Singapore’s iconic tech entrepreneur, Sim Wong Hoo, died yesterday (4 January, 2023), aged 67. RIP.
Sim Wong Hoo has won accolades from industry and government for his innovations and entrepreneurship. Photo: Creative Technology.
Sim Wong Hoo co-founded Creative Technology with Ng Kai Wa in 1981 and has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Office since inception.
Following Sim’s demise, the Board of Creative Technology has, during this transition period, appointed Lee Kheng Nam, Lead Independent Non-Executive Director, as acting Chairman, and Ng Kai Wa, Independent Non-Executive Director, as acting Vice Chairman.
The Board has also appointed Song Siow Hui, President of the Company’s Creative Labs Business Unit, interim Chief Executive Officer.
Achievement and Recognition (from Wikipedia)
Sim Wong Hoo has won accolades from industry and government for his innovations.
He was awarded the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star) by Singapore in 2001 for outstanding achievements in the business field.
He was named in second spot as Asia’s Businessman of the Year in January 2001 by Fortune Magazine.
At age 45, he became the youngest billionaire in Singapore.
He was also the first person to be named Singapore’s Businessman of the Year twice, in 1992 and 1997.
In 2002, he was named Person of the Year by the Singapore Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the IT industry.
He was such an inspiration for aspiring technopreneurs in Singapore.
Indeed. I still remember the Cubic 99 customised PCs he sold when I was still a teenager.
Wow that predates me!
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I still remember how the sound blaster transformed the landscape for sound on the pc
When I was studying in the UK, I asked my Bulgarian friend what I could get him from Singapore after the Chrismas holidays. He asked for a Sound Blaster – the sound card that had taken the world by storm and seeded Sim’s entrepreneurial success. That was how sought-after the Sound Blaster was in tech in the early nineties.
RIP