On March 28, Huawei held the 2021 business financial report press conference at its headquarters in Shenzhen, which was the first public appearance of Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou after returning to China. On the evening of April 1, according to the latest information on Huawei's official website, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou served as the rotating chairman.
In the announcement released by Huawei, huawei said that it has completed the election of the board of supervisors and elected the chairman of the board of supervisors, supervisors, and alternate supervisors.
Huawei's current supervisory board members are: Guo Ping, Ding Yun, Li Jie, Yao Fuhai, Li Yingtao, Chen Lifang, Song Liuping, Ren Shulu, Li Dafeng, Tian Feng, Peng Zhongyang, Shi Yanli, Yang Li, Ma Zhenzhen, and Lu Ke.
Huawei's current board members are: Liang Hua, Xu Zhijun, Hu Houkun, Meng Wanzhou, Wang Tao, Yu Chengdong, Xu Wenwei, He Tingbo, Ren Zhengfei, Tao Jingwen, Yan Lida, Li Jianguo, and Bloomberg.
According to Huawei's corporate system, the Board of Directors is the highest responsible body for the company's strategy, operation management, and customer satisfaction, undertaking the mission of leading the company forward, exercising the company's strategy and management decision-making power, and ensuring that the interests of customers and shareholders are safeguarded.
The Board of Directors and the Standing Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company shall be presided over by the Rotating Chairman, who shall be the supreme leader of the Company during the period of his or her duties.
It is understood that at Huawei's 2021 operating financial report press conference, for the company's performance, Meng Wanzhou said: "Our scale has become smaller, but our profitability and cash flow acquisition capabilities are increasing, and the company's ability to cope with uncertainty is constantly improving." ”
Meng Wanzhou also said: "The last time I attended Huawei's financial report conference was 4 years ago. In the past 4 years, the world has changed a lot, and the motherland has also changed a lot, and in the few months since I returned home, I have been studying hard to keep up with these changes. ”
According to the data, Meng Wanzhou graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a master's degree. He is currently the vice chairman, rotating chairman and CFO of the company.
In 1993, at the age of 20, Meng Wanzhou joined Huawei, when not many people inside Huawei knew that she was Ren Zhengfei's daughter. Since then, she has been working in the financial system, successively serving as director of the international accounting department, financial director of Huawei in Hong Kong, president of the accounting management department, and president of the sales financing and capital management department.
Since 2005, Meng Wanzhou has led the establishment of five financial sharing centers to support Huawei's global accounting work and promote the completion of Huawei's global centralized payment center in Shenzhen.
In 2007, she was responsible for implementing the eight-year Huawei IFS (Integrated Financial Services) transformation with IBM. IfS reformed, built a data system, and established rules in terms of resource allocation, operational efficiency, process optimization, and internal control construction, Huawei has opened the road of refined management and become one of Huawei's continuous growth genes.
In 2013, Meng Wanzhou walked in the spotlight for the first time as the daughter of Ren Zhengfei and the CFO of Huawei. It is rumored that she will be Huawei's "future successor", she responded directly, "Huawei has no secrets", "don't spell Daddy, don't fight Mom, everything depends on contribution and ability." ”
At that time, the recognized Successor of Huawei also delivered a speech at Tsinghua University, mentioning Huawei's talent concept: Huawei does not use age and seniority as the standard for selection, but only takes the contribution of the responsibility result as the assessment standard.
In the face of external doubts, Ren Zhengfei has also personally described Huawei's four major employment principles: Huawei cadres are not lifelong; Huawei will not accommodate anyone; At the cadre level, the last-place elimination system of performance appraisal has been consistently adopted; Demoted cadres should not suffer from gains and losses, but should bear grievances.
In March 2018, Meng Wanzhou was appointed vice chairman of Huawei by voting by the shareholding employee representative council.
Unexpectedly, on December 1, 2018, Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, and the United States asked Canada to extradite her, and the Canadian court is scheduled to hold a bail hearing on the matter on December 7. On December 11, a Canadian court ruled approving The bail application of Huawei's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou.
On August 18, 2021, the trial of Meng Wanzhou's extradition case ended; On September 25, 2021, Meng Wanzhou returned to his homeland on a chartered flight by the Chinese government.