Christopher Tsai was born on December 20,1974 and is a third-generation, Chinese-American investor and noted art collector.
22 Facts About Christopher Tsai
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Christopher Tsai is the founder of Tsai Capital Corporation, a New York-based investment management firm.
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Christopher Tsai began his career in finance at the age of 11, working for the Christopher Tsai family foundation.
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Christopher Tsai had the opportunity to learn from other Wall Street CEOs like Laurence Tisch, who was his sister's godfather.
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At age 18, Christopher Tsai studied securities analysis at the New York Institute of Finance.
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Christopher Tsai attended Vermont's Middlebury College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and International Politics and served on the Middlebury College Arts Council.
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Christopher Tsai began investing at the age of 11 when he purchased five shares of an insurance company.
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Christopher Tsai used money he made from gardening for the investment and made a $25 profit.
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At the age of 16, Christopher Tsai began informally investing money for friends and business owners he knew from growing up in Greenwich.
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Christopher Tsai is president and chief investment officer of Christopher Tsai Capital, an SEC-registered, value-oriented investment firm headquartered in New York City and focused on the long-term growth and preservation of capital.
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Christopher Tsai founded the company in 1997 at the age of 22 and serves as chairperson of the firm's advisory committee.
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Christopher Tsai is the author of "Investing in an Age of Disruption", in which Christopher Tsai argues that investors continually underestimate the speed at which disruption, or disruptive innovation, transforms business and society.
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Christopher Tsai is the author of "The Power and Challenges of Compounding", in which Christopher Tsai states investors should think long-term and recognize that even the most exceptional businesses go through difficult periods and growing pains.
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Christopher Tsai is the world's largest collector of works by Ai Weiwei.
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In 2006, Christopher Tsai commissioned Ai and the Swiss-based architectural firm, HHF Architects, to design a private residence in Upstate New York that would serve as an exhibition space for the Stockamp Christopher Tsai Collection.
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Christopher Tsai traveled to China and acquired some 50 works by artists including Fang Lijun, Liu Xiaodong, Xie Nanxing, Zhang Huan and Zhang Xiaogang.
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In September 2004, Christopher Tsai published an article in Worth Magazine arguing that contemporary Chinese art was undervalued.
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In 2005, Christopher Tsai reiterated that contemporary Chinese art was undervalued, particularly when compared with contemporary Mexican artists.
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Christopher Tsai has expressed interest in collecting the work of David Hammons and Berlinde De Bruyckere.
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Christopher Tsai prefers that the artwork he buys stays undervalued for as long as possible.
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Christopher Tsai is a third-generation investor whose financial roots date back to World War II.
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Christopher Tsai is a known philanthropist and has been a donor to artistic and environmental causes.