Hakka - Prominent Hakka - Entrepreneurs and Corporate Figures

Entrepreneurs and Corporate Figures

  • Cheong Fatt Tze 張弼士/张弼士 (1840-1916; Dabu, Guangdong), Powerful industralist in South-east Asia who contributed to the interests of Overseas Chinese during China's Qing Dynasty and Republican era
  • Aw Boon Haw 胡文虎 (1882-1954; Yongding, Fujian; born in Burma) and Aw Boon Par 胡文豹 (1888-1944; Yongding, Fujian; born in Burma), Philanthropists of Haw-Par Villa, Tiger Balm fame
  • Yong Koon 楊坤/杨坤, Founder, Royal Selangor, Malaysia
  • Lee Loy Seng, Kuala Lumpur Kepong (KLK), Malaysia
  • Raymond Chow 鄒文懷/邹文怀 (1929-; Dabu, Guangdong; born in Hong Kong); Founder, Golden Harvest; Producer who launched the careers of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Tsui Hark
  • Tjong A Fie, (1860-1921), Chinese Businessman and Philanthropist who built a large plantation business in Sumatra
  • Woon Wing Yip 葉煥榮/叶焕荣 (1940-; Dongguan, China; born in China; Hakka pronunciation: Yap Fon Yin), Founder, The Wing Yip Supermarkets, United Kingdom; First Chinese tycoon in United Kingdom
  • Prajogo Pangestu (Phang Jun Phen) 彭雲鵬/彭云鹏 (1944-; born in Indonesia; Hakka pronunciation: Pang Yun Pen), Timber tycoon, Indonesia
  • Alan Yau 丘德威 (1962-; born in Hong Kong; Hakka pronunciation: Hiew Tet Wui), Founder, Wagamama restaurant chain, Hakkasan and Yauatcha, United Kingdom
  • Khun Bantoon Lamsam 伍捷仆 (Meixian, Guangdong), Founder, Kasikorn Bank (Thai Farmers Bank), Thailand
  • Robert Wan 温惠仁 (Guangdong; born in Tahiti, French Polynesia; Hakka pronunciation: Vun Fui Yin), Pearl producer (See Robert Wan Pearl Museum)
  • Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah 謝富年/谢富年 (Dongguan, Guangdong; born in Malaysia; Hakka pronunciation: Chia Foo Ngen), Founder and chairman of The Sunway Group of Companies, Malaysia
  • Murdaya Poo (Meixian, born in Indonesia) Chairman, Berca Group, politician & tycoon.
  • Michael Lee-Chin (born in Jamaica), Chairman and CEO, AIC Limited, one of Canada's largest mutual fund companies

Read more about this topic:  Hakka, Prominent Hakka

Famous quotes containing the words corporate and/or figures:

    The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    The figures of the past go cloaked.
    They walk in mist and rain and snow
    And go, go slowly, but they go.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)