BIOGRAPHY ABOUT TAN SRI DATO’ SERI DR. TEH HONG PIOW

Tan Sri Dato 'Seri Dr. Piow is one of the richest people in Malaysia. He is the founder and Chairman of Public Bank Berhad, known as one of the banks that are most successful in Malaysia with other countries in the region.

Teh was born in Singapore in 1930 where he studied at the Anglo-Chinese School there where together with his wife, Puan Sri Tay Sock Noy, they are blessed with three daughters and a son. The success of today is the result of hard work and diligence in which he worked and moved way up the corporate ladder in the banking industry.

He started with the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) when he was a bank clerk. Talent and hard work earned him a promotion where within 5 years he became an officer of the bank before moving on to better opportunities with Malayan Banking Berhad as manager. At the age of 34 years, he was promoted to General Manager made him one of the young manager. He would then leave Malayan Banking to start his own company and it is when Public Bank was born.

He is the fifth richest man in Malaysia, where his story of rags-to-riches remains one of the most popular stories told and he remains one of the most prominent people in Malaysia today. His success and the richest but has created a lot of envious eyes where the celebration the 45th anniversary recently been mocked and ridiculed by some leaders in which he equated and compared with Kim Jong-il, the late dictator of North Korea.Welcome shown on YouTube, many criticize the way he celebrates including Khairy Jamaluddin, Umno Youth chief to write on Twitter that the festival is equally those seen in North Korea, but I will not be too concerned as he remains a part of some Malaysians can be proud of his successes and achievements.