Revealing the secret of Xiaomi Auto’s 17-member core team
Latest update time：2021-09-02
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Ever since Lei Jun announced that he would build a car, the industry has been paying a lot of attention to Xiaomi cars, but it has been in a relatively mysterious state since then. The release of this photo means that Xiaomi has made substantial progress in building cars. However, some of the creative staff in this photo were not well known to the outside world before. After extensive understanding, the friends of Chedongxi have sorted out the complete picture. From the list of personnel, we may be able to get a glimpse of the overall layout of Xiaomi Motors. As shown in the table below (numbers correspond to the picture above):
What are their backgrounds?
1. Lin Shiwei:
Lin Shiwei holds a master's degree in engineering from Oxford University. He once served as Managing Director of the Capital Markets Department and Head of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Business of Credit Suisse Asia Pacific Investment Bank; he also served as Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, responsible for the capital markets business of the Asia Pacific Technology, Media and Telecommunications industry.
Holding important positions in two Fortune 500 companies at the same time also shows Lin Shiwei's ability. The listing of Alibaba, Pinduoduo, Kingsoft Cloud, and Xpeng Motors in the U.S. stock market is also inseparable from Lin Shiwei's contribution. Even Alibaba, Xiaomi, Lin Shiwei also contributed to the listing of NetEase and Meitu on the Hong Kong stock market.
In October 2020, Lin Shiwei officially took office as the vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) of Xiaomi Group. He is responsible for the overall coordination and management of the group's financial work, and reports to both group CEO Lei Jun and president Wang Xiang.
2. Zhang Feng:
Zhang Feng graduated from Shanghai University of Science and Technology with a major in radio electronic measurement. Since then, he has been deeply involved in the mobile phone and communications industry for more than 20 years. He once served as the general manager of Nanjing Inventa.
In 2012, Zhang Feng officially founded Jiangsu Zimi Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. and became a Xiaomi ecological chain enterprise. Starting in 2016, Zhang Feng officially entered Xiaomi, managed the supply chain, and became the main force in solving Xiaomi supplier component and mobile phone supply problems.
During his time at Xiaomi, Zhang Feng was involved in Xiaomi's mobile power supplies, batteries and other products, and was very familiar with the entire supply chain.
3. Liu De:
Liu De received a master's degree in industrial design from the Art Center College of Art and Design and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology.
In 2010, he founded the Xiaomi Group with Lei Jun, mainly responsible for Xiaomi's industrial design and supply chain management team. In 2013, he began to build Xiaomi's ecological chain, and is also known as the "Father of Xiaomi's ecological chain."
As the main founder of Xiaomi's ecological chain, Liu De is very experienced in the ecological chain. He has done a good job when Xiaomi faced the diverse product categories of the ecological chain. This ability is also very useful for Xiaomi Auto to build a complete industrial chain. help.
4. Wang Xiang:
Wang Xiang graduated from Beijing University of Technology with a degree in electronic engineering and has a lot of experience in communications and marketing.
He has held important positions in sales and marketing at Motorola, Lucent/Agere and other companies. In addition, he has also worked at Qualcomm for 13 years, serving as Qualcomm's senior vice president and president of Greater China, and was fully responsible for Qualcomm's operations in Greater China. business and operations.
In 2015, Wang Xiang joined Xiaomi as senior vice president, responsible for strategic cooperation and important partnerships. In 2019, he was promoted to president of Xiaomi Group.
While Wang Xiang was working at Xiaomi, he played an important role in Xiaomi's internationalization process. After joining Xiaomi's car manufacturing team, he may also play an important role in Xiaomi's global supply chain of manufacturing cars overseas and chips.
5. Lei Jun:
The soul of Xiaomi Group and the operator of Xiaomi Auto.
6. Hong Feng:
Hong Feng studied at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Purdue University in the United States and is very capable in software engineering.
Worked at Siebel for four years, responsible for server performance and scalability of web applications for large professional systems. He joined Google in 2005 as a senior software engineer and was the main person in charge of Google Maps 3D scenes and Google Calendar.
In 2010, he participated in the founding of Xiaomi, and was responsible for the MIUI business and served as the person in charge from 2012 to 2018. Since 2018, he has served as the chairman and CEO of Tianxing Digital, a subsidiary of Xiaomi, and is responsible for the development of Xiaomi’s financial business.
To a certain extent, the success of Xiaomi mobile phones comes from MIUI's transformation of the Android system. Hong Feng will play an important role in how to transfer the success of Xiaomi mobile phones to Xiaomi cars.
7. Lu Weibing:
Lu Weibing graduated from the Chemistry Department of Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree in science. He once served as the president of Gionee Group. He was mainly responsible for Gionee's R&D, production, brand marketing, global marketing, e-commerce, operators and other departments. He is experienced in all aspects of mobile phones.
In 2017, Lu Weibing took Gionee’s overseas team to establish an OEM company, Chengyi Technology. In 2019, Lu Weibing officially joined Xiaomi and took over the Redmi brand.
At the end of 2019, Lu Weibing became the president of Xiaomi China and continued to serve as the general manager of the Redmi brand. At the beginning of this year, while retaining the above title, Lu Weibing also served as the president of the international department of Xiaomi Group, which was highly regarded by Lei Jun.
8. Qi Yan:
Qi Yan is the only woman in this photo, and she was also the only woman who participated in ringing the bell when Xiaomi Group went public.
She once worked in the cadres of the Central Committee of the Democratic National Construction Association and the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Democratic National Construction Association, and began to serve as the executive vice president of Patriot in 2004.
In 2012, he officially joined Xiaomi as Vice President in charge of platform and external public relations. It can be said that she has a good reputation in electronic stores, IT industry and governments at all levels. She is known as the big sister of Zhongguancun and has a strong ability to deal with government departments.
9. He Yong:
He Yong is a Ph.D. graduate from Wuhan University. He previously served as deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Government Office in Beijing. With such experience, He Yong also has very good experience in government communication, public affairs, regional economy, and corporate services.
In 2018, He Yong officially joined Xiaomi Group and was mainly responsible for the group’s public affairs, regional headquarters management, regional expansion, and administrative management.
10. Qin Zhifan:
Qin Zhifan is also one of the main creative teams of Xiaomi Group and is employee No. 11 of Xiaomi Group.
In 2009, he was an intern at Kingsoft PowerWord. He was called to the office by the then general manager Li Wanqiang and invited to start a business together. Later, he joined Xiaomi with Li Wanqiang.
After joining Xiaomi, Qin Zhifan became Xiaomi's UI designer, and even the venue for the Xiaomi Mi 1 launch conference was designed and built by him.
As a designer who has participated in Xiaomi's development process, Qin Zhifan's work may also be seen on Xiaomi cars.
11. Liu Anyu:
Liu Anyu is also one of the early employees of Xiaomi. His job number is 37 and he is also the R&D engineer of the MIX series of mobile phones.
Basically, Liu Anyu participated in the research and development of Xiaomi's previous generations of mobile phones.
On the national intellectual property website, 147 patent application data with Xiaomi "Liu Anyu" as the inventor can be found, of which 142 are invention patents and 5 are invention patents. Utility model patents.
12. Li Tianyuan:
Li Tianyuan is the only one among the 17 people who joined Xiaomi's car-making team from a traditional car company.
Li Tianyuan graduated from Southwest University of Science and Technology in 2009. He worked at Great Wall Huaguan from 2009 to 2011, PSA China Design Center from 2011 to 2012, BMW Designworks from 2012 to 2016, and started working at BMW in 2016. i/M department.
The most important thing is that the appearance of BMW's previously released flagship model iX was designed by Li Tianyuan. In the automobile company that Europeans are most proud of, Li Tianyuan's design has been recognized by BMW, and his design capabilities are evident.
In view of this experience, the appearance design of Xiaomi cars has basically been determined to be designed by Li Tianyuan. As the designer of BMW’s flagship model, Li Tianyuan is bound to bring more different things to Xiaomi cars.
13. Yu Kai:
Yu Kai is also one of Xiaomi’s early employees.
In 2018, Xiaomi announced its latest organizational structure adjustments and personnel appointments, splitting the TV Department, Ecological Chain Department, MIUI Department and Interactive Entertainment Department into ten new business departments.
Among them, the third Internet department was established, and Yu Kai served as the general manager. After announcing the car-making this year, Yu Kai participated in the job transfer. In early May this year, when Lei Jun went to GAC Aian for investigation and inspection, Yu Kai accompanied him.
In Xiaomi's car-making preparatory team, Yu Kai is responsible for the cockpit preparation work. A cockpit team may be formed in the future, but it is still unknown what projects Xiaomi Motors will eventually participate in.
14. Li Xiaoshuang:
Li Xiaoshuang graduated from Beijing University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Beijing Institute of Technology.
In 2012, as Xiaomi acquired Duokan Reading, a subsidiary of Duokan Technology, Li Xiaoshuang, the product director of Duokan Reading at the time, also joined Xiaomi. At the end of the same year, Li Xiaoshuang participated in the product design of Xiaomi Box and served as the product director of Xiaomi TV since 2015. Later, he became the general manager of the major appliance department of Xiaomi Group.
Currently, Li Xiaoshuang is mainly responsible for preparatory work related to car manufacturing and the settlement of supply chain factories.
15. Ye Hangjun:
Ye Hangjun has a deep background in mobile Internet. From 2006 to 2010, Ye Hangjun worked at Google.
In the next two years, Ye Hangjun joined Tencent and engaged in search engine technology research and development. After working for two years, he joined Xiaomi Group.
Ye Hangjun has very deep experience in fields such as technical architecture and cloud computing. Currently, Ye Hangjun is mainly responsible for Xiaomi’s autonomous driving team.
16. Chen Jinhong:
Chen Jinhong is Lei Jun’s business assistant and once worked in Xiaomi’s president’s office. Previously, he assisted Lei Jun in conducting research on the automotive industry.
17. Fan Jialin:
Fan Jialin is a master's student at the School of Software and Microelectronics at Peking University and one of Xiaomi's early employees.
He once participated in the research and development of Xiaomi MiLiao application, and was later responsible for the product design and research and development of Xiaomi routers and related smart hardware.
Conclusion
It is not difficult to see from the core founding team of Xiaomi Motors that almost all the core members are from Xiaomi's original team,
with only one member being a new member
.
From the side, it also reflects that Lei Jun is very cautious and confident.
This group of old subordinates also understand Lei Jun better and can greatly improve the efficiency of organizational operations. In addition, technology accumulation and internal organization are important challenges for today's car companies. Judging from Xiaomi's structure, the latter may be more serious. The author believes that this is what engineers and friends need to think about. While focusing on the depth of our own expertise, we also need to have a certain degree of industry breadth, product perspective, and organizational management thinking.
The establishment of the executive team is just the beginning of Xiaomi's car-making. As the project progresses, I believe it will continue to grow. Let us wait and see whether Xiaomi Motors, which has been surpassed by Lei Jun in all its records, can bring us a surprise!
Source: Chedezhi public account
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