Pierre Chen

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Pierre Chen
Born1958 (1958)
Taiwan
NationalityTaiwanese
Alma materNational Cheng Kung University
OccupationBusinessman

Pierre Chen or Chen Tie-Min (born 1958) is a Taiwanese art collector and businessman. He is the founder and Chairman of Yageo Corporation, which deals with electronic domains and makes electronic components for mobiles, automobiles, laptops and desktops, and key electronic devices. He was listed at number 550 in the 2021 Forbes list of billionaires in the world and at number 9 in Taiwan.[1]

Biography[]

Chen grew up in Kaoshiung in a middle-class Taiwan family. He received a BS degree in engineering from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.[2] He founded Yageo in 1977.[3][4]

Chen is the owner of 47 sales offices, 40 manufacturing sites, 20 R&D centers worldwide and was in charge of in Yageo's day-to-day management.

Art collection[]

Chen is well known as an art collector, having collected since 1976.[5] One of the paintings in his collection is Tamsui, an oil painting by Japanese-period Taiwanese artist Tan Ting-pho. The painting was purchased for $4.5 million (NT$144 million), setting a world record for a ‘NT $100 million’ purchase of an oil painting by an ethnic Chinese artist.[6] Chen's art collection is administered through the Yageo Foundation.[7][8]

Personal life[]

Chen had a son and twin daughters from his ex-wife. He secretly married Rosamund Kwan in 2014, due to worries that his two daughters would not be happy with his remarriage. Because of his refusal to go public with the marriage and Kwan not wanting to be his secret wife, they divorced in 2015 after eight years of being together.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracechung/2021/05/05/taiwans-50-richest-2021-buoyed-by-an-export-boom-fortunes-soar-amid-the-pandemic. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ "Pierre Chen: Executive Profile & Biography - Bloomberg". www.bloomberg.com.
  3. ^ "Pierre Chen". www.forbes.com.
  4. ^ Tudor, Alison (6 April 2011). "Yageo's Founder, KKR Launch Offer" – via www.wsj.com.
  5. ^ "Pierre Chen - ARTnews". www.artnews.com.
  6. ^ "Chinese painting sets record price - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com.
  7. ^ "Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure: - The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto". www.momak.go.jp.
  8. ^ The Economist. Economist Newspaper Limited. 2011.
  9. ^ hermesauto (2015-11-04). "Actress Rosamund Kwan finally admits she's married - and divorced - billionaire art collector Pierre Chen". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2020-10-16.

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