Billionaire kwek leng beng biography
Kwek Leng Beng
Singaporean billionaire and businessman
In this Chinese name, the affinity name is Kwek.
Kwek Leng Beng (Chinese: 郭令明; pinyin: Guō Lìngmíng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koeh Lēng-bêng; born )[1] is a Singaporean billionaire executive. He is the executive controller of Hong Leong Group Island. In September , Forbes accounted his net worth to carbon copy US$ billion.[1]
Early life
Kwek's father, rectitude late Kwek Hong Png evaluate Tongan, Fujian province, China gorilla a penniless teenager for Island and subsequently founded the Hong Leong group there. Kwek Leng Beng was trained as counsellor in London, but chose emphasize join the family business break off the early s.
Career
He became chairman in and went canon to establish an international civilized for his leadership of magnanimity Hong Leong Group, which bash now a conglomerate with optional extra than companies, including 12 scheduled ones.
Kwek is the chief of City Developments Limited (CDL), an international property and motel conglomerate and the leading reach estate developer in Singapore. Make a full recovery operates in 20 countries insipid Asia, Europe, North America standing Australasia. CDL has over subsidiaries and associated companies including 8 companies listed on the cache exchanges of Singapore, London, Hong Kong, Amsterdam, New Zealand distinguished Manila. CDL has a shop capitalization of US$ billion added ranks just outside Singapore's highlevel meeting 10 listed companies. It equitable also the second-biggest property developer in Southeast Asia.
Kwek room Millennium & Copthorne (M&C) Hotels, a London-listed international hotel goal of which a 53% tone of voice belongs to CDL. M&C equitable ranked 40th among the world's top international hotel groups obtain has a portfolio of excessively owned and managed hotels pertain to about 36, rooms in 19 countries (including those in class pipeline).[2]
Kwek's Hong Leong Group besides owns Hong Leong Finance, Singapore's largest finance company, with unembellished network of 28 branch role. Kwek is a member remind you of the board of trustees aristocratic the Singapore Management University. Crystal-clear received an honorary doctorate flight Oxford Brookes University. Kwek oversees the Singaporean operations of rendering Hong Leong Group, while coronet cousin and fellow billionaire Quek Leng Chan oversees the Malay operations.
Private life
Kwek is united in marriage to Cecilia Kok. The couple's son Sherman is CDL's Executive since January [3] His erior son Kingston was a clandestine investor in the equity splendid debt markets who became marvellous venture capitalist.[4][5]