Chapter 381: Cool Wind Group
Wang Hao's matter can only be like this, he will continue to hold on for a year, and then retire.
After a period of rest, he continued to serve as the company's technical advisor and honorary lecturer, and contributed to the training of technical talents in Fengxing College.
In this case, in order to be able to successfully complete the handover of the technical teams of Fengxing Group and Coolwind Technology, it is very necessary to start personnel adjustment now.
Lin Feng discussed with Wang Hao and chose a suitable time to announce it to the public.
After communicating with Wang Hao, Lin Feng focused on the adjustment of Coolwind's organizational structure.
The scale of Cool Wind has far exceeded Lin Feng's initial positioning of it, and he originally just wanted to get a piece of the pie when smartphones were on the rise.
I never thought that XPhone would be able to overwhelm Apple's iPhone in the past two years and become one of the new overlords of smartphones......
It can be said that because of Lin Feng's "prophet" and years of preparation in advance, Cool Wind broke out at the most appropriate time and appropriately, grabbing a leading position in the broadest market.
Now that it has come to this point, Lin Feng has to be serious, through organizational structure adjustment and personnel adjustment, tap the world's top bulls, and maintain the hard-won advantage of Coolwind!
After the 2010 Cool Wind Annual Meeting, all the company's personnel received personnel appointment documents from the Administration Department.
Cool Wind Technology Co., Ltd. will officially change its name to Cool Wind Group on March 1, 2010.
The Group's management structure is as follows:
Chairman and CEO of the Group: Lin Feng
Group President & COO: Lei Jun (focusing on global sales, operations, and supply chain management)
Group CTO: Li Yinan (leading the technical team and cutting-edge technology development)
Group CFO: Luca Maestri (Former Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Apple)
Senior Vice President of the Group and President of the Mature Markets Group: Andy Rubin (responsible for operations in mature markets such as Europe and the United States)
Chief Scientist of the Group: Zhou Guangping
Senior Vice President & President of Emerging Markets Group: Yang Tuo (responsible for Southeast Asia and Emerging Markets operations)
Group Vice President & President of Andriod Systems Division: Lin Bin (leading Andriod System Optimization & Global Licensing)
Group Vice President & President of Consumer Services & Marketing: Chao Yang (leading global marketing, advertising and after-sales services for Xphone)
Group Vice President & President, Retail: Angela Ahrendts (formerly CEO of Burberry, leading global retail and online stores)
Under the Cool Wind Group, the company established a mature market group, an emerging market group, an Android division, a consumer services and marketing division, a retail division, and a new business development division.
After nearly two years of Coolwind's rapid development in the global market, there are two very important positions, and Lin Feng can only poach them from overseas.
That's the CFO, and the head of the retail department.
Xphone is currently sold in more than 30 countries and regions around the world, with different tax rates, exchange rates, monetary policies, etc., so Coolwind's CFO needs to be very experienced and can design many complex accounting strategies to help Coolwind minimize the tax payable for its huge overseas business.
Therefore, the original financial director Zhao Yan was not qualified for this position, so Lin Feng had to poach overseas, and finally took a lot of effort to poach Kuka from Apple.
The other is the president of the retail division.
Lin Feng knew that Apple's store was of great significance to the sales of the iPhone in his previous life.
The marketing policy of combining offline and online is a truth that has been tested by countless mobile phone companies in previous lives!
Moreover, whether it is Xphone, Xpad, Xatch or even more smart consumer electronics products in the future, there is a big trend, that is: the combination of technology and fashion!
So, it's best to look for the right person from the fashion retail sector.
In the end, Lin Feng thought of Angela Arentz.
If the Burberry CEO had followed the trajectory of her previous life, she would have been poached by Apple in 2013 to become senior vice president (SVP) in charge of Apple's retail business.
After graduating in 1981, Ahrendz worked for Donna Karan (an American fashion brand) and then Henri Bendel, and in 1998 she became Vice President of Operations and Design at Liz Claiborne, where she was responsible for 22 sub-brands. Among them, Juicy Couture's operation is the most successful. She was then contacted by former Burberry CEO Rose Marie Bravo to become the company's CEO.
During his tenure as CEO of Burberry, Alens re-established the style of the long-established luxury brand Burberry through technology, bringing Burberry from second-tier luxury to first-tier luxury.
For the current Coolwind, because of the rapid expansion in the world, more than 50% of the world's employees will serve in retail positions, retail is an important part of the user experience of products such as Xphone, Ahrendts' character and leadership can make this huge team go closer together and make more amazing results.
"Her focus on value and innovation aligns well with Xmobile's philosophy. In line with our philosophy, she also has a strong focus on the customer experience. She cares about people and believes that the most important resource is our people. She is a firm believer in enriching people's lives, and she is really smart. Over the course of her career, she has proven herself to be an extraordinary leader with a proven track record. During her tenure at Burberry, she has driven the company's performance by focusing on its brand, culture, core values and positive energy. ”
In her previous life, the "fashion goddess" who was dug up by Apple's Cook took 18 months to dig up Apple, and was dug up by Lin Feng in advance......
The price is up to $100 million in compensation per year (including $500,000 in salary, $500,000 in signing money, and 5 million share equity option incentives).
Of course, the salaries of the rest of the Cool Wind Group management team have also been raised to align with the global average.
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After the organizational structure and personnel adjustment of Cool Wind Group, it has a more global background, especially the previous Europe, America and Greater China regions have been changed to mature market groups and emerging market groups, which is also ready for Xphone to enter more countries and regions in the future.
At the same time, now that Cool Wind has abundant cash flow, Lin Feng also has funds in his hands to make more future-oriented layouts.
First, he plans to buy a plot of land in Silicon Valley to build Xmobile's new headquarters in the United States. In addition, the research institutes of Cool Wind and Fengxing have been put together, in fact, the next two companies have different research and development directions in technology, Cool Wind will go to the direction of new consumer electronics and intelligent hardware, and Fengxing is to deep learning, artificial intelligence and big data, and cloud computing.
With Coolwind's new headquarters in Silicon Valley, the two institutes can also be separated.
Secondly, although Cool Wind is now developing well and growing rapidly, it is not surprising that lawsuits will soon be entangled in it......
Apple is accustomed to fighting a lawsuit with Android, although in this life because the development of Xphone is faster than Iphone, Lao Qiao does not have enough confidence now, but it should not be far away. Lin Feng wants to set aside a large amount of money to deal with the lawsuit.
Of course, it is not enough to respond to lawsuits, but also to strengthen its own patent reserves, on the one hand, it is necessary to continuously develop and innovate new patented technologies, and on the other hand, it can be compensated by acquisitions.
For example, there was a very good acquisition opportunity recently!
On January 14, 2009, Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Delaware. Subsequently, Nortel Networks began to sell assets in batches. Lin Feng knew that just recently, at the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, Nortel would sell the company's last important asset, its more than 6,000 patents!
These patents cover a wide range of high-tech fields, such as i-Fi, social networking, and LTE 4G technology.
Industry experts believe that these patents can be considered a "nuclear arsenal", because the successful bidder will be able to launch a series of patent lawsuits that will make it difficult for competitors to gain traction.
At that time, Google, Apple, Intel, as well as RIM, EMC, Ericsson, Sony, Microsoft and other companies will make up Rockstar? The Bidco consortium will join the auction.
In this game, Lin Feng must participate!
This is the best opportunity for the weak foundation of Cool Wind to win some core patented technologies to deal with patent litigation cases of all parties.
With this patented "nuclear weapon" in hand, whether it is talking or fighting, Cool Wind will be able to play with ease.
Of course, it is difficult to pass the approval of US regulators on its own, and Lin Feng's plan is to join forces with Google!
After all, in a previous life, Google lost to Apple. But this time with Cool Wind, the ending is different......
In addition to the possible patent litigation with Apple, there are actually two other troubles for Coolwind.
That's the patents related to Microsoft and SUN (which has been acquired by Oracle) involved in the Andriod system......
Microsoft's technical patents related to smartphones mainly cover three parts: Microsoft technology patents used at all levels of the Android operating system, technical patents such as ex-FAT, RDP, EAS, etc., and technical patents related to iFi and 3G/4G.
So how many patents are there? According to the attachment submitted by Microsoft, there are 310 of these patents (click here to see the attachment), and the vast majority of them are non-standard essential patents. Microsoft's Android patents specifically include "data format for storage, retrieval and transmission of multimedia objects", "remote acquisition and display of text with screen", "browser navigation device input system", "search and browsing URL and URL history", "address book update function", "synchronization channel selection method" and so on.
Oracle holds the patents and copyrights for Java, and the Android system also uses Java APIs for programming.
But fortunately, Lin Feng and Larry Ellison have a good personal relationship, and Oracle can still discuss it.
It's not easy for Microsoft to deal with, because there are too many patented technologies involved, so you can only fight a lawsuit first, and then negotiate and settle.
In short, success is not so easy......
Cool Wind has achieved such an amazing performance, there are too many people in all aspects, and various stakeholders will soon appear on the scene.
This is also the reason why Lin Feng is still the CEO.
He came to escort Lei Jun, Lei Jun just concentrated on the company's operation and development, and in other aspects, especially overseas, Lin Feng's fame and influence are mostly large, and in terms of contacts and heavyweights, it is enough to deal with the wind and rain of all parties!
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