Kenny Yap, popularly known as “Kenny the Fish”, is the executive chairman of Qian Hu Corporation

Qian Hu Corporation

Qian Hu Corporation Limited is a Singapore-based ornamental fish service provider, with services ranging from the farming, importing, exporting and distribution of ornamental fish, to their specialty of breeding Dragon Fish . Qian Hu exports more than 500 species and varieties of ornamental fish...

, an ornamental fish specialist company founded in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

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Kenny Yap was conferred the Singapore Youth Award for Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...

 in 1998. Yap also received Spring Singapore’s International Management Action Award 2000. He was named one of the 50 stars of Asia by Business Week in 2001, and went on to receive the Yazhou Zhoukan

Yazhou Zhoukan

Yazhou Zhoukan , literally as "Asia Weekly", is the only Chinese language international affairs newsweekly which has been published for over 20 years...

Young Chinese Entrepreneur Award 2002 and the Ernst & Young Services Entrepreneur Award 2003, among other accolades.

Quote

• "We knew that we were small fish. Small fish have to swim together to survive. Without my four brothers and two cousins, I don’t think there would be a Kenny Yap." — Kenny Yap

External links

• Kenny Yap's E-book, The Rise of An Asian Entrepreneur
• Kenny Yap - Business Week review
• Kenny Yap's profile