SHI Lirong

CEO & Executive Director, ZTE Corporation

With over 20 years of experience in R&D, production, sales and management in the telecom industry, Mr. Shi Lirong is one of the chief architects behind ZTE Corporation’s internationalization drive and globalization efforts. Mr. Shi has been the Executive Director of the Board since February 2001 and was nominated and elected as CEO of ZTE Corporation in March 2010, committed to accelerating ZTE’s global expansion and progress in overseas markets. Mr. Shi leads his team using the historical 4G/LTE momentum to accomplish the global technical and marketing layout, developing the company into the industry positions of the world No.5 handset vendor and the world No.4 Smartphone provider, with patents applications ranked as World No.1. Born in 1964 and being a senior engineer by training, Mr. Shi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Radio Electronics and Information Technology from Tsinghua University in 1984 and a Master’s Degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1989. He was the first ZTE employee to work overseas, thus bearing witness to the company’s rapid development. Mr. Shi was ranked into China Economic Person of the Year 2011 and GTB Power 100 of the year 2010, the 100 most influential people in the industry worldwide.