Kelvin Teo () is a

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whose first success was a million dollar business venture at the age of 20 while still in university. At age 27, he won Malaysia's first wedding related reality show, Love Me Do. He also co-founded EasyEco International and was a frequent columnist of several local newspapers.

Early years

Education

Born in

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and raised in

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, the capital of

Sabah Sabah () is a state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indonesia to the south. The Federal Territory o ...

, Kelvin Teo did his high school at Kian Kok Middle School and undergraduate at National University of Singapore with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He went on to continue his study at

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and graduated as one of the top 3 students in his course from Materials Science and Engineering. During his time at

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, Kelvin enrolled for a cross-university programme at the Harvard Business School and wrote a research paper on China which identified investment patterns and predicted future trends as well as challenges that Singapore will have to face in its bid to have a bite in the China pie. He also holds an

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with

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Entrepreneurship

Kelvin first success with entrepreneurship was his involvement with Geo-X, the company that he co-founded with his friends in National University of Singapore. As a group, they went on to win Start-Up Singapore Business Plan Competition, Megabucks International Business Plan Competition held in Kanpur and represented

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at Expo-Science International held in

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Easy Eco International

In 2007, Kelvin co-founded Easy Eco International, a start up consultancy company that specialized in clean technology, continuing the work that he has done with Professor

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during his postgraduate study in

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Love Me Do

Kelvin Teo was one of the candidates for

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

's first wedding related reality programme, Love Me Do in 2009. This was the first public voting wedding contest for all

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and

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. Kelvin and his wife Kimberly Yap were voted by the public as the winner at the season finale. In the final, they received a whopping 126,154 votes to win the contest that had attracted 1,850 couples and saw six months of intense competition, public online voting and blogging to decide the outcome. Kimberly wrote on her blog that Kelvin's romantic proposal to her on her birthday has helped them to garner many votes.

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Berjaya Group Berjaya Corporation Berhad (; formerly known as the Berjaya Group Berhad, Inter-Pacific Industrial Group Berhad and Raleigh Berhad) is a Malaysia-based corporation which controls a wide array of businesses, including consumer marketing, Property ...

Hotels & Resorts’ Corporate Director, Marketing & Communications, said that the couple's story in overcoming the obstacles will be an inspiration to others. The couple had won an all-expenses-paid designer beach wedding worth RM100,000 in the contest and appear as ambassadors in

Hotels & Resorts’ future charity programs.

References

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