Leo KoGuan
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- IT provider
- Industry
- Technology
- Residence
- Singapore
- Education
- Columbia University (Master)New York Law School (Law Degree)
- Marital Status
- Divorced
- Children
- 1
Assets
- Tesla6,920,000 shares @ --TSLA-US
Biography
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.
About
KoGuan bought Singapore's largest penthouse at Guoco Tower's Wallich Residence from UK billionaire James Dyson for about $50 million in 2020.
The law school at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China was named after him in 2008 after he pledged $30 million.