TITLE : CEO , Honor NATIONALITY : China APPOINTED : 2013

When Huawei sold off its budget sub-brand , Honor , last year , it was announced that George Zhao would remain as its CEO . He would keep making the same phones . He would do a good , unremarkable job . At least , that ’ s what people expected to happen . A farewell party for the company was held . Ren Zhengfei made a speech and , for a couple of months , it looked as though Honor would keep on quietly making budget phones for its new owners .

Zhou , however , has a very different plan for his company . In March , he announced that Honor is working on a new premium handset that will aim to surpass Huawei ’ s own premium phones . Given room to grow , it seems as though Zhao has big plans for Honor .

TITLE : CEO , Alphabet , Inc . NATIONALITY : India APPOINTED : 2015

As the CEO of Alphabet , Inc , Sundar Pichai has to wear a lot of hats , from cloud entrepreneur to sustainability advocate . However , he also has a hand on the wheel of Google ’ s Pixel phone division . Pichai was born in Chennai , India , and has a background in materials engineering , as well as management consulting at McKinsey & Company .

In the wake of the COVID- 19 crisis , Pichai has been a vocal advocate of using the technological advances made during the pandemic to create a more inclusive digital economy . At the Singapore FinTech Festival in December , Pichai said that , “ Our goal for the post-Covid world is to ensure the benefits of technology can be shared , as widely and equitably as possible . If we can do that , 2020 will be remembered not as the end of the world , but the beginning of a world that works better for everyone .”

132 July 2021