David Sun

Net Worth: $17.4 Billion

Chinese Name: 孙大卫

Ancestral Home: Taiwan

Age: 74

Nationality: American

Main Industries: Computer Hardware, Technology

Co-founder and COO of Kingston Technology, the world's largest independent maker of computer memory products. Born in Taiwan in 1951, he immigrated to the United States and met his longtime business partner John Tu in a Los Angeles basketball league in 1978. The pair founded memory device maker Camintonn in 1982 and sold it for $6 million in 1986, only to lose their savings in the 1987 Black Monday crash. They then founded Kingston Technology, which grew into a dominant force in memory modules and storage, with $14.4 billion in revenue in 2024. Sun controls a 50% stake in the company alongside Tu, and he and his wife run a foundation supporting education for under-served youth in the U.S. and Taiwan.