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Thai Lee occupe actuellement le rang #548 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur technologie). Fortune nette estimée : $7.4 B ($0 sur 24h).
Thai Lee is CEO of $16 billion (gross sales) IT provider SHI International, which has 17,000 customers, including Boeing and AT&T.
Born in Bangkok, Lee grew up in South Korea and moved to the U.S. for high school before heading to Amherst for college.
Her father, a prominent economist who traveled the world promoting his country's postwar development plan, was the first Korean to graduate from Amherst.
Lee, also an alum of Harvard Business School, did stints at Procter & Gamble and American Express.
Lee and her now ex-husband Leo KoGuan paid less than $1 million for a software reseller in 1989, the predecessor to SHI. Today she owns 60% while he owns 40%.
SHI recently invested $20 million in a newly opened AI & Cyber lab where it tests out AI solutions for customers using NVIDIA's technology.
Lee majored in both biology and economics, in part because her English was less than perfect and she wanted to avoid writing and speaking in class.
Her Korean parents named her Thai because she was born in Thailand.