Michael Lee-Chin
Day job:
Chairman and CEO of Portland Investment Counsel and Chairman of Portland Holdings Inc., and National Commercial Bank of Jamaica.
Born:
Port Antonio, Jamaica
How old were you when you moved to Canada?
19
First job in Canada?
Bouncer
Net worth?
$1-billion
Signs of promise?
Short on tuition, wrote to the Jamaican prime minister and asked him to “invest in Jamaica’s future.”
Street cred?
Ranked 701 in the latest Forbes Billionaire List.
Do you give back?
Donated $30-million to the Royal Ontario Museum in 2003, giving it the eponymous crystal.