1. About Jeffrey Cheah Fook Ling :
- Jeffrey Cheah Fook Ling is the founder and current chairman of the Sunway Group, a Malaysian conglomerate operating in 12 industries with core businesses in property and construction.
- Jeffrey Cheah is Foundation Chancellor of Sunway University in Malaysia. He is also a Founding Trustee of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation.
2. Net worth : $1.3 billion as of June 18th, 2021.
3. Before Sunway Group : He worked as an accountant in a motor assembly plant and in 1974, he started his own company, a small tin-mining company with a startup capital of RM100,000
4. Parents Name : Cheah Fah (father)
5. Spouse : Susan Cheah Seok Cheng. They had 3 children.
6. Occupation : Businessman.
7. Education : He moved to Australia to pursue a business degree at Victoria University (then Footscray Institute of Technology) in Melbourne.
8. Sunway City : The development of Sunway City (also known as Bandar Sunway in the Petaling district of Selangor State) at the heart of Sunway Group has won the township international awards, including recognition as Malaysia’s first fully integrated green township by the Green Building Index (GBI) of Malaysia.
9. Sunway City also received the Low Carbon City award from the Malaysian Institute of Planners for implementing low carbon initiatives within the township
10. Cheah partnered with Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in order to enable Malaysian students to pursue a preparatory year at Sunway College before being admitted to study at Monash
11. In recognition of Tan Sri Jeffrey’s contribution in the field of social safety and security, he was appointed the Chairman of the MCPF Selangor Chapter by the Minister of Unity, Culture, Arts & Heritage in Aug 2008.
12. Honors : Cheah is the recipient of 10 honorary doctorates, most of which are in recognition of his outstanding contribution to education.
13. Business Awards : Property Man of the Year in 1993 by FIABCI, Malaysian Chapter; CEO of the Year in 1996; Asia’s Most Innovative Chinese Entrepreneur Award in 2005; Chairman & co-founder of Asian Strategy And Leadership Institute; Paul Harris Fellow Award; Fellow Australian Society of Certificate Practising Accountants; Fellow of Institute of Directors; Lifetime Achievement Luminary Award in 2016; Asia’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2019.
14. Philanthropic activity : Since 2018, Cheah has donated almost US$39 million to scholarships and educational causes through his eponymous foundation.
15. Quote : One of the personal hallmarks of Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah is his conviction that “one should give back to the community it serves”
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