At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Beijing based CEO’ operating in the Telecommunications space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Yang Jie
Executive Director, Chairman and CEO of China Telecom
Age 56, Executive Director and Chairman of the Company, in charge of the overall management of the Company, joined the Board of Directors of the Company in March 2019. He is currently the Chairman of CMCC and a director and the Chairman of China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (“CMC”). Yang formerly served as Deputy Director General of Shanxi Posts and Telecommunications Administration, General Manager of Shanxi Telecommunications Corporation, Vice President of China Telecom Beijing Research Institute, General Manager of Business Department of the Northern Telecom of former China Telecommunications Corporation, President and Chairman of China Telecommunications Corporation, and President and Chief Operating Officer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of China Telecom Corporation Limited. Yang graduated from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications majoring in radio engineering in 1984 and obtained a doctorate degree in business administration from the ESC Rennes School of Business, France in 2008. Yang is a professor-level senior engineer with extensive experience in management and telecommunications industry.
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About China Telecom: China Telecom as China’s major basic telecom operators, is implementing the transformation and upgrading strategy.

Leilei Wang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KongZhong
Wang Leilei (1974 -), the people of Beijing, people’s liberation army generals China Wangzheng The sun, in 1999, joined the TOM.COM Internet Group, served as general manager of operations China district. In 2001, he was promoted to general manager of TOM group’s deputy chief operating officer and online business. Wang Leilei was the founder of Beijing Yin Chengzhi Technology Co., Ltd. and served as president and general manager, and has worked in the Shantou Yifeng futures brokerage Co. Ltd. and Chinese the Great Wall computer software company.
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About AA Party, KongZhong: KongZhong is a provider of digital entertainment services for consumers in the people’s republic of China.
Lixin Sun
Chairman & CEO of BaiCells Technologies
Sun Lixin, the chairman and CEO of Baicells Technologies Co.,Ltd, has spent more than 20 years in the mobile communications industry. He has held a number of positions and moderated standard meetings in driving the future Mobile technologies, including without limitation to: Chairperson of ITU-R WP5D WG Technology and Vice Chair of ITU-R SG5 Chair of APT AWG Before he founded Baicells Technologies, he served as Huawei Fellow and the head of Strategy and Standard dept.
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About BaiCells Technologies: Baicells Technologies provides wireless broadband access solutions.
Henry Wang
Founder and CEO of SmartMesh Foundation Pte. Ltd.
Henry Wang is the Founder and CEO of SmartMesh. He is also the Founder and President of International Blockchain Application Federation (IBAF). Henry’s drive and vision is to build SmartMesh (www.smartmesh.io) the InterPlanetary Decentralized Autonomous Mobile Mesh Network and promote the next generation application ecosystems, which can build the global sharing platform of interconnection and interoperation based on blockchain. Henry founded the International Blockchain Application Federation (IBAF) to promote worldwide blockchain applications. Henry earned his M.S. in Beijing University, and he pursued PHD study at Physics Department in Northwestern University with a full scholarship. In 2000, Henry transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for PHD study in Computer Science. He earned the Master Degree with expertise in Internet Tunneling Protocol Design. Henry is a thought leader and an expert on Internet Protocols, Blockchain, IoT, ASIC Design, Artificial Intelligence, and Edge Computing.
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About SmartMesh Foundation Pte. Ltd.: infrastructure, communication protocol, mesh network, blockchain, off-internet communication, off-internet payment
Lan Chen
President & CEO of DOCOMO Beijing Lab
Lan CHEN received her M.E and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Communications and Computer Engineering of Kyoto University. She joined the NTT DOCOMO in 1999 and was doing research on radio resource management for 4G. In 2004, she was appointed as the director of Advanced Wireless System Lab of DOCOMO Beijing Lab, where she was leading the lab to focus on research on LTE and LTE-Advanced and contributed in 3GPP standardization. From 2013 to 2016, she was the manager of Radio Access Network Development division of NTT DOCOMO, where she involved in the development and the enhancement of commercial radio NW. Since July 2016, she is the president and CEO of DOCOMO Beijing Labs, leading the cutting-edge research on 5G, 5G+ for future radio network, and deep learning AI innovation for new service. She received the Best Paper Awards in ICT2002, ChinaCom2012, and ITU-AJ Accomplishment Awards in 2018.
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About DOCOMO Beijing Lab: DOCOMO is a mobile communication operator with world-leading R&D level and always leads the development.
Dewen Cheng
CEO of NED+AR Display Technology
Dewen Cheng has a doctoral degree in co-cultivation from the University of Arizona and the Beijing Institute of Technology. He is a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology and holds more than 40 international top journal articles in the field of optics. He has breakthrough research in the fields of freeform surfaces, waveguides, and light fields, and has undertaken major research projects in the national display.
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About Beijing Institute of Technology, NED+AR Display Technology: NED+AR Display Technology is an optical modules supplier for augmented reality glasses.
Jiarui Li
Co-Founder and CEO of Bot Orange
Jiarui Li is the co-founder and CEO at Bot Orange. She was a product manager at Sohu Company. She has a Master’s degree in information security at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
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About Bot Orange, JuziBot: Bot Orange is a customer communication system built on WeChat that integrates sales, marketing, and more.

Gene Wuu
CEO of YuanTel
Gene has over 20 years of experience in networking and system development. Prior to Borqs, Gene held senior position as CTO of UTStarcom and head of the Softswitch Business Group. Gene also served at Bellcore as senior R&D staff. Gene is the key project driver for JIL(Joint Innovation Lab) coming projects.
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About Borqs Technologies, YuanTel: YuanTel provides one-stop communications services for enterprises.
Zhang Fu
Founder and CEO of Qingteng Cloud Security
Zhang Fu is a Founder at Qingteng Cloud Security.
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About Qingteng Cloud Security: Qingteng Cloud Security is a SaaS-based cloud security company focusing on the endpoint adaptive security.
Cheng Zhang
Founder and CEO of WiWide
Cheng Zhang (张程) is the founder and CEO of WiWide, a commercial company that provides Wi-Fi network architecture and media services.
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About WiWide: WiWide is a provider of Wi-Fi network architecture and media services along with precise marketing services.