Yu Yingtao, a PhD and senior economist, is the executive vice president of Tsinghua Unigroup president and CEO of New H3C Group.

Yu has rich experience spanning both governmental and private sectors. He has enjoyed a long and fruitful career at one of China's top three telecommunication operators, China Unicom. He served as the general manager and Party secretary of China Unicom's Yantai Branch. Since then, he has held the positions of deputy general manager of Sales and Marketing Department and general manager of the Terminal Management Center at China Unicom, and general manager and Party secretary of VSENS. He was also the general manager of China Unicom's Sales Department and the general manger and Party Secretary of China Unicom Zhejiang Branch.

In 2003, Yu won a second prize of National Science and Technology Award for the invention of the first dual SIM and dual standby mobile phone in the world. He was also granted a special allowance of the State Council for the invention. In 2005, Yu launched the operator-customized mobile phone sales model, laying the foundation for the basic sales model for China's three telecommunication operators.

In 2009, on behalf of China Unicom, Yu negotiated with Apple Inc. and became the first to introduce the iPhone to China, with sales volume surpassing 50 billion yuan annually.

In 2011, he proposed the concept of newly-defined 1,000-yuan smart phones. As a result, two domestic smart phones, ZTE V880 and Lenovo A60, achieved sales volumes of four million units each, putting Chinese smart phone development ahead of the global industry for two years.