Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei (; born 25 October 1944) is a Chinese entrepreneur and engineer who is the founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and second largest manufacturer of smartphones located in Shenzhen, China. He is a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Early life Ren was born on October 25, 1944, in Zhenning County, Guizhou. His grandfather Ren Sanhe was a master chef who was an expert in curing ham from Rendian Village, Pujiang County, Zhejiang. His father, Ren Musheng, courtesy name Moxun, failed to complete university studies when Ren Zhengfei's grandfather died a year prior to his graduation. During the Japanese occupation, his father migrated south to Guangzhou to work in a military factory of the Nationalist government as an accounts clerk. After 1949, his father was appointed as the president of No. 1 Middle School of Duyun where he met Ren Zhengfei's mother Cheng Yuanzhao, who was a senior teacher at the school; his elder brother became a member of the CCP in 1958. Ren has five younger sisters and one younger brother. Ren's first wife was Meng Jun (孟军), the daughter of Meng Dongbo (孟东波), a former deputy governor of Sichuan Province. They had two children: daughter Meng Wanzhou (孟晚舟) and son Ren Ping (任平), both of whom initially took up their mother's surname Meng Ping (孟平). After their divorce, he married Yao Ling, with whom he had another daughter, Annabel Yao, who is 25 years younger than Meng Wanzhou. As of December 2018, Annabel is a ballet dancer and a computer science student at Harvard University and made a high-profile debut at Le Bal des Débutantes in Paris in 2018. Ren married for the third time to Su Wei (苏薇), who was reportedly his former secretary.