Li Pak-tam

Li Pak-tam, also known as Li Botan, is a Chinese businessman and socialite. He was one of the three primary backers of the American electric car startup Canoo which was spun off from Faraday Future.

Family and personal life He is married to Jia Qiang. This makes him the son-in-law of Jia Qinglin a top Chinese Communist Party official who was the fourth most powerful man in China before his retirement in 2013. Li has two daughters, a daughter named Zidan (Jasmine) Li, and another graduated from Harvard College in 2023. Both Li Pak-tam and Jasmine Li hold Hong Kong residence cards.

Career Li Pak-tam is the founder and former chairman of the board of Beijing Zhaode Investment Co and has also started a number of companies in Hong Kong.

In October 2019, Li's stake in Canoo was revealed by a lawsuit filed by Christina Krause, the wife of co-founder Stefan Krause. Along with Li, Krause and German industrialist David Stern were Canoo's primary backers.