Martin Lau

Martin Lau is the president of Chinese multinational investment holding company Tencent. He became a billionaire for the first time in 2017 after Tencent shares jumped by a third over the previous year. Beijing-born Lau grew up in H.K. and was educated in the U.S. He left Goldman Sachs to join Tencent as chief strategy and investment officer in 2005.Lau expanded the Tencent empire with an agreement in 2016 to acquire up to 84% of Finnish mobile-game-maker Supercell--a $10.2 billion transaction.He sits on the board of several overseas-listed mainland companies, such as e-commerce giant JD.com.