Former Baidu executive Xiang Hailong joined the "King of African Mobile Phones" Transsion Holdings

To the sea dragon

Zijin Finance News on January 13 news said that Baidu's former senior vice president, search company president Xiang Hailong has recently officially joined the overseas mobile phone manufacturer Transsion Holdings. Transsion Holdings said today that it confirmed that xiang Hailong's participation was true and would serve as the president of the mobile Internet business unit.

According to LatePost, Xiang Hailong will be followed by several of his former Baidu subordinates, xiang Hailong will be responsible for managing the development of TRANSSION software products and commercializing transsion's app stores and mobile Internet services such as its APP.

According to public information, Xiang Hailong joined Baidu in 2005 as the general manager of Baidu Shanghai Branch and later as the general manager of Beijing Branch; in April 2007, Xiang Hailong served as vice president of sales of Baidu Company, responsible for the national sales management of the company's bidding ranking business, including sales operations, direct sales management, channel management and enterprise market; in 2011, Xiang Hailong was transferred to Baidu as vice president of the commercial operation system; in May 2019, Xiang Hailong resigned from Baidu.

On August 13, 2020, Gome announced the establishment of Gome Online Platform Company, with Xiang Hailong as CEO. In July 2021, Xiang Hailong's entertainment marketing and social marketing failed to bring substantial changes to Gome, and it was reported that Xiang Hailong had substantially resigned from Gome, but at that time, Gome did not respond to the outside world.

Transsion Holdings is mainly engaged in the design, development, production, sales and brand operation of smart terminals with mobile phones as the core, and is committed to becoming a smart terminal product and mobile Internet service provider loved by consumers in emerging markets. Transsion owns mobile phone brands TECNO, itel and Infinitix, digital accessories brand Oraimo, household appliance brand Syinix and after-sales service brand Carlcare. On September 30, 2019, Transsion Holdings was listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

According to anecdotal legend, Transsion Holdings is known as the "King of African Mobile Phones" and has a very large market share in Africa.