Lip bu tan biography for kids

American businessperson

Lip-Bu Tan (Chinese: 陈立武; born November 12, 1959) is a Malaysia-born American executive and entrepreneur presently the Chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm.^[3]

Early life and education

Born in 1959 in Muar, Johor, Federation of Malaya (in modern Malaysia) to a Malaysian Chinese family,^[4][5] Tan grew up in Singapore.

He graduated from Nanyang University with a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in physics.^[6] Tan later completed a Master of Science in nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.^[4] Tan began his doctoral studies in nuclear engineering at MIT.

However, after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the subsequent sharp reduction in opportunities in the nuclear industry, Tan left MIT and moved to the University of San Francisco in California, where he graduated with a Master of Business Administratio