During the period between April 1983 and September 2008, Mr. Cheng served various roles in IBM China/Hong Kong Limited, a multinational technology and consulting corporation, and he held the position of GCG channel director in the general management office before he left such company. From October 2008 to September 2011, Mr. Cheng worked as the vice president and general manager of Avnet Partner Solutions, greater China region, a distributor of IT services. He has been an independent non-executive director of Microware Group Limited (HK stock code: 01985) from 14 February 2017. Mr. Cheng received a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in the United States in August 1980 and a master’s degree in business administration from Northern Michigan University in the United States in August 1982.