John Tu

John Tu Biography

John Tu is a Chinese-born American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of Kingston Technology.

Biography

John Tu was born in Chongqing, China and grew up in Taiwan. He studied electrical engineering at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in Germany, then moved to California.

In 1982, he co-founded Camintonn with David Sun. in 1986, they sold it for $6 million and founded Kingston Technology. In 1996, they sold 80 percent of the company to Softbank for $1.5 billion, before buying it back in 1999 for $450 million.

He has supported Erin Gruwell's Freedom Writers and the Freedom Writers Foundation. In 2011, he donated $1.2 million to give every first year medical student at UC Irvine an iPad. He plays drums with his band, JT and California Dreamin'. As of September 2011, he is the 400th richest person in the world, and the 130th richest in the United States. He is worth US$ 2.8B. He is married with two children, and he lives in Rolling Hills, California.

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