NORTH CANTON, Ohio — Diebold Inc. has announced that Mei-Wei Cheng was elected to its board of directors, effective August 1.
Cheng, 59, recently retired from Ford Motor Company as group vice president and Ford Motor China executive chairman. From 1999 to 2008, he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Ford Motor China.
Prior to joining Ford, Cheng held several senior executive positions within General Electric Corp., including vice president; regional executive and president of GE Appliance, Asia in Hong Kong; and chairman and chief executive officer of GE China.
Previously in his career, Cheng served as vice chairman of Jiangling Motor Company, vice chairman of Chang'an Ford Automobile Corporation Ltd. and a member of the board of directors for Ford Lio Ho Motor Company Ltd. He also was vice chairman of the Committee of 100, an organization of Chinese-American leaders devoted to encouraging better U.S.-China relations and was a member of the Board of Governors of the American Chambers of Commerce in China for several years. Currently, he is a member of the Cornell Engineering College Advisory Council.
Cheng holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering/operations research from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. and a master's degree in business administration from Rutgers University in Newark, N.J. He also is a graduate of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck Executive Program in Hanover, N.H., as well as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's program for senior executives in Cambridge, Mass. Cheng currently resides in Shanghai with a secondary residence in Atlanta.
