YUNG-TAI CHEN

WHY HIM? Chen started his career selling office clocks, then expanded into furniture and electronics, which his publicly traded Aurora Group now sells at more than 1,500 locations around Taiwan and Mainland China. In 2015 Chen decided to throw his support behind small- and medium-sized charities working around Taiwan by launching the Goodwill Award (the Chuanshan Award), which honours eight organisations every year with a NT$12M (about US$388,000) prize each.