Ren Zhengfei

About Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei leads Huawei Technologies, one of the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunication hardware and mobile phones.

Ren is the son of school teachers and grew up in a mountainous town in southern China's Guizhou Province.

Ren held technician posts in China's military and worked for Shenzhen South Sea Oil before establishing Huawei with the equivalent of $3,000 in 1987.

Huawei today does business in more than 170 countries with 180,000 employees.