Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei was a deputy director in the engineering corps of the People's Liberation Army before he founded Huawei. His military engineering career gave him experience of running large technical projects.

Ren Zhengfei is the founder of Huawei Technologies. He started the company in 1987, in the early years of China's economic opening, with a small amount of capital. He believed China needed its own telecommunications equipment, and Huawei moved from studying existing network switches to designing its own. His management approach is often compared to military discipline. Under Ren, Huawei invested heavily in R&D and expanded abroad, becoming a global supplier of telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics.

Ren Zhengfei was born in 1944 in Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County. Education: Chongqing Jianzhu University.