Lee Yong Ping (Chinese: 李永平, September 15, 1947 - September 22, 2017), a Chinese novelist and translator. Lee Yong Ping was born in British Sarawak (western Borneo, now the territory of Malaysia), and spent his childhood here. As an adult, he left home to study in Taiwan and the United States, and obtained a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Institute of English Literature. His creations are mainly novels, and his works reveal his identification with his own ethnic group and culture, and he continues to dialectize his hometown by writing about Borneo, China, and Taiwan. His representative works include "Jiling Spring and Autumn", "Haitongqing", and "The End of the River". He has won the National Literature and Art Award, the Global Chinese Literature Nebula Award, the Zhongshan Cup Overseas Chinese Literature Award, etc., and was awarded the National Taiwan University Outstanding Alumni Award.
Lee Yong Ping (Chinese: 李永平, September 15, 1947 - September 22, 2017), a Chinese novelist and translator. Lee Yong Ping was born in British Sarawak (western Borneo, now the territory of Malaysia), and spent his childhood here. As an adult, he left home to study in Taiwan and the United States, and obtained a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Institute of English Literature. His creations are mainly novels, and his works reveal his identification with his own ethnic group and culture, and he continues to dialectize his hometown by writing about Borneo, China, and Taiwan. His representative works include "Jiling Spring and Autumn", "Haitongqing", and "The End of the River". He has won the National Literature and Art Award, the Global Chinese Literature Nebula Award, the Zhongshan Cup Overseas Chinese Literature Award, etc., and was awarded the National Taiwan University Outstanding Alumni Award.
1984 - now
Miss
Tan Hooi Ling
陈慧玲
Born
1984
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Occupation
Business Woman
Residence
Singapore
Race
Chinese
Alma Mater
University of Bath (BEng)
Harvard Business School (MBA)
Career
COO of Grab
McKinsey
Eli Lilly
Title
Chief Operating Officer
Known for
Co-founding Grab
Member
Tan Hooi Ling (Chinese: 陈慧玲; pinyin: Chén Huìlíng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Hūi-lêng) is a Singaporean businesswoman. She is best known as the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Singaporean ride-hailing company, Grab Holdings Inc. Tan was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company before she co-founded Grab with Anthony Tan while attending Harvard Business School.
Tan Hooi Ling is the cofounder of Southeast Asia’s first decacorn, super app Grab. The Harvard MBA has led the company with cofounder Anthony Tan in raising over $9 billion dollars since launching in 2012.
Nearly half of that sum came in March when the Singapore-based startup raised $4.5 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Alibaba, Microsoft and 26 other investors, valuing the company at $14 billion. This Series H round aims to raise another $2 billion before the end of the year.
When she was the chief operating officer of Grab, Tan focuses on growing market share in the eight countries and 336 cities where Grab operates. In March 2018, Grab bought Uber’s Southeast Asian operations in a deal worth “several billion dollars,” according to San Francisco-based Uber. As part of the deal, Uber got a 27.5% stake, and its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi gained a board seat in Grab. The acquisition, and Grab’s own expansion efforts, helped it boost its market share in Indonesia—Southeast Asia’s largest market—above 60% (by number of rides) in mid-2018 from just 30% in early 2017, according to New York-based ABI Research.
Tan was born and raised in a middle-class Malaysian Chinese household in Kuala Lumpur by a civil engineer father and a remisier mother alongside an older brother, who is now a computer programmer based in New Zealand. Tan is the youngest of two children in her family who went to state-schools while living in Petaling Jaya.
Raised in Kuala Lumpur, Tan moved to the United Kingdom to attend the University of Bath where she earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. After graduation, she landed a job at McKinsey and Company in Malaysia. McKinsey later sponsored Tan's MBA education at Harvard Business School, where she met future Grab co-founder Anthony Tan. The two would both subsequently move to Singapore in 2014.
Tan’s civil engineering father inspired her to study mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in the UK. After a year as an equipment engineer at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly in London, Tan moved to consulting firm McKinsey back home in Malaysia, which eventually sponsored her for an M.B.A. from Harvard. There she met Grab cofounder Anthony Tan in the class of 2011. Although she took a job with Salesforce in San Francisco after graduation, she spent her spare time developing Grab with Anthony Tan, even using her holidays to go to Kuala Lumpur to build the team.
Eli Lilly
While studying at the University of Bath, Tan took a year off school to do an industrial placement at Eli Lilly in Basingstoke. Her time at the pharmaceutical company taught Tan that decisions were made at the management level and motivated her to change her career trajectory and research graduate finance and management programs in order to incorporate engineering perspectives into business decisions, thus having the power to make changes at the management level.
McKinsey
Despite not knowing what the company did, Tan signed up for an event held by consulting firm McKinsey & Company in Malaysia, eventually landing a job with the company where she performed incredibly well that they sponsored her MBA education at Harvard Business School - where she met fellow Malaysian and future co-founder of Grab, Anthony Tan, in the class of 2011.
Grab
While at Harvard Business School, Tan worked on a business plan with HBS classmate, Anthony Tan, for a "mobile app that connects taxi seekers directly with taxi drivers closest to their location in the chaotic Malaysian urban environment", which would later become GrabTaxi. The inspiration came from Tan's experiences with a lack of safety in Malaysia. When she was working at McKinsey, she and her mom developed a "manual GPS system" to track where she was while she was coming home. Tan would send her mom the car number plates and ping her when she passed any of the large milestones so her mom would know how far away she was. Every night her mom would stay up waiting for her to get back home because back then, when you searched "World's Worst Taxi" the top hit for the few pages was Kuala Lampur, Malaysia.
The pair's business plan was the runner-up in the HBS New Venture Competition in 2011, winning $25,000. Using the proceeds from the competition and their own personal funds, Tan Hooi Ling and Anthony Tan launched the mobile application, first called MyTeksi, in June 2012.
Although the pair had started the company, Tan had to return to McKinsey after graduation to serve out her bond with the consulting firm as a condition of sponsoring her education. She later moved on to San Francisco-based software company Salesforce, while taking time out of her schedule at the company to help out Anthony with Grab in Southeast Asia. She returned to work full-time on Grab in 2015. Upon returning, she took on the title of COO, and focused on 3 key areas - product, human resources, and customer experience. In May 2023, she announced she will step down by the end of the year 2023.
