Professionally known as Jay Y. Lee in the west, Lee Jae-Yong is the son of the Chairman of the Samsung Group, Lee Kun-Hee.
The Crown Prince of Samsung, as referred by the media in South Korea, attended Harvard Business School for five years as a PhD student in Business Administration but did not complete. He started working in 1991 as the Vice President of Strategic Planning of Samsung Group and later became the CEO for Samsung Electronics as well.