Huawei Tech­nolo­gies T&T has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Mr. Jeff Jin as the Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer for its op­er­a­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go, with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.

Jin takes over the job of spear­head­ing the Huawei T&T team with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for over­see­ing strate­gic growth, de­vel­op­ment and over­all op­er­a­tions for all of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the East­ern Caribbean, with a range of fo­cus in­clud­ing the Huawei net­work, en­ter­prise and de­vice busi­ness groups.

At 41 years old, with 16 years of a pro­gres­sive track-record, Mr. Jin—armed with his Bach­e­lor’s in Me­chan­i­cal En­gi­neer­ing and his Mas­ter’s in Me­chan­i­cal De­sign—has a widerang­ing Huawei ex­pe­ri­ence in the Asia Pa­cif­ic re­gion, Eu­rope and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca with in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pe­ri­ence in Project Man­age­ment, Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment, Mar­ket­ing and Sales.

His last posts in­clude: CEO of the Huawei El Sal­vador Of­fice, Vice Pres­i­dent of Sales in Swe­den, and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Man­ag­er in Sin­ga­pore.

His ini­tial com­ments up­on tak­ing up his post in Port of Spain ex­plain him well: “I look for­ward to work­ing with the T&T Gov­ern­ment, op­er­a­tors and lo­cal part­ners to bring dig­i­tal ser­vices to every per­son, home and or­ga­ni­za­tion to achieve and main­tain a ful­ly con­nect­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go. As a glob­al leader and en­abler of ICT in­no­va­tion, we at Huawei are fo­cused on col­lab­o­ra­tions that sus­tain growth and de­vel­op­ment wher­ev­er we op­er­ate.”

He is par­tic­u­lar­ly dri­ven by the vi­sion of a Huawei ini­tia­tive ti­tled: ‘A Bet­ter Con­nect­ed, Smart Trinidad and To­ba­go’.

An avid sports afi­ciona­do, Mr. Jin fills his spare time with ac­tive par­tic­i­pa­tion in soc­cer, golf and ten­nis, as he sees the Huawei pres­ence go­ing be­yond the dig­i­tal busi­ness world: “I’m ex­cit­ed to build on the strate­gic part­ner­ships we have al­ready es­tab­lished in T&T, and to con­tin­ue grow­ing our cor­po­rate so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty foot­print here, fo­cus­ing on de­vel­op­ing youth and ICT skills, as well as tal­ent in the lo­cal hu­man re­source mar­ket to deep­en and en­hance the lo­cal and Re­gion­al ICT sec­tor.”

As CEO, Jin plans to con­tin­ue the suc­cess­ful Huawei ‘Seeds for the Fu­ture’ Train­ing Pro­gram, and al­so to over­see the start-up of an In­tern­ship ven­ture at the lo­cal of­fice.

He point­ed to the his­to­ry of Huawei T&T, not­ing that since the es­tab­lish­ment of its of­fices in Port of Spain in 2006, the Com­pa­ny has suc­cess­ful­ly pur­sued its ob­jec­tives of: train­ing and ICT skills en­hance­ment, de­vel­op­ing strate­gic part­ner­ships for up­grad­ing of the lo­cal mo­bile and fixed net­works, and wide dis­sem­i­na­tion of Huawei’s Smart De­vices.