Pan Shiyi

Pan Shiyi — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: co-founded SOHO China with wife Zhang Xin in 1995, building it into one of China's leading real estate developers known for landmark Beijing office projects, then resigned as chairman in September 2022 -- after a failed 2020-2021 attempt to sell the company to Blackstone -- to focus on philanthropy and the arts, having since relocated primarily to the United States. The profile is grounded in the 2 sources indexed for this founder.

Pan Shiyi's role is documented as: co-founder of SOHO China; resigned as chairman effective September 7, 2022, remaining an executive director Confirmed resigned as SOHO China chairman effective September 7, 2022 per a stock exchange filing reported by the South China Morning Post; Wikipedia states he and Zhang Xin 'have since been primarily active in the United States' (research date: 2026-08-23).