Arris announced today that former China Cable Networks executive Ming Wu has been hired as the company’s vice president of business development for the Chinese marketplace.
In his new job with Arris, Wu will represent the company as it identifies new business opportunities and works with government ministries and with cable system operators to help them deploy triple-play services for the country’s cable customers. He reports to Stan Brovont, senior vice president of business development and marketing, and will work out of Arris’ offices in Beijing and Shenzhen.
Wu was chief operating officer and vice president of research and development at state-owned China Cable Networks (CCN). At CCN, Wu had overall responsibility for company profit and loss, product development and the creation of a centralized operational management system.
Previously, he spent several years at Dell Computers as its greater China director and at Nortel Networks, where he was research and development director for Nortel’s wireline products.
Wu started his career in telecommunications at MCI Corp., where he was a global network senior manager of engineering.