Education
A.C. (before Christ) attended the Chung Ling High School in Penang before his education was disrupted by the Second World War.
Managing Director Singapore head
A.C. (before Christ) attended the Chung Ling High School in Penang before his education was disrupted by the Second World War.
He was the youngest child in a family of three, he had an elder brother who was killed in the Second World War, and an elder sister. By 1962, Aik Choon had become Managing Director of Sim Lim Company Limited, which was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
Aik Choon was instrumental in many of the joint venture industrial enterprises that Sim Lim commenced in that period.
In particular, he was Director of Malayan Shipbreakers Limited. 1961(Singapore"s first ship-breaking company), Chairman of Pan Malaysia Paint Industry Limited (1962-1965), and a founding director of Nippon Paint (South) Company
Pte Limited (1965-1975), National Iron and Steel Mills Limited (1964), Malayan Iron and Steel Mills Limited (1968), Decola (South) Limited, and Director of Sim Lim Investments Limited (nka Pacific Century Regional Development Limited). Aik Choon left Sim Lim in 1969 to start his own company, T. Enterprises Pte Limited, which became a holding company for various joint ventures he started.
Capitalizing on the first wave of Japanese investment into South East Asia in the 1970s, he started numerous manufacturing and trading joint ventures during this period, including Fujitec Singapore Corporation Limited, Hitachi (Singapore) Pte Limited, Hitachi Consumer Products (South) Pte Limited, Nissei Sangyo (South) Pte Limited, Hitachi Consumer Products (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Hitachi Cable (South) Pte Limited, and Toyo Metal Products (South) Pte Limited.
He was also an early investor in the United States real estate market, where he started developing industrial land in Dekalb County, Georgia, through the Atlanta International Industrial Park. In 1987 he started T. Investments, Incorporated. together with Peter East. Chang. The company’s first project was the development of the 36 storey luxury apartments, the Grandview in Buckhead, Atlanta.
In joint venture with China Travel Services, Toh started Clear To Send" first United States headquarters in Atlanta in 1988.
The Atlanta office started organizing group tours from continental United States of America to China in 1989 In the early 80s, Aik Choon was energized by the potential of the China market, and worked relentlessly to bring foreign investors and consultants to the People's Republic of China. In 1984, he started the Tianjin International Technology Consulting Centre ( International Trade Commission) in Tianjin, in collaboration with the Science and Technology Commission.
International Trade Commission became the first sino-foreign joint venture consulting company, with a no-dividend policy for 50 years. He became an honorary citizen of Atlanta and the State of Georgia, and was posthumously awarded honorary citizenship of the City of Tianjin, and the prestigious Friendship Award by the State Department of the People's Republic of China.