Top-manager, who led the expansion of American Internet Corporation Google in China, leaving the company to start their own business.

Kai Fu Lee: «I have always supported the staff who left the company to pursue his own business».

Kai Fu Lee Google Greater China leave the post of President of a subsidiary of Google Greater China in mid-September. What will his company did not specify.

Mr. Lee was hired by Google in 2004. He was responsible for developing new Internet services designed to help the search giant to increase the share of the Chinese market dominated by local company Baidu . The share of Google and in fact increased, but Baidu is still far ahead: it owns 61.6% of search traffic, while Google has 29.1% (according to Analysys International ).

Duties Kai Fu-Lee to be divided between two officers. Google Greater China, Boon Lock Yeo, director of the Shanghai office of engineering Google, will assume the technical issues, and John Liu, who heads the sales department Google Greater China, will the business and administrative side.

Kai Fu-Lee was working in a corporation Microsoft the technology web search MSN Search Engine and software Windows Desktop Search . Google’s conversion offered him $ 10 million bonus. Microsoft promptly sued Kai Fu Lee and Google, claiming that by doing so he violated an agreement with a former employer, which has no right to engage in similar activities during the year after the dismissal. Microsoft also accused Kai Fu-Lee to the disclosure of trade secrets.

Google answered the counterclaim, but the corporation will soon come to an agreement on terms which have not been made public.