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Liang Ming
Founder · Chairman & CEO
Tsinghua CS PhD; former Chief Architect at IBM Research. Built Nearus from seven engineers to a global group.
Founded in 2010, Nearus is a global technology group spanning cloud, AI, security, IoT, smart cities and digital finance. Our mission is to make a digital future accessible to every business, through technical innovation and end-to-end engineering.
By 2026 we have 5,000+ engineers, 12 R&D centers, 9 international offices, 430+ patents, and have been on the Forbes Asia Tech 100 for six consecutive years.
Explore our business →Mission defines the long-term value we create. Vision points the way. Values shape how we act.
Technology should not be a privilege of giants. Bringing world-class infrastructure to mid-sized companies is our biggest contribution to the world.
Choose the right thing over the easy one — for customers, employees, partners and society — and earn the compounding return of trust over time.
We solve business problems the engineering way: honest with data, respectful of every line of code and every promise made to customers.
A 7-engineer team launches in Chongqing, focused on enterprise software services.
First in-house virtualization platform, serving 50 mid-sized customers.
Achieves financial-grade consistency; deployed in core systems of multiple commercial banks.
Singapore and Tokyo offices open; international revenue exceeds 10% for the first time.
Smart city deployments in 30+ cities; gov-cloud share enters national top five.
A ¥10 billion in-house program to build a cross-modal foundation model.
Listed on the main board of HKEX; global headcount surpasses 4,500.
NEAR-1 v2 ships; customer base surpasses 2,000 across 30+ countries.
Twenty-plus years of leadership experience from IBM, Google, Tencent, Huawei, Microsoft and beyond.
Tsinghua CS PhD; former Chief Architect at IBM Research. Built Nearus from seven engineers to a global group.
Former Google APAC VP, Stanford MBA. Leads global strategy and commercial operations.
Former Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. Lead architect of NEAR-1 and NearDB.
Former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Asia Pacific. Led the 2024 HKEX listing.
We treat ESG as part of product quality — green data centers, responsible AI, supply-chain ethics. We commit to 100% renewable electricity at owned data centers by 2030, and operational carbon neutrality by 2040.
Information security & privacy
AICPA trust services criteria
Highest software maturity level
National cybersecurity classified protection
Maintained for 12 consecutive years
Listed for six straight years (2021–26)
Leader in cloud & database
Gov & finance cloud reports