Foxconn names iPhone czar, CFO to Terry Gou’s inner circle

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. will appoint its group finance chief and the overseer of the world’s largest iPhone production base to a newly created operations committee, anointing potential successors to billionaire founder Terry Gou.

Hon Hai, the largest listed arm of Foxconn Technology Group, is establishing a body of nine executives who will represent its top decision-making unit after the board, the company said in exchange filings, confirming a previous report from Bloomberg News. They include Foxconn Chief Financial Officer Huang Chiu-lian and Lin Zheng-hui — known also as Lin Cheng-hui — who heads the company’s enormous iPhone-making facility in central China’s Zhengzhou. The group will rule on major business matters, a person familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified because the appointments aren’t public.