SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR

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TAN SRI SYED MOKHTAR AL-BUKHARY

He was born in Alor Setar, Kedah in 1951. Come from a poor and uneducated family.  He dont have SPM because their family do not had money to pay examination fee.Her father name  Syed Nor Al Bukhary  and her mother name  Sharifah Rokiah Syed Mohamed Rahmat. Before deciding to settle in Kedah, his father traveled to Central Asia for trade. After that his, father move to Thailand. In the mid-40s, then the parent Syed Mokhtar decided to settle in Alor Setar, Kedah. In 1946, his father married. When 9 years old, syed mokhtar al bukhary are move to live with his uncle Syed Omar in Johor Baru until Form Two. Then go back to school in Kedah in Saint Michael's School.

He involve into business by helping her mother sell vegetables. After that he got involved in the field of transport companies and used to start rice business He also established a joint venture with two Chinese businessmen, namely Ng Ghiak Gee and Chua Chong Tan. Ghiak Gee is rice traders while Chong Tan also rice millers. Syed Bukhari hold 52% stake and Ghiak Gee and Chong Tan respectively 32% and 16%. The joint venture company named as Bukhary Sdn. Bhd on July 15, 1976 and operates in the office in Jalan Telok Wan Jah. Sign Bukhary Sdn. Bhd., He began his sugar business and now stands at RM250 million.   

He also involve in many type of business likes food, banking, shoes and clothes, army clothes supplier and the big tender that he get from Malaysia government is to involved in Tanjung Pelepas Port. Besides that, he also hold shares in East Coast Highway which build highway connections from Karak to Kuala Terengganu. He also holds a stake of 22.7% in Malakoff Berhad, the IPP ie electricity supply company and Gas Malaysia. 20 per cent stake in IJM Corporation Berhad in which its main business is manufacturing.  In transportation, Syed Mokhtar Al – Bukhary  hold the share through the company DRB-Hicom Bhd. (DRB) and hers, buy car company Lotus from Proton Holdings Bhd at RM1.29 billion.

Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al – Bukhary also involve in charity when he founded Foundation (Islam) Al-Bukhary in 1996. He also offer Albukhary Tuition Program in 2001, a total of 500 tuition centers have build. He also set up a private university, Albukhary International University (AIU) in Alor Setar, Kedah in 2010 and AlBukhary Medical Center Complex in Alor Setar AlBukhary

equipped with a dialysis center and has 36 units hemodialysis machine for free. Through al Bukhary Foundation, 20 mosques were built.

ROBERT KUOK HOCK NIEN

According to Forbes his net worth is estimated at $10.5 billion on Feb 2012, making him the richest person in Malaysia. Robert was the youngest of three brothers, born on 6 October 1923, in Johor Bahru. His father arrived in Malaysia from Fujian, China on the 20^th century. Work as a office boy and after graduation he work as a clerk in the rice-trading department of Japanese industrial conglomerate Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha between 1942 and 1945, in Singapore, a conglomerate which with the help of Japanese military unit monopolized the rice trade in Malaya during the occupation period. After the world war end, he use the experienced he learn from Japanese to handle family business in Johor.

Kuok and  his two brothers and a cousin Kuok Hock Chin founded [Kuok Brothers Sdn Bhd] in 1949. Their business focus on agricultural commodities. In 1959, Kuok formed Malayan Sugar Manufacturing Co. Bhd. together with two prominent Japanese partners. He have a good relationship with Japanese after world war. He also brought many influential Malay elite into his company as directors and shareholders which include UMNO politician and Malay royalty. Kuok was granted a monopoly of sugar production in Malaysia. In 1961, he made a coup by buying cheap sugar from India before the prices shot up. He continued to invest heavily in sugar refineries, controlled 80% of the Malaysian sugar market with production of 1.5 million tonnes, equivalent to 10% of world production, and so earned his nickname "Sugar King of Asia".

Besides that, he also involved in hotel business like Shangri-La Hotel and invest in many countries like Philippines, Thailand, Mainland China, Indonesia, Fiji and Australia. He also the ownership of Beijing World Trade Centre and have ten bottling companies of coca cola.

TONY FERNANDES

Tony fernandes or his real name Anthony Francis was born in Kuala Lumpur on 30 April 1964. His father from Goa India and his mother are Malayali (Kerala) Indian. At a young age, he would follow his mother who sold Tupperware at Tupperware parties. He was school at Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur and when he 12 years old he studied at Epsom College and complete his degree in accounting at London School of Economic.

Worked as auditor in Virgin Atlantic and subsequently becoming the financial controller for Richard Branson's Virgin Records in London from 1987 to 1989. Fernandes was admitted as Associate Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in 1991 and became Fellow Member in 1996. He is currently a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He also formerly a Warner Music executive in Malaysia.

Prime Minister  Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in October 2001 has advised her to take over the Air Asia airlines that are experiencing loss and conflict. He take the challenge and  mortgaged his home and used his personal savings to acquire the company, comprising two Boeing 737-300 jet aircraft and debts of US$11 million (RM40 million), for one ringgit (about 26 US cents), and transformed it into an industry player. He success to survive in one year and clear all its debts until now known as the low-cost airlines.

Besides airlines, Tony Fernandes also involves in hotel business known as Tune Hotels. He also a founder Caterham F1 Formula One with began racing in 2010 known as Team Lotus. He also a owner of football team known as Queens Park Rangers after he hold the biggest percentage on stakeholder in the company.

TATPARANANDAM ANANDA KRISHNAN

Ananda Krishnan is  the second wealthiest in Southeast Asia behind Robert Kuok, and number 82 in the world. He born in Brickfields in 1938 and studied at Vivekananda Tamil School and furthered his studies at Victoria Institution. Later, as a Colombo Plan scholar, he attended the University of Melbourne, Australia for his B.A. (Honours) degree majoring in political science. During that time he boarded in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn. Following that, Krishnan obtained Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

In 1990 he involved in business by began building a multimedia empire that now includes two telecommunication companies that is Maxis communication and MEASAT Broadcast Networks Systems and SES World Skies. He also the owner of ASTRO tv channel.

WHY I CHOOSE THIS ENTREPUNER?

I choose this entrepreneur because I believe they have something special in their self. They come from a different background and all of them came from a normal level family and some of them come from poor family like Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary. I believe they are very motivated and they do not easy despair. Besides that, they are always look forward and looks a problem as opportunities to their to making a business. So for me,their personality and successful makes me motivated to be entrepuner because they also a person like me before their successful but which their skills, passion, motivated, and experience can put their in a Malaysia top rich ranking. So for me they are very good person to be followed because for me nothing is impossible.