Chief Executive, Kingston Technology Corp.

Kingston Technology Corp. has been a leader in the valuable data storage market for decades and today employs more than 3,000 people and holds a market share above 70% in the DRAM memory market. The company announced in March that it had shipped more than 22 million solid state drives in 2021, outpacing any other company and expanding its market share further in the year’s final quarter. Tu co-founded Kingston in 1987 with current chief operating officer David Sun. Before that, Tu and Sun co-founded computer hardware company Camintonn Corp., which they sold to AST Research Inc. in 1986.

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