Jane Jie Sun (; born 1969/1970) is a Chinese businesswoman who has been serving as chief executive officer of

Trip.com Group Trip.com Group Limited (, formerly Ctrip.com International) is a Chinese multinational online travel company that provides services including accommodation reservation, transportation ticketing, packaged tours and corporate travel management. Fo ...

since November 2016.

Early life

Sun completed her first two years of undergraduate studies at

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. She transferred to the

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and received a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Florida upon her graduation. She later returned to Peking University and completed a master's degree in law from the university's

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Career

Sun worked for

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as an audit manager in

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, California, for five years. Sun was the head of the SEC and external reporting division of Applied Materials from 1997 to 2005. Sun joined Ctrip (now known as the Trip.com Group) in 2005 as CFO, rising to COO in May 2012, and CEO in November 2016, when she succeeded the company's founder

James Liang James Jianzhang Liang (; born December 1969) is a Chinese businessman, and the executive chairman, former CEO, and co-founder of Trip.com Group (formerly Ctrip), a provider of travel services including accommodation reservation, transportation ...

. In her role at Ctrip, she has been credited for her focus on

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within the company, with half of Ctrip's employees being women.

Personal life

In 1995, Sun married John Wu (), one of

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's earliest employees and later, CTO of

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. They have two children, and live in

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. Wu runs his own investment company, FengHe Fund Management.

References

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