Robert Zhu, Chairman and CEO of ZNV Technology, was born and grew up in China. He completed his postgraduate studies in Australia in engineering, before completing an MBA. He worked at ABB for 10 years, rising from product manager to General Manager and Head of Asia Operations before joining Tyco International’s security division ADT, the largest security company in the World, where Zhu was President of APAC for 5 years. ZNV was previously the power and environment monitoring and surveillance product line of ZTE, and is still partially owned by ZTE. In April 2014 Zhu was head hunted to become Chairman and CEO of ZNV, running day to day operations.