Cheetah Mobile Inc. named Charles Fan as its new Chief Technology Officer. Charles will lead the global R&D activities for the company. Based out of Silicon Valley, Charles will also lead the creation of a major presence of Cheetah Mobile in the U.S Cheetah Mobile has a goal of growing the Silicon Valley office into its second worldwide headquarters alongside Beijing.

Charles joins Cheetah Mobile from VMware, where he served as Senior Vice President leading its storage and big data businesses.