Shu Li

Shu Li is a Chinese-American corporate executive and engineer. He has co-founded several companies in the semiconductor and biotechnology sectors, including Jazz Semiconductor, Cellular Biomedicine Group, and Helio Genomics.

Prior to his entrepreneurial work, Li held management and executive positions at Intel, Motorola, AlliedSignal (later Honeywell), and Conexant Systems.

Early life and education Li was born in Beijing, China, to parents who were geologists and faculty members at the China University of Geosciences. During the Cultural Revolution, his family's assets were seized by the state, and Li was sent with his mother and sister to a labor camp in Jiangxi, where they lived for six years from age 9 to 15. In 2007, Jazz Semiconductor was acquired for $260 million by Acquicor Technology, a special-purpose acquisition company led by Steve Wozniak and Gil Amelio. Li resigned from the company following the merger in June 2007.

Following his career in the semiconductor industry, Li established an investment firm, J&J Investments, to focus on healthcare, biopharmaceuticals, and clinical diagnostics startups. The company merged into EastBridge Investment Group and subsequently listed on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol CBMG in 2014. WA Health Center International / iKang: Li founded WA Health Center International, a clinical services network operating medical centers in Shanghai and Beijing, which merged with the NASDAQ-listed iKang Healthcare Group in 2015. He serves as the Executive Chairman of the company's board.

Affiliations and philanthropy Li serves on the Executive Advisory Board for the Paul Merage School of Business Administration at the University of California, Irvine. He has also acted as an institutional advisor to the chancellors of UC Irvine and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).