SHI International Corp. (commonly referred to as SHI), headquartered in

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, and the United Kingdom. SHI has amassed 15,000 customers, including companies such as

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and

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. SHI operates two integration centers in

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(Knox – 305,000-sq. ft. and Ridge – 400,000-sq. ft.), along with three international integration centers (Nexus in the U.K., Tiel in the Netherlands, and Tampines in Singapore).

History

SHI was founded on November 1989 by

Thai Lee Thai Lee (born 1958) is a Thai-born Korean American billionaire businesswoman, the co-owner, CEO and president of SHI International, reported by ''Forbes'' to be the largest woman-owned business in the US. In 2019, she was the 5th wealthiest Se ...

and

Leo KoGuan Leo Koguan is an Indonesian-born Chinese American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He is the chairman and co-founder of SHI International Corp and was the third-largest individual shareholder in Tesla, Inc. Biography Leo was born in ...

(co-founder and chairman of the board). In 2016, SHI acquired Eastridge, a

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services provider. In Q1 of 2017, SHI launched AWS Support Services for

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and forecasts, managing over $1 billion in customers’ Microsoft cloud assets in 2017. In 2017, SHI acquired Solutions, Inc. (ESI), the maker of the cloud-based Technology Asset Management (TAM) platform. In 2018, SHI received the

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Technology PC Client Solution Partner of the Year award for its Zero Touch offering. In 2018, Sonde Health Inc., an affiliate of PureTech Health appointed SHI's president and CEO, Thai Lee, to its board of directors. In 2019, SHI signed a seven-year naming rights partnership with Rutgers University's football stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey (now known as

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). In 2020, SHI's

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, office moved into Garza Ranch to keep pace with the company's growth. In 2020, SHI launched Stratascale, a new subsidiary focused on delivering digital agility and technology consulting. In July 2022, SHI was shut down for a week due to a cyber attack. In 2022, SHI Healthcare launched to support America's healthcare providers with their technology needs.

Operations

Public contracts since 2015

In November 2018, SHI won a spot on a 10-year, $3.17 billion blanket purchase agreement from the

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to provide worldwide perpetual licenses and annual subscriptions for Microsoft-made software products to the Defense Department, intelligence community, and

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. In October 2017, SHI achieved Managed Service Provider Partner status from

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. In April 2017, SHI was awarded the NASPO ValuePoint—Cloud Solutions master agreement, which allows the company to offer

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(SaaS),

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(IaaS),

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(PaaS), and

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s to state and local public sector organizations across potentially every state in the US. In February 2017, SHI was named to a $13.7 million contract option to support the

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’s Microsoft software. In 2015, SHI was named to two

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Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V federal buying contracts for groups A and D.

Ownership

SHI is owned by billionaire co-founders and former spouses

and

. Lee is the CEO and president of the company and KoGuan is the non-executive chairman; he is also

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's third largest private shareholder after

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and

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. SHI was the largest Minority and Woman Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) in the U.S. In 2020, it was recognized by

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’ list of America's Best Employers for Women.

References

{{Reflist American companies established in 1989 Information technology companies of the United States Companies based in Somerset County, New Jersey