This is the information about him from Wikipedia for a start.
Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar bin Syed Nor Al-Bukhary was born in 1951 and he is one of the respectable corporate figures in Malaysia. He hails from the same place of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, the state of Kedah.
Syed Mokhtar started his business in Johor in the 1990s dealing in rice. Today, his business empire has grown into areas such as plantation, property development, construction, engineering, power generation, infrastructure and ports.Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary is the sixth richest man in Malaysia with RM 2 billion of wealth.
Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary is currently the richest bumiputra corporate figure with many interest in diversified business areas which include transportation and logistics, plantations, property development, defense and armory as well as engineering and power generation.
Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary was born into a mid-low class family in north of peninsular Malaysia; whose house was without necessities and luxuries. His highest education was only until form five, and he never went to university. But that doesn't mean he's lacked of knowledge. A whole lot of his knowledge and experience was gained through his own entrepreneurship experience during his youth time.
Due in part his family's mediocre-to-poor background, Syed Mokhtar al Bukhary had to step into the working world in his early life, while pursuing his primary and secondary studies. Syed Mokhtar helped his mother planting and selling vegetables in the market and also selling roti canai. His numeric knowledge was used to help his father in doing daily book keeping.
After finishing school, Syed Mokhtar helped his father in breeding cow business but only to see the business washed away by foot and mouth disease. Nevertheless, he took over the business and start over by selling meats. He then move on to packaging the meats and start selling them wholesale. His determination paid off and the business started to take off.
As his determination starting to skyrocket, he quickly moved to expand into diversification of other businesses. His next big move was in the logistics business, with initial goal to transport their trading materials. More success followed and he moved to rice trading business. He worked even harder after awarded the rice trading license from Lembaga Padi Negara, and was later awarded successions of supplier contract government-linked corporations. As the saying goes, 'the harder you work, the luckier you get'.
He currently holds a share in Malaysia Mining Corporation Berhad (MMC), BERNAS, Malakoff Berhad, Johor Port Berhad, Impian Teladan Sdn Bhd and many others. Even becoming the talk of the country, Syed Mokhtar, most of the times tried to lay low. He is rarely available for press interview and remains elusive in the world of publicity. Instead, he focuses his work on philanthropist's work and is passionate with his charity foundation under the name of al-Bukhary Foundation.
Al-Bukhary Foundation helped to build Islamic Art Muzium valued at RM70 millions as well as building many mosques and charity establishments in Kedah, Perak and across the country."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Sri_Syed_Mokhtar_Al-Bukhary
2007-03-18 02:31:26
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