Editing Allen Lee (section)

==Business career==
After his graduation, he worked at the [[Lockheed Aircraft]]'s Electronics Department in California. In 1966, he was appointed by the company to open a branch factory in Hong Kong. Due to a shortage of talented manpower, Lee was invited to serve as the factory's Test Engineer and Training Engineer.<ref name="memory"/>

In 1970, Lee moved on to work for [[Ampex]] as Test Engineering Manager through a friend's introduction and was promised the position of general manager after two years of satisfactory performance. He helped the company to set up a factory in Taiwan and a new Design Engineering Department. In 1973/74, Lee became the first Chinese to have ever been appointed general manager.<ref name="memory"/> During the time when he was general manager, the [[1973 Oil Crisis]] occurred, which resulted in a sharp decrease in the number of orders. He managed to arrange the workers to take a three-day work week and survived the dire situation after half-year.<ref name="memory"/> He also improved the working environment by installing air-conditioning and waxing the floor tiles. He offered the workers a remuneration package with a wage that was 10% above the industry average.<ref name="memory"/>

He left Ampex and became [[Tang Hsiang Chien]]'s business partner in 1985, establishing the Meadville Holdings Limited to produce printed circuits board (PCB). Lee and Tang were then chairman and deputy chairman of the [[Federation of Hong Kong Industries]] respectively. Lee also set up a copper-clad laminate factory in [[Dongguan]] for Meadville.<ref name="memory"/>

Simultaneously, Lee and his ex-colleagues from Ampex set up a trading firm that sold copper foils to manufacturers PCBs and cooper-clad laminates. In 1991, he cooperated with a Japanese buyer and set up Jada Electronics Limited, focusing on selling cooper-clad laminates and copper foils, in which partnership had continued until today.<ref name="memory"/>