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Chairman of Elentec
Lee Se-yong
Left Samsung to Build a KRW 1 Trillion Company, Driving New 'Home ESS' Business
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Last Updated on Oct 24, 2024
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Chairman of Elentec
Life Summary
Lee Se-yong is the Chairman and CEO of Elentec.
He is the founder of Elentec, a company that supplies mobile phone cases and battery packs to Samsung Electronics.
Lee was born on January 26, 1949.
He graduated from Kyungshin High School and earned a degree in Electronic Engineering from Kyung Hee University.
After graduating from university, Lee worked at Samsung Electronics before founding an electronic components company, Samil Precision Industry (now Elentec), in 1978.
Over the past 40 years, he expanded Elentec’s business to include storage batteries, camcorder batteries, mobile phone cases, and small battery packs, growing it into a major electronics component manufacturer with annual revenue nearing KRW 1 trillion.
In the 2020s, Lee has focused on diversifying the company’s business into new sectors, including e-cigarettes, medium-to-large battery packs, and mobility battery packs.
Lee also identifies home energy storage systems (ESS) as a key future growth driver, given the expanding renewable energy market.
#LeeSeyong #Elentec #SamsungElectronics #ElectronicsManufacturing #BatteryPacks #ESS #EnergyStorage #CorporateGrowth #NewBusiness #KoreanBusiness #Entrepreneur
He is the founder of Elentec, a company that supplies mobile phone cases and battery packs to Samsung Electronics.
Lee was born on January 26, 1949.
He graduated from Kyungshin High School and earned a degree in Electronic Engineering from Kyung Hee University.
After graduating from university, Lee worked at Samsung Electronics before founding an electronic components company, Samil Precision Industry (now Elentec), in 1978.
Over the past 40 years, he expanded Elentec’s business to include storage batteries, camcorder batteries, mobile phone cases, and small battery packs, growing it into a major electronics component manufacturer with annual revenue nearing KRW 1 trillion.
In the 2020s, Lee has focused on diversifying the company’s business into new sectors, including e-cigarettes, medium-to-large battery packs, and mobility battery packs.
Lee also identifies home energy storage systems (ESS) as a key future growth driver, given the expanding renewable energy market.
#LeeSeyong #Elentec #SamsungElectronics #ElectronicsManufacturing #BatteryPacks #ESS #EnergyStorage #CorporateGrowth #NewBusiness #KoreanBusiness #Entrepreneur