Rank #2414
Koon Poh Ming
Net worth $1.7B
aluminum · Malaysia
- Born
- Nov 17, 1956
- Age
- 69
- Source
- aluminum
- Residence
- Bintulu
- Citizenship
- Malaysia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Bachelor of Engineering, University of Wales
Net worth over time
Biography
- Koon Poh Ming is the executive vice chairman of aluminum company Press Metal while his brother Koon Poh Keong is group CEO.
- They started Press Metal with their three brothers--Poh Tat, Poh Weng and Poh Kong--in the mid-1980s.
- The brothers pooled $50,000 to start the aluminum-extruding company, at a time when Malaysia was in a recession.
- Press Metal is Southeast Asia's largest integrated aluminum producer and competes with Rio Tinto, Russia's RUSAL and the Aluminum Corp of China.
- Poh Ming and Poh Keong, the two biggest shareholders, made the list of Malaysia's richest for the first time in 2017. Poh Weng joined them in 2019.
- Poh Ming launched the company with his brothers by renting a factory in Puchong, Selangor, on the west coast of peninsular Malaysia.
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