Career
At the age of 15, he started work as a labourer in a scrap metal yard sorting out non-ferrous scrap metal. He worked as Regional Director of Asia operations for Phibro for ten years. In the early 1970s, he founded his first company, Metal Ore Asia, in Hong Kong.
He sold it to Phibro in 1972.
In 1986, with $100,000 of his own money, he started the Noble Group. In 1997, due to lacklustre trading of the company on the Hong Kong exchange, the company was listed on the Singapore Exchange.
lieutenant has over 35,000 shareholders globally, with offices in five continents and over 15,000 employees.
