Wang Wei (Dick Wang)

Wang Wei (Dick Wang) — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: founded SF Express in the early 1990s to serve Hong Kong-bound manufacturers in Guangdong's Shunde district, built it into a major logistics conglomerate, and remains its chairman and majority shareholder. The profile is grounded in the 1 sources indexed for this founder.

Wang Wei (Dick Wang)'s role is documented as: founder and Chairman of SF Express / SF Holding Wikipedia states 'He remains chairman and majority shareholder of the Chinese conglomerate SF Holding', with net worth estimated at $15.3 billion 'as of August 2026' (research date: 2026-08-23).

Wang did not attend university; he began his career in print and dyeing factories in Shunde, Guangdong, a manufacturing hub with easy river access to Hong Kong, where factories needed to get samples to Hong Kong-based buyers quickly -- a logistical need that led to SF Express's founding in the early 1990s.

Wang moved to Hong Kong with his family at age 7 and attended primary and secondary school there before returning to work in Guangdong's manufacturing sector.

SF Holding founder Wang Wei was separately appointed as a non-executive director to the board of J&T Global Express, a rival logistics company, according to reporting cited in search results (not independently fetched in full in this pass).