Joel is a Malaysian entrepreneur, speaker, and investor. He is the founder of Groupon Malaysia and was the International Vice President of Groupon Asia Pacific. He is currently the founder of Fave Group in Asia Pacific.
His first business venture at 20, was a fast-growing student agency set-up. In 2007 he participated in The Firm, Malaysia’s first corporate reality television programme on ntv7 and became the show’s inaugural winner. In 2008 he started a business venture called Youth Asia, a social technology company known for the creation of a few technology startups, including YouthSays (which later on rebranded itself to Says Sdn Bhd) and GroupsMore, which was acquired by Groupon in 2010.
In 2012 he won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Emerging Entrepreneur category in Malaysia. He was named as one of Asia’s Top 10 entrepreneurs as well as Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum in 2013.
Fave Group (previously KFit Group) is one of the fastest growing Online-to-offline commerce (O2O) company in Southeast Asia. Started in April 2015 as a fitness sharing platform; Fave Group has expanded to include various other verticals including Food & Restaurants, Beauty & Wellness, Lifestyle & Activities and more.
