Dr Sehoon Lee

After graduating with a Wharton MBA and working at Citibank, Lee returned to South Korea as finance director for HanGlas Group, which had been co-founded by his father amid the devastation of the Korean War. At that time, the company had annual of sales of US$35 million. By 1995, Lee was the CEO, and HanGlas was a billion-dollar corporation. To further shore up its global competitiveness, in 1998 Lee expanded a business association with Saint-Gobain Group, a French-based glass and building materials giant, into a full strategic alliance. Lee has served as chairman since 2000.