Name
Wee Cho Yaw
Wee Cho Yaw
Singapore, Singapore
Singapore
banking
$6,500,000,000
267
#267 Billionaires 2019
#6 Singapore's 50 Richest 2018
Wee Cho Yaw is chairman emeritus of United Overseas Bank, Singapore's third-largest lender. UOB was cofounded by his father Wee Khiang Cheng in 1935 as United Chinese Bank.After stepping down as the bank's chairman in 2013, Wee retired as director in April 2018, a position he had held for six decades.Wee's oldest son Wee Ee Chong is UOB's CEO, while younger son Wee Ee Lim has a board seat.The family's property arm Kheng Leong owns, among much else, 45 apartments in the Nassim, a luxury condo, acquired for $290 million.
The Wees control Haw Par, maker of the iconic Tiger Balm Chinese ointment.Wee's grandson Wee Teng Wen is the cofounder of the Lo & Behold Group, which owns more than a dozen restaurants and the Warehouse Hotel.
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