Goh Peng Ooi is a Malaysian businessman and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $1.5 billion. Goh Peng Ooi is the first Malaysian tech billionaire. His career started out in 1989 working at IBM. Ooi’s company Silverlake Axis is publically traded in Singapore and provides financial software for almost half of the banks in Southeast Asia.
Goh is the seventh of 10 children and the only one of them who graduated from college. Ooi started off studying nuclear physics but switched over to electrical engineering. Goh Peng Ooi lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is married with two children.
| Net Worth: | $1.5 Billion |