Net worth: $1.15 billion Lim Wee Chai is a Malaysian businessman. He is the chairman and founder of Top Glove Group of Companies, which was founded in 1991 and was listed on Bursa Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) on March 2001, and the Singapore Exchange (SGX) on June 2016. He founded a rubber glove manufacturing company and trading business which started with only 1 glove production line. Currently, Top Glove has emerged to be the world’s largest manufacturer of gloves, with 25% of the world market share, operating 39 manufacturing facilities with a total of 618 production lines across Malaysia, Thailand and China.

Education and Environment

Founded in 2009, the foundation has donated roughly $5 million to various causes, with a focus on education. Recent beneficiaries include several Chinese-medium schools in Malaysia as well as Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, which received $70,000 in 2015 to create a chair for the Top Glove Professor of Chemistry.