From O levels to chief executive officer

Hong Kong

SHE may not be able to call herself a university degree-holder, but self-made businesswoman Adeline Lee holds an even better title - chief executive officer.

Ms Lee, who completed her O levels and went on to take a part-time graphic designing course at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts while working as a bank teller, was hired by a desktop publishing company, Commercial Print, and posted to Hong Kong as a 21-year-old marketing director in 1986.