Barry Lam is the founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide. He is also a major patron of the arts and a leading philanthropist in the area of culture and education. In 2009, Forbes named him as the 450th richest person in the world and 4th richest in Taiwan with a net worth of US$1.6 billion. Barry Lam was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. His father was an accountant for the Hong Kong Club.

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  • Barry Lam is the founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide. He is also a major patron of the arts and a leading philanthropist in the area of culture and education. In 2009, Forbes named him as the 450th richest person in the world and 4th richest in Taiwan with a net worth of US$1.6 billion. Barry Lam was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. His father was an accountant for the Hong Kong Club. He studied engineering in Taiwan, graduating from National Taiwan University with bachelor and master degrees in electrical engineering. In 1973, he and some former classmates founded Kinpo, a manufacturer of handheld calculators. As president of the company he built it into the largest contract manufacturer of calculators. In the late 1980s, he became convinced that notebook computers would be the next big product. He left Kinpo and founded Quanta Computer in 1988. He set up Quanta Computer with the help of a colleague C. C. Leung with capital of less than US$900,000. It had a turnover of NTD777 billion in 2007, US$23.7 billion. Barry Lam is recognized as a leading visionary in the high-tech field. A combination of engineering talent, innovative thinking and entrepreneurial skills, has enabled him to build Quanta into one of the biggest high-tech companies worldwide. In 2006, Fortune Magazine recognized Quanta as one of the Fortune Global 500 Companies, and in 2007, Forbes placed Quanta 15th in its ranking of the world's most admired computer companies, the highest ranking of a Taiwanese company. Quanta designs and manufactures for clients such as Apple, ACER, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Sharp Corporation, Siemens AG, Sony, Sun Microsystems, and Toshiba. It is the largest manufacturer of PC notebooks worldwide and it has also diversified into servers, storage, and liquid-crystal display terminals.
  • 林百里（1949年－），台灣企業家，廣達集團創辦人、總裁。香港晶門科技非執行主席。
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  • Barry Lam is the founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide. He is also a major patron of the arts and a leading philanthropist in the area of culture and education. In 2009, Forbes named him as the 450th richest person in the world and 4th richest in Taiwan with a net worth of US$1.6 billion. Barry Lam was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. His father was an accountant for the Hong Kong Club.
  • 林百里（1949年－），台灣企業家，廣達集團創辦人、總裁。香港晶門科技非執行主席。
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  • Barry Lam
  • 林百里
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