Leo Koguan
About Leo Koguan
Leo KoGuan is founder and chairman of $9.5 billion (sales) IT provider SHI International, which his ex-wife Thai Lee, also a billionaire, runs as CEO.
KoGuan, who claims to be the third largest individual Tesla shareholder, voted against Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package in June 2024.
Born in Indonesia, KoGuan received a master's degree from Columbia University and a law degree from New York Law School.
He says his first investment was in Manhattan real estate, which he then sold to buy a software reseller, SHI's predecessor, for less than $1 million in 1989.
At the start of the pandemic market chaos, he sold most of his stock holdings, including shares of Baidu and Nvidia, to buy long-term Tesla call options.
KoGuan paid about $50 million in 2020 to buy Singapore's largest penthouse at Guoco Tower's Wallich Residence from UK billionaire James Dyson.
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The law school at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China was named after him in 2008 after he pledged $30 million.
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