David Lee

Name: David S. Lee

Born: 1938 in Beijing, China

Computer-related contributions

• Chinese-American business executive and inventor.
• Invented the daisy wheel printer (1969).
• President, CEO and chairman of the board of eOn Communications Corporation, a telecom services company.
• Former president and chairman of Data Technology Corporation, a computer peripheral company.

Honors and awards

• Adviser to Presidents Bush and Clinton on the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiation.
• Chosen to be on the board of the Regents of the University of California (1994).
• First Asian American to enter the corporate suite of one of America's top-5 corporations (1981).