion effi­cien­cy, fur­ther sup­port­ing the Company’s con­tin­ued tech­nol­o­gy inno­va­tion and indus­tri­al imple­men­ta­tion with a strong sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty.”

Since the Company’s incep­tion, Mr. Hu has per­son­al­ly led EHang’s core tech­nol­o­gy devel­op­ment with a clear tech­ni­cal vision and firm strate­gic direc­tion, com­pre­hen­sive­ly over­see­ing the inte­grat­ed ini­tia­tives across tech­nol­o­gy R&D, pro­duc­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing, qual­i­ty sys­tems and sup­ply chain inte­gra­tion.

Focus­ing on the Company’s core AAM strat­e­gy, he has guid­ed the team through mul­ti­ple break­throughs in key unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cle (“UAV”) and elec­tric ver­ti­cal take-off and land­ing (“eVTOL”) air­craft tech­nolo­gies and cer­ti­fi­ca­tions, lay­ing a strong tech­no­log­i­cal foun­da­tion and estab­lish­ing EHang’s indus­try-lead­ing posi­tion.

Huazhi Hu added: “Since the ear­ly days of the Com­pa­ny, Mr. Feng has worked close­ly under my direct lead­er­ship and has been deeply involved in the buildup of EHang’s tech­nol­o­gy sys­tem. He has con­sis­tent­ly upheld our core tech­nol­o­gy phi­los­o­phy and has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions by pre­cise­ly exe­cut­ing our strate­gic direc­tion across crit­i­cal stages across R&D, man­u­fac­tur­ing, and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

“As EHang enters a new phase of com­mer­cial oper­a­tions and glob­al expan­sion, appoint­ing Mr. Feng’s as CTO is a fur­ther step to ensure con­ti­nu­ity of our core tech­nol­o­gy strat­e­gy and tal­ent devel­op­ment phi­los­o­phy. Under my over­all direc­tion and guid­ance, he will fur­ther inte­grate tech­nol­o­gy, pro­duc­tion, and sup­ply chain resources, ensure strate­gic align­ment and dis­ci­plined exe­cu­tion, and sup­port­ing EHang’s long-term vision of build­ing safe, scal­able, and sus­tain­able AAM solu­tions.”

Mr. Feng grad­u­at­ed from Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty in Automa­tion major, where he spe­cial­ized UAV tech­nol­o­gy and was award­ed the Grand Prize in the University’s pres­ti­gious 29th “Chal­lenge Cup” com­pe­ti­tion, among oth­er hon­ors.

He cur­rent­ly serves as Deputy Direc­tor of the Tsinghua-EHang Joint Research Insti­tute for Low-Alti­tude Avi­a­tion Tech­nol­o­gy, Deputy Sec­re­tar y‑General of the Aero­space, Avi­a­tion, and Smart Man­u­fac­tur­ing Com­mit­tee of the Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty Guangzhou Alum­ni Asso­ci­a­tion, and Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the Tsinghua Uni­ver­si­ty Future Robot­ics Inter­est Group.