Rank #2362
Lim Kok Thay
Net worth $1.8B
Casinos · Malaysia
- Born
- Aug 16, 1951
- Age
- 74
- Source
- Casinos
- Residence
- Kuala Lumpur
- Citizenship
- Malaysia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Harvard Business School; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of London
Net worth over time
Biography
- Lim Kok Thay is the executive chairman of Genting, a casino and resorts conglomerate with a global footprint. In February 2025, he stepped down as CEO, a role he had held for almost two decades.
- In 2022, Lim's troubled cruise operator Genting Hong Kong, which was hit hard by the pandemic, filed a winding up petition. Lim stepped down as chairman.
- Lim's assets include Empire Resorts, the parent company of loss-making Resorts World Catskills.
- A long-drawn family feud over the empire's wealth and businesses, which include a palm-oil unit, was finally resolved in 2020.
- As part of an ongoing S$6.8 billion ($5 billion) expansion, Genting Singapore is revamping its Resorts World Sentosa, which will include two new hotels, a four-storey retail and dining podium, and a waterfront promenade.
- His late father, Lim Goh Tong, arrived in Malaysia from Fujian, China, in 1937 at age 19 with barely anything to his name.
- Lim also has a stake in Singapore-listed luxury yatch company, Grand Banks Yatchs.
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