Wong Yip Yan

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Wong Yip Yan
Born1946 (age 77–78) [1]
Other namesY.Y. Wong
CitizenshipSingapore
Organization Wywy Group of Companies
SpouseGeok Choo [2]

Wong Yip Yan (Chinese :黄业仁; pinyin :Wáng Yèren), also known as Y.Y. Wong, is a Singaporean Chinese businessman, and founder of the Wywy Group of Companies. [1] [3] [4] According to Businessweek, the Wywy Group controlled 76 companies and had annual sales of over $900 million. [1]

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Career

When Wong was 26, he became the first Singaporean director at Borneo Company Limited, a British trading company. Wong said his boss told him that a Chinese couldn't get promoted to the company's main board of directors, causing Wong to start his own business. [1]

To start the Wywy Group, Wong got funding from executives of Fujifilm, who had worked with Wong at Borneo. They helped him get a credit line of $178,000 from The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, which allowed him to start the Wywy Group as a distributor of copy machines. [1]

Wong was the chairman of Yeo Hiap Seng, Singapore's largest drink manufacturer. [5]

Family

Wong is married and has three grown children. [2] Wong's oldest son, Dr. Wong Meng Ee, contracted retinitis pigmentosa when he was 11 years old. [1] The condition resulted in permanent blindness. Dr. Wong Meng Ee is currently the president of the Retinitis Pigmentosa Society Singapore. [6]

Wong is the brother of Wong Yip Chong and uncle of Wong Meng Cheong. Meng Cheong is a prominent Singaporean physician who famously took his father's mistress to court over his $7 million house after his passing. He ultimately lost his case against his father's mistress. [7]

Education

Wong is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Y.Y. Wong Owns 76 Companies And He's Still Hungry". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Directors". The International Forum. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Company Overview of Wywy Group of Companies". Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "Dr Yip-Yan Wong". Wolfson College. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "TEA FOR TWO". Asiaweek. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "About Us". Retinitis Pigmentosa Society Singapore. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "Sons lose $7 million house to father's mistress". Asia One. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
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