Kathleen Chien joined 51job in 1999 and is Chief Financial Officer and a Senior Vice President. Prior to joining 51job, Ms. Chien worked in the management consulting and financial services industries. During her three-year tenure at Bain & Company, Ms. Chien consulted a number of companies on strategic and marketing issues, including entry into the Chinese market and achieving cost and operational efficiencies. In two years at Capital Securities Corp., a leading investment bank in Taiwan, Ms. Chien completed a number of equity and equity-linked transactions, including the first ever Swiss-franc convertible bond issuance out of Taiwan. Ms. Chien received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California , Berkeley .
