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Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. one of China's leading wireless baseband chipset providers, has announced that David S. Wu has joined the company as CFO, effective June 8, 2009.

Wu has 15 years of China financial and operational management experience. As managing director of the US Fund, he guided the China Value Add delivery for CITIC Capital, the private equity arm of China's largest financial conglomerate CITIC Group. As CFO/GM, Wu successfully introduced continuous improvement tools into China using NYSE listed Danaher's business system.

He delivered the first profitable investment in China for AlliedSignal (now Honeywell). Working with IBM, Motorola and others, his team delivered the first WAP based GPS searchable yellow page content using cell phones in Shanghai and Beijing. Wu has documented SOX compliant internal controls for multi-billion dollar processes in the US, and was a corporate finance manager/assistant controller for BFGoodrich. He started his career as an auditor for Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) in Chicago.

Wu received a BSE degree, cum laude, from Princeton University, a MSE degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MBA from The Wharton School of Finance. He passed the Certified Forensic Accountant and Certified Management Accountant examinations, and is a CPA from the States of Virginia and Illinois.
 

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