Sun Hongbin (born 1963) is a Chinese-American businessman.[1] He is the founder, chairman, and majority owner of Sunac.
Early life
Sun was born in Shanxi province in 1963.[2]
Sun received his undergraduate education at the Wuhan Water Conservancy and Electric Power College (which merged into Wuhan University in 2000) and graduated in 1981.[3] He earned a Master of Engineering from Tsinghua University in 1985. Sun also attended a six-week advanced management program at Harvard Business School in 2000.[4][2]
Career
Sun is the chairman and majority shareholder of Sunac, the Chinese property group.[5]
In 1992, he was jailed in China following an embezzlement conviction which was later overturned.[5]
In October 2017 he was ordered to do "26 hours of re-education in corporate governance" after being censured for having broken the listing rules of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.[5]
Personal life
Sun has citizenship of the United States, and lives in Tianjin, China.[4][2] He is married with two children.[2]
References
- 乐视网股东大会文件披露：孙宏斌为美国国籍 www.sohu.com, retrieved 2022-07-12^
- Bloomberg Billionaires Index - Sun Hongbin Bloomberg.com, retrieved 10 April 2018^
- 孙宏斌下一步的投资逻辑-市场行情 -中国网地产 house.china.com.cn, retrieved 2022-07-12^
- Forbes profile: Sun Hongbin Forbes, retrieved 15 October 2019^
- Ben Bland. Sunac chairman Sun Hongbin sent to re-education classes Financial Times, 27 October 2017, retrieved 11 April 2018^