co-founder and CEO Tan Eng Kee.
Hong Leong Group’s Quek Leng Chan continued to top the list of Malaysian billionaires with an estimated net worth of US$9.7bil.
Globally, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos remained the richest person in the world with US$177bil net worth.
Vincent Tan steps back
TAN Sri Vincent Tan has relinquished his executive role in his flagship Berjaya Corp Bhd, as the founding family began handing over the day-to-day running of sprawling business empire to professional managers led by Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasheed.
Vincent Tan, 69, has remained as chairman of the group.
On Tuesday, Vincent Tan said Jalil, together with his son executive deputy chairman Datuk Seri Robin Tan will be handling the strategic and operational decision-making and planning the future business direction of the BCorp Group.
Monday, 05 Apr 2021 02:34 PM MYT
BY JULIA CHAN
Tan said he was confident that BCorp was under the stewardship of those able to steer it to greater heights. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 Berjaya Corp Bhd s (BCorp) Tan Sri Vincent Tan is stepping aside as executive chairman and relinquishing control of the firm to his son and Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasheed, who was recently recruited to be chief executive officer.
The firm said in a statement that Tan will remain on its board as non-executive chairman, with son Datuk Seri Robin Tan continuing as executive deputy chairman.
06 Apr 2021 / 01:52 H. Vincent Tan is passionate about building affordable homes for Malaysians.
PETALING JAYA: Tan Sri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun will remain on the Berjaya Corp Bhd (BCorp) board of directors as non-executive chairman after resigning as executive chairman yesterday, in line with his vision to transform the group into an institutionalised corporation managed by professionals.
BCorp group CEO Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasheed, who was appointed to the board on March 16, 2021, has been mandated to transform BCorp into a high performing organisation through streamlining the various group businesses to create and enhance shareholders’ value, optimising financial and human resources, improving synergies and efficiency as well as enhancing corporate governance and transparency.