Rank #1829
Lee Dong-chae
Net worth $2.3B
Chemicals · South Korea
- Born
- Oct 01, 1959
- Age
- 66
- Source
- Chemicals
- Residence
- Cheongju
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Lee Dong-chae is the founder of EcoPro, a chemicals group that he started in 1998.
- EcoPro BM, a unit of EcoPro, is South Korea's largest producer of cathodes for EV batteries by capacity.
- In 2022, a joint venture between EcoPro BM and Samsung SDI, Samsung's battery arm, completed construction of the world's largest cathode material plant by capacity.
- In 2023, Lee was sentenced to a two-year prison term and fined 2.2 billion won ($1.7 million) for insider trading. He maintained his innocence and was pardoned in 2024.
- Lee returned to EcoPro after the pardon, but did not resume the chairman position that he stepped down from in 2022.
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