Lee Joo-sung | |
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이주성 | |
Born | |
Alma mater |
University of Chicago Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings |
Board member of | SeAH Steel Holdings SeAH Steel Corp. |
Lee Joo-sung ( Korean: 이주성; born 1978) is a South Korean businessman. [1] He is the President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings, a large Korean steel conglomerate, since January 2022, and the largest shareholder of the company. [2] [3]
Lee Joo-sung was born in 1978, in Seoul. He is son of the current SeAH Group chairman Lee Soon-hyung and grandson of the corporation's founder Lee Jong-deok. This makes him a third-generation descendant of the conglomerate, together with his cousin Lee Tae-sung. He majored in Economics and East Asian Languages & Civilizations in the University of Chicago (2001) and received an MBA from Columbia University in 2011.
He took a leading role as Senior Executive Vice President in SeAH Steel in 2018, after SeAH Steel Corp. demerged into two separate entities. [4] In January 2022, Lee was promoted to President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings. [2]
In the present, Lee is actively diversifying the company activities by investing in renewable energy in UK, Denmark and other European Countries. [5] Lee created the UK-based subsidiary SeAH Wind and negotiated with the British government the construction of the world's biggest offshore wind power facility. [6]
Lee Joo-sung | |
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이주성 | |
Born | |
Alma mater |
University of Chicago Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings |
Board member of | SeAH Steel Holdings SeAH Steel Corp. |
Lee Joo-sung ( Korean: 이주성; born 1978) is a South Korean businessman. [1] He is the President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings, a large Korean steel conglomerate, since January 2022, and the largest shareholder of the company. [2] [3]
Lee Joo-sung was born in 1978, in Seoul. He is son of the current SeAH Group chairman Lee Soon-hyung and grandson of the corporation's founder Lee Jong-deok. This makes him a third-generation descendant of the conglomerate, together with his cousin Lee Tae-sung. He majored in Economics and East Asian Languages & Civilizations in the University of Chicago (2001) and received an MBA from Columbia University in 2011.
He took a leading role as Senior Executive Vice President in SeAH Steel in 2018, after SeAH Steel Corp. demerged into two separate entities. [4] In January 2022, Lee was promoted to President and CEO of SeAH Steel Holdings. [2]
In the present, Lee is actively diversifying the company activities by investing in renewable energy in UK, Denmark and other European Countries. [5] Lee created the UK-based subsidiary SeAH Wind and negotiated with the British government the construction of the world's biggest offshore wind power facility. [6]