Leo KoGuan

$8.98B
as of 01/18/26

About Leo KoGuan

Leo KoGuan is founder and chairman of $15 billion (gross sales) IT provider SHI International, which his ex-wife Thai Lee, also a billionaire, runs as CEO.

Leo, who once claimed to be Tesla's third largest individual shareholder, is now an Elon Musk critic and says he's sold a chunk of his shares.

He posted on X in November that he was "no longer all-in-Tesla" and instead accumulating 3-month Treasury Bils.

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.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

IT provider

Residence

Singapore, Singapore

Marital status

Divorced

Birth date

02/15/55 (age 70)

Number of children

1

Education

Master, Columbia University; Law Degree, New York Law School

Self-made

self-made

Leo KoGuan’s fortune is worth

150K

troy ounces of gold

138K

median U.S. household

90K

median U.S. income

0.18%

U.S. credit card volume

0.036%

GDP of the United States

0.026%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

The law school at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China was named after him in 2008 after he pledged $30 million.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | TSLA-US

Tesla

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