F orrest Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean billionaire who is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Sea Ltd., a Southeast Asian technology conglomerate that has become one of the region's most valuable companies. With an MBA from Stanford, Li founded the company, initially named Garena, in 2009 as an online gaming platform.

He has since transformed Sea into a diversified internet giant with three main business pillars. Garena remains a dominant force in online gaming, particularly as the publisher of the global blockbuster mobile game, *Free Fire*. He also launched Shopee, which has become the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia, and SeaMoney, a rapidly growing digital payments and financial services business. He took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017, and its massive growth has made him one of the wealthiest people in Singapore.