Pierre Chen – Billionaire

• Chen chairs Yageo, electronics component maker whose parts are found in everything from mobile phones to tablet PCs to cars.
• Avid art buyer has works by Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon.
• His mountain home has spectacular views of Taipei.

Pierre Chen net worth: Pierre Chen is a Taiwanese businessman and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $2 billion. Pierre Chen is the Chief Executive Officer of Yageo Corporation. He was trained as an engineer and made his money from the electronics component maker Yageo he founded in 1977. Chen’s passion is for art and he is one of the leading Asian collectors of Western contemporary art. He owns works by Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, and Mark Rothko. His oil painting by artist chen Cheng-po fetched $4.5 million and he has 74 paintings featured in an exhibition in Japan. Pierre Chen has three children and lives in Taipei, Taiwan.

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