Faculty Profiles : Yong Lee
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Lecturer in Law
Biography
Prof. Yong Lee graduated from UCLA majoring in Accounting in 1969 and joined Alumax Inc. (Aluminum Company), beginning as a Corporate Accountant and subsequently working as an Assistant CFO.
After 10 years at the company, he founded Bruin Electronics Inc. in Silicon Valley, manufacturing original equipment for IBM, Apple, etc.
In 1989, Professor Lee set up the largest petrochemical company in the Philippines under the investment of International Finance Corporation (World Bank) and American Chemical and Tapes.
He obtained his Graduate Degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and after an early retirement from corporate life, taught Corporate Finance and Accounting at Metropolitan State University at Denver, Colorado for a decade.