Gridsum Holding Inc. announced the appointment of two new independent directors, Mr. Dannis Cheuk Yin Lee and Mr. Feng Lu, to the Company's board of directors, effective from April 1, 2019. Mr. Lee will serve as the chair of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee of the Board, and Mr. Lu will serve as a member of the audit committee and the chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee of the Board. Mr. Lee brings to Gridsum more than 25 years of experience in accounting, management and public company board experience. He is managing director of DLK Advisory Limited which he joined in 2010. Mr. Lee held management positions, including as the company's executive director, chief financial controller and director of operations, at AMVIG Holdings Limited from 2001 to 2010. Mr. Lu has been a professor of the School of Government at Peking University since 2003. Prior to that, Mr. Lu had been an associate professor of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University from 1999 to 2003. Since 2008, Mr. Lu has served on the board of directors of Chery Automobile Co. Ltd. Mr. Lee and Mr. Lu replace Thomas A Melcher and Peter Andrew Schloss who resigned from the Board on March 30, 2019 and April 1, 2019, respectively.