Cindy Lee (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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]