David U. Lee

David U. Lee is a Chinese-American Hollywood film producer and entrepreneur best known for co-producing the films The Forbidden Kingdom, Shanghai, and Inseparable. He is the President of the film entertainment company, Leeding Media, which he founded in 2008.

David U. Lee was born in Taipei, Republic of China in 1975. He earned both his BA and MBA degrees from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He started his film entertainment career as an intern in the Los Angeles office of Miramax Films in 1997. In 1999, he joined Sony Pictures Entertainment in the Strategic Planning and Corporate Development department. In 2000, David was recruited by Revolution Studios as one of the company's initial 20 employees. In 2002, he took a hiatus from the entertainment industry to pursue a MBA degree while working at K1 Ventures, a private equity fund based in Singapore and Boca Raton, Florida. Upon completing his MBA in 2004, David joined IDG Asia, a subsidiary of IDG. There David oversaw IDG's foray in the Chinese film entertainment business, in addition to launching the Chinese version of Variety Magazine. In 2007, David was recruited by Harvey Weinstein to become the Executive Vice President of Asian Operations at The Weinstein Company, where he oversaw the company's Asian business as well as its US$285 million Asian Film Fund.

In 2007, David co-founded SDJS/Havenwood Media and produced Already Dead, an action-thriller starring Til Schweiger, Ron Eldard and Academy Award winning actor Christopher Plummer, which was distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. David was also a Co-Executive Producer of the Jackie Chan and Jet Li starring film, The Forbidden Kingdom, which went on to become the most successful China/U.S. co-production in history.

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