【CXO风采】腾讯公司总裁刘炽平

一、人物简介

刘炽平，男，汉族，中国香港人，1973年生于北京市。美国密西根大学电子工程专业理学学士，斯坦福大学电子工程理学硕士，西北大学工商管理硕士。现任腾讯公司总裁。

二、人物经历

1、早期经历

刘炽平1973年在北京出生，家里人都是中国香港人，读书时期的他十分勤奋刻苦，25岁时已经拥有美国密歇根大学电子工程学士学位、斯坦福大学和西北大学两个硕士学位。

1998年，毕业后的刘炽平曾任麦肯锡的管理顾问，后又成为高盛亚洲投资银行部电信、媒体与科技行业组的首席运营官。刘炽平在高盛期间，一次复杂的重组项目让他真正学习到了东西。当时在国内投资界名噪一时的广东粤海集团重组，高盛足足操作了两年，中间涉及到100多家债权银行、400多家公司。刘每天工作都到凌晨两三点，两年的年项目感觉做了四年。但最终完成后，刘也对企业的管理、经营、执行几乎所有流程都都全面了解，“做完这个项目，基本上再做任何项目都觉得容易了。”他认为，好企业20%是因为策略上的成功，80%的因素在于企业的执行能力。因此他萌生了投身企业，从一个给企业提供战略意见的第三方身份，成为战略执行者的想法。

2、加入腾讯

2004年，机会终于到来。高盛操作腾讯上市项目，刘炽平表现出的才华让马化腾极为欣赏，而刘炽平也在操刀腾讯IPO中感受到这家中国公司的优秀。刘炽平受邀出任腾讯首席战略投资官，负责腾讯战略、投资、并购和投资者关系。

刘炽平加入之前的腾讯很少采用外部投资手段，都是通过投资内部研发等部门来进行，什么热门做什么，也使得腾讯在游戏、门户、互联网增值服务等领域快速发展，成就了之后腾讯的黄金五年。

这种内生性增长也让马化腾看到隐忧：尽管按用户规模、产品和盈利能力计算，腾讯仍是中国最大的互联网公司，但其增长已明显放缓：游戏玩不过网易、广告拼不过百度、SP也成最后晚餐。腾讯下一步如何继续保持高增长成为问题。

这时马化腾把眼光投向了刘炽平，当时刘炽平供职高盛，此前还在麦肯锡公司工作过。刘炽平在首次公开招股发售、兼并与收购以及管理咨询等方面有十多年的经验，在高盛操作腾讯上市项目中，马刘二人结下友谊。最终，刘炽平甘愿放弃千万年薪，跟着马化腾“搵食”，逐渐接替马化腾，全面负责公司的业务管理。

2005年加盟腾讯公司，出任本公司首席战略投资官，负责公司战略、投资、并购和投资者关系。

2006年2月荣任腾讯公司总裁，协助董事会主席兼首席执行官马化腾先生负责公司的日常管理和运营。

2007年3月，被任命为执行董事。

2011年7月28日，任金山软件非执行董事。

2012年5月24日 腾讯宣布将为独立运营的腾讯电商控股公司投入10亿美元，同时，腾讯还宣布，集团总裁刘炽平出任腾讯电商控股公司董事长。

2021年12月23日，京东集团公告，刘炽平已从公司董事会辞任，并立即生效。

2022年4月，腾讯总裁刘炽平辞任滴滴董事职务。

2022年5月27日，刘炽平辞去腾讯音乐董事一职。

2022年8月，刘炽平辞去金山软件公司非执行董事及提名委员会成员职务。

2022年11月16日，美团发布公告称，由于腾讯对本公司的持股拟发生变化，刘炽平已辞任非执行董事。

2023年3月22日，腾讯控股在港交所发布公告称，执行董事刘炽平先生将于二零二三年股东周年大会上轮值退任并将不会膺选连任。于二零二三年股东周年大会结束后，刘先生将不再为董事，惟将继续担任公司总裁兼投资委员会主席。

三、人物语录

“好企业20%是因为策略上的成功，80%的因素在于企业的执行能力。”

“我们不是去争一块’饼‘，而是去挖掘怎样才能有更大的一块‘饼’。”

“作为一个职业经理人，我想的是怎么把公司治理好，最终的成绩是我看重的，而其他的诸如名气什么的我并不在乎。”

“我们清醒的认识到我们的互联网行业还是处于小康阶段，刚刚踏出万里长征第一步，还有很长的路要走，在这个长跑过程当中，我想跟大家分享三个价值。第一关注用户价值，第二关注合作价值，第三关注社会价值。”

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Profile

Liu Chiping, male, Han nationality, Hong Kong, China, born in Beijing in 1973. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University. He is currently President of Tencent.

Character experience

Early experience

Born in Beijing in 1973 to children from Hong Kong, Lau worked hard as a schoolboy. By the age of 25, he had earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and two master’s degrees from Stanford and Northwestern Universities.

After graduating in 1998, Mr Lau worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and then became chief operating officer of the telecoms, media and technology group at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking in Asia. It was during his time at Goldman that Mr Lau learned his lesson in a complex restructuring project. It took Goldman Sachs two years to restructure Guangdong Yuehai Group, a well-known investment company in China, involving more than 100 creditor banks and 400 companies.

Liu works until two or three in the morning every day. It feels like four years to do a two-year annual project. However, after the final completion of the project, Liu also had a comprehensive understanding of almost all the processes of management, operation and execution of the enterprise. “After the completion of this project, basically any project will be easier.” He believes that a good company is 20 percent strategic success and 80 percent execution. So he wanted to go from being a third party who gave strategic advice to being a strategy executor.

Join Tencent

In 2004, the opportunity finally came. Ma was impressed by Lau’s talent as Goldman Sachs worked on Tencent’s IPO, and Lau felt the Chinese company’s brilliance as he worked on its IPO. Mr Lau was invited to become Tencent’s chief strategic investment officer, responsible for strategy, investments, mergers and acquisitions and investor relations.

Before Martin Lau joined Tencent, it seldom used external investment means, instead, it invested in internal R&D departments and other departments. Whatever was popular, it did what it wanted, which also enabled Tencent to develop rapidly in game, portal, Internet value-added services and other fields, thus achieving the golden five years of Tencent.

This organic growth also makes Ma Huatong concerned:

although Tencent is still China’s largest Internet company by user size, products and profitability, its growth has slowed significantly: NetEase is no match for games, Baidu is no match for advertising, and SP is the last supper. Tencent next how to continue to maintain high growth becomes the question.

That’s when Ma set his sights on Martin Lau, who was at Goldman Sachs and had previously worked at McKinsey & Company. Mr Lau has more than a decade of experience in initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and management consulting, and the two struck up a friendship while Goldman was working on Tencent’s listing. In the end, Lau was willing to give up his annual salary for the “findfindfood” of Ma Huateng, and gradually took over from Ma Huateng, taking overall charge of the company’s business management.

In 2005, he joined Tencent as its Chief Strategic Investment Officer, responsible for corporate strategy, investments, mergers and acquisitions, and investor relations.

Mr. Ma Huateng, Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Tencent, was appointed President of Tencent in February 2006 and assisted in the daily management and operation of the company.

He was appointed Executive Director in March 2007.

He has been a non-executive director of Kingsoft since July 28 2011.

On May 24, 2012, Tencent announced that it would invest 1 billion US dollars into the independent Tencent E-commerce Holding Company. Meanwhile, it also announced that Martin Lau, President of Tencent Group, would become the chairman of Tencent E-commerce Holding Company.

On December 23, 2021, Jingdong Group announced that Martin Lau had resigned from the Company’s board of directors with immediate effect.

In April 2022, Martin Lau, president of Tencent, resigned as Didi’s director.

Martin Lau resigned as director of Tencent Music on May 27, 2022.

Martin Lau resigned as a non-executive director of Kingsoft and as a member of the nominating Committee in August 2022.

On November 16, 2022, Meituan announced that Martin Lau had resigned as a non-executive director of Meituan due to a proposed change in Tencent’s shareholding in the company.

On 22 March 2023, Tencent announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that Mr. Martin Lau, Executive Director of Tencent Holdings, would retire from the company on the occasion of the 2023 Annual General Meeting and would not retire for reappointment. Mr. Lau will cease to be a director after the 2023 Annual General Meeting. But will continue to serve as President of the Company and Chairman of the Investment Committee.

Quotations

“A good company is 20 percent strategic success and 80 percent execution.”

“We’re not fighting for a piece of pie, but finding out how to have a bigger piece of pie.”

“As a professional manager, I think about how to run the company well. The final results are what I value, but other things like fame are not what I care about.”

“We are clearly aware that our Internet industry is still at a well-off stage. We have just taken the first step of a long march and there is still a long way to go. During this long journey, I would like to share three values with you. The first is user value, the second is partnership value, and the third is social value.”

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