Jack Xu is a corporate vice president at Cisco, where he is currently responsible for Cisco unified communications product portfolios. Prior to joining Cisco, Jack served as eBay's vice president of engineering & research and was an eBay Fellow. During his tenure at eBay, Jack created the company's global development strategy, led the development of its proprietary search and listings technology, and oversaw eBay Research lab, which was responsible for many cutting edge innovations. He also played a pivotal role in the expansion of eBay operations in Asia, and was the founding chairman of eBay Global Development Center in China. Prior to that, Jack was the Chief Technology Officer and member of CEO office at Netease (Nasdaq: NTES), where he was responsible for its technology, operations, marketing, research and product development. From 1996 to 2000, he held a senior management position at Excite.
Jack graduated from Sun Yat-Sen University with BA and MS degrees. While working towards his PhD at University of California at Berkeley, he was a research associate at Berkeley. Jack currently holds a visiting professorship in Software Engineering, Communications, and Information Management at Sun Yat-Sen University. In additional, he plays an active role in the community as the vice president (2007-2008) of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, a premier non-profit organization for promoting entrepreneurship.