Engineer's tuition centre raking in the big bucks

TNP PHOTO: NURJANNAH ZULKIFLI

Mr Kong Yew Kiin, the 33-year-old co-founder of Advocators Education, once sold air purifiers before entering the private education industry

Mr Kong, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from the National University of Singapore, was also involved in several joint ventures involving life-skills coaching which failed.

But 20 months after starting Advocators Education, he made his first million.