Rank #2732
Shirley Kao
Net worth $1.4B
Food & beverage retailing · Taiwan
- Born
- Sep 02, 1956
- Age
- 69
- Source
- Food & beverage retailing
- Residence
- Tainan
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Marymount California University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Shirley Kao owns stakes in Uni-President Enterprises, the food and beverage conglomerate cofounded by her father, Kao Chin-Yen, in 1967.
- She was the sole inheritor of her father's fortune after he died in 2016.
- She has been a board member at Uni-President since 2013 and heads the group's health and beauty-related subsidiaries.
- Her husband, Alex Lo, was promoted to CEO of the group in 2007 and doubled as its chairman after his father-in-law retired in 2013.
- Before Lo turned 60 and stepped down from the CEO post in 2016, he had more than doubled the company's market cap to over $10 billion. He continues to lead the group as chairman.
- Kao and her husband, Alex Lo, were high school sweethearts, but had a second chance at love only after her first marriage failed.
- By that time her father was no longer opposed to her marrying a mainland Chinese descendant.
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