Huawei appoints new Middle East head for cloud and AI business

  • Date: 22-Sep-2020
  • Source: Gulf Business
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:GCC
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Huawei appoints new Middle East head for cloud and AI business

Huawei has appointed Li Shi as its new regional president for the Cloud and AI Business Group, to be based in Dubai.

Shi will oversee the expansion of the group's regional product and solution portfolio along with partner ecosystems, the company said.

Shi has nearly 15 years of international experience with Huawei. He was most recently the CEO of Huawei UAE and had also previously held executive positions for Huawei in other Gulf and Levant countries.

"Nearly every industry in the region has been re-booting for the digital age. Cloud and AI technologies will accelerate this transformation over the next decade,“ said Li Shi, president Cloud and AI Business Group in the Middle East.

"By offering new cloud services with our partners, enabling deeper AI research and development, and