The Telegraph, 6 Jun 2011Olivia Lum, founder of water treatment business Hyflux, completes journey from “hunger and poverty” to World Entrepreneur of the Year .
The chief executive of Singapore-based Hyflux has become the first woman to win the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Ms Lum, who collected the award in Monte Carlo at the weekend, pipped 48 entrepreneurs, including Ayman Asfari, chief executive of FTSE 100 oil services giant Petrofac and Howard Lutnick, head of investment banking and brokerage business Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost 658 of its 960 New York-based employees in the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Full story
