Andre Lee
| Andre Lee | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 16, 1963 New York City, New York, United States |
| Residence | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Nationality | |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts (1985) |
| Alma mater | Colgate University |
| Occupation | |
| Known for | Creating the Asian bond market and co-founding the first invention capital private equity fund. |
Andre Lee (born January 16, 1963) is a French-Canadian-Korean executive, entrepreneur and financier from New York City, New York. He is the chief executive officer of Snowflake Innovations and Technology Reserve. He formerly served as co-founder and managing director of the Invention Development Fund at Intellectual Ventures. Lee is best known for "largely pioneering the Asian junk bonds market" as the head of Peregrine's bond department. In 2011, Lee founded Snowflake Innovations, a private holding company focused on designing and spinning out new business models and strategic platforms in financing intangible assets. He blogs on a range of subjects related to innovation at Innovation Unleashed.
Andre Lee was born in New York City to a French-Canadian mother and Korean father. When he was five years old, Lee moved to South Korea with his family, where he stayed until he returned to New York to attend Colgate University in 1981. He studied philosophy and religion and earned his Bachelor of Arts from Colgate in 1985. After graduation, Lee was hired by Juki, a Japanese company that manufactured industrial sewing machines, and was responsible for managing distributors in the garment industry in New York City.
In 1988, Lee became a retail-broker trainee on Wall Street at Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc., which later became Salomon Smith Barney. Lee built relationships and established contacts in Korea and began to establish business with Korean banks. Because of his early success, Lee went to work for Lehman Brothers in their Hong Kong office, where he became a "leading" bond salesman. In Hong Kong, Lee worked as a fixed-income salesman covering Asian fixed-income institutional investors in Hong Kong and Korea. Lee began selling bonds to Korean banks and managed Lehman's fixed income trading relationship with the central bank of Korea and the Asian Development Bank.
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