With Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra hanging up his boots by end of February, senior vice president Xiang Wang is all set to replace him to lead Xiaomi’s global efforts going ahead.
Xiang Wang joined Xiaomi in June 2015 as the senior vice president of strategic cooperation and had worked as the president of Qualcomm Greater China since April 2010. Also read: Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Was The Last Phone to be Launched by Hugo Barra as he Quits
Hugo Barra, the most prominent global executive at China's Xiaomi Inc and the face of the smartphone maker's global expansion, has left the company citing health concerns and a new role.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Barra, Xiaomi's vice president in charge of global operations, said he was leaving the company after three-and-a-half years for a new project based in Silicon Valley.Also read: Vivo V5 Plus with 20MP Plus 8MP Dual Front Cameras Launched For Rs 27,980
Xiaomi was briefly the world's most valuable startup and had hopes to be China's equivalent of Apple Inc. But the firm has recently grappled with slowing smartphone sales and fell out of the top five in China for smartphone vendors in 2016, after reaching No. 2 in 2015.(With Reuters inputs)
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