Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei leads Huawei Technologies, one of the world's largest manufacturer of telecommunication hardware and mobile phones.Ren is the son of school teachers and grew up in a mountainous town in southern China's Guizhou Province. Ren held technician posts in China's military and worked for Shenzhen South Sea Oil before establishing Huawei with the equivalent of $3,000 in 1987.Huawei today does business in more than 170 countries with 180,000 employees.