Mr. PIPKIN Chester JohnMr. PIPKIN Chester John, aged 62, was appointed as our executive Director with effect from April 1, 2019. He is currently the Executive Chairman of Belkin, subsidiary of the Company, in charge of the Group’s smart home and smart accessories businesses. Mr. Pipkin founded Belkin in 1983 and had been responsible for the strategy and operations of Belkin as its Chief Executive Officer until January 2021.
Mr. Pipkin attended the University of California, Los Angeles (“UCLA”), in 1978 and 1979. Mr. Pipkin has been listed as one of the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal since 2016 until moving from the Los Angeles area in 2020. He served on the UCLA History Advisory Committee from 2011 to 2020. Mr. Pipkin was inducted into the Dealerscope Magazine Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame in 2006. He was a regional recipient of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 1996. He has served as a board member for YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles since 2008 and served as a board member and board chairman for the California YMCA Model Legislature and Court from 1980 to 2000. He was also a founding board member and the founding board chairman for both Da Vinci Schools from 2008 to 2019 and RISE high schools from 2017 to 2019.
