Lin Bin

Lin Bin served as President of Xiaomi from the company's founding in 2010 until stepping back from day-to-day management in 2019. Prior to Xiaomi, he held senior engineering and management roles at Google China and Microsoft China. At Xiaomi, Lin Bin was responsible for hardware product development and manufacturing partnerships, playing a central role in establishing the supply chain relationships and contract manufacturing agreements with Foxconn and other partners that enabled Xiaomi's rapid hardware scaling.

Lin Bin co-founded Xiaomi in 2010 alongside Lei Jun, bringing engineering credibility from his tenures at both Google China and Microsoft China. As President and co-CEO during Xiaomi's formative years, Lin Bin oversaw the hardware engineering and manufacturing operations that produced the Mi series smartphones. His background in software engineering from two of the world's most technically rigorous companies helped ensure that Xiaomi's hardware-software integration remained competitive from the company's earliest products. Lin Bin stepped back from full-time executive responsibilities in 2019, transitioning to an advisory and strategic role. His equity stake in Xiaomi at the time of the 2018 IPO was substantial, and he remains one of the company's significant individual shareholders.