Patrick Grove
| Patrick Grove | |
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30 April 1975 Singapore |
| Occupation | Co-founder & group CEO, Catcha Group Co-founder, iProperty Group Co-founder and Director, Rev Asia (0173) Co-founder & Chairman, iCar Asia (ASX:ICQ), Co-founder & Chairman, iFLIX |
| Net worth | A$ 587m (May 2016) |
Patrick Y-Kin Grove (born 30 April 1975) is recognised as one of the leading Internet and media entrepreneurs in Asia.
Grove is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Catcha Group, and additionally serves as co-founder and Chairman of Catcha Group portfolio companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, including iProperty Group and iCar Asia. He is co-founder of Frontier Digital Ventures and is also co-founder and a director of Rev Asia, Bursa Malaysia-listed, online media and publishing company.
Between 1999 and 2016, he took five companies from start-up to initial public offering (IPO).
Grove is additionally co-founder and Chairman of Catcha Group's newest business, iflix, Southeast Asia's leading Internet TV service, launched in Malaysia and the Philippines in May 2015, with key Southeast Asian markets, including Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam to follow throughout the year.
His accolades include being named as one of Australia Unlimited: 50 Global Achievers by the Australian Trade Commission, Asia's Best Young Entrepreneurs by Bloomberg Businessweek, Top Entrepreneur under 40 by Business Week Asia, and Global Leader of Tomorrow and New Asian Leader by the World Economic Forum two years consecutively. He served as a judge, alongside Sir Richard Branson, and Steve Wozniak in the 2014 Talent Unleashed Awards, and also on the judging panel for television series Angel's Gate which was broadcast on Channel NewsAsia in 2012. Grove is also a member on the XPrize Innovation board.
Whilst still a student at the University of Sydney in Australia, Grove started two companies. Upon graduating in 1996, he joined Arthur Andersen before leaving in June 1999 to start the dot-com company Catcha.com. In an article in Australia Unlimited, he is quoted as saying: "I wanted to start my own business whilst in college but my parents wouldn’t let me. We made a deal that I would finish university and work at Arthur Andersen for three years before I could do anything I want. I left after two-and-a-half years, as I couldn't resist the urge to move back to Asia to start Catcha."
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