Lee Lau General Information

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Mr. Lee Lau is a Co-Founder and Partner at Alignvest Management Corporation. Mr. Lau co-founded ATI Technologies in 1985 and built the company into the world's largest supplier of graphic chips and add-in boards to the personal computer industry. In addition to managing the company, Mr. Lau was ATI's largest shareholder, first employee and responsible for innovation and development of all products. Mr. Lau helped build ATI into a TSX and NASDAQ listed global market leader, with annual sales in excess of $2.2 billion and over 3,000 employees. ATI was sold in 2006 to Advanced Micro Devices for cash and stock consideration of US$5.4 billion. Since then, Mr. Lau has managed his family office investing in a variety of alternative asset products. Prior to founding ATI, Mr. Lau held various design engineering positions with Mitel, Motorola and Plessey. Mr. Lau holds a Masters in Engineering and a BASc from the University of Toronto.