Cindy Lee (businesswoman)

{{short description|Canadian businesswoman}}

Cindy Lee is a Canadian businesswoman who founded T&T Supermarket, the largest retail grocery chain in Canada that sells Asian foodstuffs. She became president and CEO in 1993.{{cite news|last=Werb|first=Jessica|title=inShare Cindy Lee|url=http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/top-stories/2009/11/04/cindy-lee|accessdate=25 May 2012|newspaper=BC Business|date=November 4, 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321203337/http://www.bcbusinessonline.ca/bcb/top-stories/2009/11/04/cindy-lee|archivedate=21 March 2012}} Lee retired as CEO in 2014 and was succeeded by her daughter, Tina Lee. Cindy Lee sits on T&T Supermarkets' board of directors. Her other daughter, Tiffany Shao-Chin Lee, is corporate counsel for online grocer Thrive Market in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite news |date=2019-06-16 |title=Tiffany Lee, Alan Pham |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/16/fashion/weddings/tiffany-lee-alan-pham.html |access-date=2023-05-12 |issn=0362-4331}}

Biography

Lee was born in Taiwan, one of eight children in a family of entrepreneurs. She studied accounting at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan and immigrated to Canada in 1976. She worked as a bookkeeper, and has been married to her husband Jack since 1978. They have three children.{{cite book|last=Ebner|first=David|title=A dynasty built on instinct|work=The Globe and Mail |year=2009–2010|publisher=Globe and Mail|location=Vancouver|pages=1–2|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/a-dynasty-built-on-instinct/article4187359/}}

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