Chew Hock Leong
Singaporean banker (1897–1967)
Chew Hock Leong
Chew Hock Leong (c. 1897 – 19 May 1967) was a Singaporean banker who served as chairman of the Public Service Commission from 1957 to 1959. A prominent figure in Singapore's early financial sector, he served as the general manager of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation. In 1930, when he sold the patent of a flattening device to Eastman Kodak, he was believed to be the first local Chinese inventor to create and sell "an important invention" to a multi-national company.
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