Barry Lam
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Barry Lam (Chinese: 林百里; pinyin: Lín Bǎilǐ; Cantonese Yale: Lam4 Baak3 Lei5; born 24 April 1949) is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Quanta Computer.[1][2] He is also a patron of the arts and a philanthropist in the area of culture and education.[3]
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Barry Lam | |
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Born | (1949-04-24) 24 April 1949 (age 75) |
Nationality | Taiwanese |
Education | National Taiwan University |
Occupation | Businessman |
Known for | Chairman, Quanta Computer |
Spouse | Married |
Children | 2 |
On 25 May 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $5.98 Billion.[4]
Barry Lam was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong.[5] His father was an accountant for the Hong Kong Club.[6] He studied engineering in Taiwan, graduating from National Taiwan University with bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering.[7]
In 1973, he and some former classmates founded Kinpo Electronics [zh],[8] a manufacturer of handheld calculators. As president of the company he built it into the largest contract manufacturer of calculators.[8] In the late 1980s, he became convinced that notebook computers would be the next big product.[9] He left Kinpo and founded Quanta Computer in 1988.[7] He set up Quanta Computer with the help of a colleague, C. C. Leung, with capital of less than US$900,000. It had a turnover of NT$777 billion in 2007, US$23.7 billion.[10][11]
In 2006, Fortune Magazine included Quanta in the Fortune Global 500 Companies,[12] and in 2007, Forbes placed Quanta 15th in its ranking of the world's most admired computer companies, the highest of a Taiwanese company.[13] Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple Inc., Compaq, Dell, Gateway, BlackBerry Ltd., Hewlett-Packard,[14] Alienware, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, MPC, Sharp Corporation, Siemens, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba.[citation needed] It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide[15] and has diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.[16]