Nelson & Terence Loh

THEY ARE COUSINS IN BLOOD, but brothers by nature. Ever since they were kids, Nelson and Terence Loh did everything together, so it was only natural that when they left their respective investment banking jobs in 2008, they would go into business together. Born two years apart, Nelson, 38, and Terence, 40, set up the investment vehicle Dorr Group (named after Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan - their favourite characters in the heist movie Ocean's Eleven) which manages over US$4 billion in assets.

But their real passion lies in the Novena Global Lifecare Group which they started in 2010 to offer no-frills, affordable aesthetics treatment to a booming middle-class population across Asia. Their disruptive formula worked, as Novena is now the largest medical aesthetic chain in Asia with over 100 clinics treating more than two million patients in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, India and Malaysi…