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Lee Thiam Wah
Lee Thiam Wah is a Malaysian billionaire who founded 99 Speed Mart, the country's largest mini-mart chain, taking it public in Malaysia's largest IPO in seven years in 2024.
Lee Yeow Seng
Lee Yeow Seng is a Malaysian corporate executive, Group CEO of IOI Properties Group, the property arm of the IOI group founded by his father Lee Shin Cheng.
Li Cai Meiling family
The Li Cai Meiling family (李蔡美灵家族) is the Hong Kong family behind the Lee Kum Kee sauce group, founded in 1888 and today the world's largest oyster sauce maker.
Lim Goh Tong
Lim Goh Tong (林梧桐) was a Malaysian entrepreneur who founded the Genting Group in 1965 and built Genting Highlands, the hilltop resort holding Malaysia's only casino license.
Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono
Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono is an Indonesian billionaire businessman who founded and controls the Harita Group, a family-owned conglomerate spanning palm oil, bauxite, and nickel.
Lim Hock Chee
Lim Hock Chee is a Singaporean retail entrepreneur who co-founded Sheng Siong, Singapore's second-largest supermarket chain, with his brothers in 1985 and serves as its chief executive.
Lippo Group
Lippo Group is an Indonesian banking-and-property conglomerate founded by Mochtar Riady, now led by the Riady family through flagship PT Lippo Karawaci, with townships, hospitals, and listed arms in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Lodha Group
Lodha Group, formally Lodha Developers Limited and traded as Macrotech Developers until 2025, is a Mumbai-headquartered real estate developer controlled by the Lodha family, listed since 2021 and among India's largest by sales.
Low Tuck Kwong
Low Tuck Kwong, born 1948 in Singapore, is an Indonesian coal tycoon who founded PT Bayan Resources, one of Indonesia's largest coal producers, and became an Indonesian citizen in 1992.
Luis Yu Jr.
Luis Yu Jr. is a Filipino real estate developer who founded and chairs 8990 Holdings, a low-cost housing developer whose DECA Homes brand has delivered more than 100,000 units since 2007.
M. M. Murugappan
M. M. Murugappan is an Indian businessman and chemical engineer who served as Executive Chairman of the Murugappa Group, a Chennai conglomerate, from 2018 to 2020.
M. V. Subbiah
M. V. Subbiah is an Indian industrialist who chaired the Murugappa Group from the mid-1990s to April 2001, converting it into a professionally managed conglomerate.
Mallika Srinivasan
Mallika Srinivasan, born Mallika Sivasailam in 1959, is an Indian businesswoman who chairs TAFE, a Chennai tractor maker selling over 200,000 tractors annually, which she took over in 2011.
Manoj M. Murjani
Manoj M. Murjani is a Hong Kong-born Singapore businessman who co-founded and led the luxury tea company TWG Tea as Chairman and CEO from 2008 to 2012.
Manuel B. Villar Jr.
Manuel B. Villar Jr. is a Filipino businessman and former politician who chairs Vista Land, a major homebuilder, and served as Senate President from 2006 to 2008.
Manuel B. Zamora Jr.
Manuel B. Zamora Jr. is a Filipino lawyer and mining executive who founded Nickel Asia Corporation, the Philippines' largest lateritic nickel ore producer, entering the business in 1969.
Maranda Barnes Bouqdib
Maranda Barnes Bouqdib, known as Maranda Barnes, is an American-born business executive based in Singapore who co-founded the luxury tea company TWG Tea in 2008.
Maria Grace Y. Uy
Maria Grace Y. Uy is a Filipino businesswoman who co-founded Converge ICT Solutions with her husband Dennis Anthony Uy in 2007 and serves as its President.
Mariano Tan Jr.
Mariano Tan Jr. is a Filipino businessman who has been Vice Chairman of United Laboratories (Unilab), the Philippines' largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, since 2008; Forbes estimates his net worth at $425 million.
Martua Sitorus
Martua Sitorus is an Indonesian businessman who co-founded Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil refiner, in 1991, and later built the Gama family group with his brother Ganda.
Masakazu Idemitsu
Masakazu Idemitsu (出光正和) is a Japanese businessman, grandson of Idemitsu Kosan founder Sazo Idemitsu, who has served as a director of the oil refiner since 2019 and leads family shareholder Nissho Kosan.
Masan Group
Masan Group is a Vietnamese consumer goods and retail conglomerate, founded in 1996 and listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange under the ticker MSN.
Megawide Construction Corporation
Megawide Construction Corporation is a Philippine construction and infrastructure company founded by Edgar B. Saavedra, incorporated in 2004 and listed on the PSE in 2011.
Menardo R. Jimenez
Menardo R. Jimenez, born 1932 in Manila, is a Filipino broadcast executive who served as president and CEO of GMA Network from the 1970s until 2000.
MH Hasham Premji
MH Hasham Premji, born Mohamed Hasham Premji, was an Indian businessman who founded Western India Vegetable Products in 1945, the company that became Wipro, and died in 1966.
Michael Bambang Hartono (Djarum)
Michael Bambang Hartono, also known as Michael Hartono, was an Indonesian billionaire who co-owned Djarum, Indonesia's clove-cigarette maker turned conglomerate, and Bank Central Asia with his brother Budi.
Ming Z. Mei
Ming Z. Mei (梅志明), also written Zhiming Mei, is a Singapore-based business executive who co-founded GLP in 2009, is its CEO, and built it into a manager of roughly US$80 billion in assets.
Mochtar Riady
Mochtar Riady, Chinese name Lie Mo Tie, is an Indonesian banker born in 1929 who founded the Lippo Group and built some of Indonesia's largest private banks.
Monde Nissin
Monde Nissin is a Philippine food manufacturer founded in 1979, best known for Lucky Me! instant noodles and SkyFlakes crackers, and owner of British meat-substitute maker Quorn Foods.
Moon Joo-hyun
Moon Joo-hyun (문주현, born 1958) is a South Korean business executive who founded MDM Co. in 1998 and chairs Seoul-based MDM Group.