Thai Lee
Thai Lee is a Thai-born Korean American billionaire businesswoman, the co-owner, CEO and president of SHI International, reported by Forbes to be the largest woman-owned business in the US. In 2018, was considered the 11th America’s Self-Made Women, with the net worth of US$2 billion.
Thai Lee is CEO of $10 billion (2018 sales) IT provider SHI International, which has 20,000 plus customers including Boeing and AT&T.
Born in Bangkok, Lee grew up in South Korea and moved to the U.S. for high school.
A Harvard MBA, she did stints at Procter & Gamble and American Express.
Lee and her now ex-husband paid less than $1 million for a software reseller in 1989, the predecessor to SHI.
In 2018, Lee joined the board of Sonde Health, an affiliate of bio-pharma company PureTech Health that develops voice-based diagnostic technology.