Xiaomi's debut on the stock market makes these men very rich

HONG KONG (CNNMoney) –

Xiaomi's debut on the stock market made a very rich men's group. Shares of the Chinese technology company were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Kong this Monday. They closed about 1% on their issue price, but that did not stop some of the firm's top executives from racking up huge profits for their assets.

Xiaomi is one of the world's leading smartphone manufacturers and the initial public offering estimated it at nearly $ 54 billion.

The CEO, Lei Jun, company founder in 2010 is reaping the greatest reward. Its share of nearly 29% had a value of nearly $ 14,000 million at the close of this Monday, according to an analysis of CNNMoney of the company's information.

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Lei, 48, was already multimillionaire before the IPO thanks to his huge participation in Xiaomi and other investments. He recently received Xiaomi shares worth about $ 1.5 billion for his contributions to the company.

The serial entrepreneur also owns a portion of Kingsoft, a Chinese software company that founded and directed an IPO in 2007. He also launched an online sales company that sold to Amazon for $ 75 million in 2004.

Three of Xiaomi's co-founders also enjoyed tremendous growth in their wealth through the IPO.

President Lin Bin's 12.5% ​​interest now has an approximate value of $ 6,000 million. Like many recent graduates of his time, Lin began his career in technology in the early 1990s as an engineer at Microsoft. Before starting at Xiaomi, he worked for Google in China, helping the company to generate and direct his mobile search in this country and Android application teams.

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Li Wangqiang, former colleague of Lei Kingsoft holds 2.9% stake in Xiaomi. Li is one of the vice presidents of Xiaomi where he heads the team of e-commerce area on which the company depends for its growth in the years to come.

Wong Kong Kat, known as KK among his friends and collaborators, also has a stake of nearly $ 1,500 million. Wong is another former student of Microsoft, where he worked on multimedia content and instant messaging for smartphones Windows. In Xiaomi, Wong manages the WiFi equipment and storage in the cloud of the company.

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