Rashid Hussain
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RHB group founder Tan Sri Rashid Hussain is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Malaysia.In less than a decade, he built a financial services conglomerate comprising a stockbroking firm, a commercial bank, a finance company and a merchant bank-RHB Bank. He began his financial services career in 1971 with Strauss Turnbull in Britain and returned to Malaysia in 1975 to work in Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Bhd.He then left Bumiputra Merchant Bankers in 1983 to start Rashid Hussain Securities. Under his stewardship, RHB Securities became one of the leading stockbrokers in Malaysia.
He is married to a daughter of magnate Tan Sri Robert Kuok.
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- The two men behind the banking group The Star.