Shanghai.-started as a Secretary and has become candidate for the succession of his father at the head of the Chinese giant Huawei, number two world of mobile phones. But the “Princess” of Huawei, Meng Wanzhou did not have end up in a Canadian prison, victim of the rivalry between China and the United States.
Meng, financial Director of Huawei, was arrested last week in Vancouver, and is found in instances of extradition to the United States. According to press reports, Washington suspects that the policy violated the embargo on Iran.
Meng seemed destined to become one of the most powerful business women of the planet, the day that happened to his father at the head of the group based in Shenzhen, South of China.
Meng Wanzhou. Photo: AFP his father, Ren Zhengfei, exingeniero of the Chinese army, founded Huawei in 1987 with a few thousand dollars initial capital. 74-year-old still chairing the group, located in the 72ª place of the first 500 global companies according to Fortune, with 80,000 million euros (USD 90,000 million) annual turnover.
The Group has become one of the first suppliers of material and equipment for telecommunications networks, giving rise to suspicions of the United States and other countries maintain links with power in Beijing.
Although Meng was the daughter of the founder of the group, Huawei leaders ensure that internal promotion depends on merit.
The own interested insists in the beginning, at the bottom of the scale. According to Chinese media, it would be reported in an internal memo that it began as a simple Secretary.
Then he obtained a diploma of management in China, and went into the financial services of Huawei.
Photo: AFP always according to the Chinese press, Meng was to its beginnings extremely discreet, to the point that few people knew who was his father, especially since small carries the surname of his mother, for a reason that is ignored.
Ren Zhengfei “it’s a boss at work, and a father at home,” said Meng, to attempt to prove that his rise has nothing to do with his status of “daughter of”. In his interviews speak the “President Ren”, and never “my father”.
Huawei, not publicly traded, waited until 2011 to reveal the list of their leaders; then it was learned that Meng occupied the functions of financial director.
Unlike grey entrepreneurs that fill the boards of Directors of large Chinese companies, Meng has a reputation for being accessible, despite his nickname of “Princess of Huawei”.
Meng, who speaks good English, represented the group abroad, where he appeared in 2014 along with Russian President Vladimir Putin at an economic forum in Moscow.
Meng Wanzhou. Photo: AFP of about 46 years old, Meng seems remote from the more mundane sort of life of her young sister Annabel Yao, who should participate last month in Paris in the prestigious dance of the debutantes, according to the magazine Paris-Match.
It is ignored if she is married, but the Chinese press credited with two children.
According to rumors, Ren initially wanted her son Ren Ping to be his successor, but this was later denied.
Ren Ping does not also appear in the list of administrators of the Group and has disappeared from the Chinese media in recent years, which increased the inheritance possibilities of Meng Wanzhou until his arrest in Vancouver.
