She is the niece of
Loke Wan Tho who established the Motion Pictures and General Investment Co. Ltd. (generally known as MP & GI) in Hong Kong, and who was also the head of the Cathay Organisation in Singapore. She is the daughter of
Kok Leong Chu who ran the Cathay Organisation after the death of Loke Wan Tho in an airplane disaster in the summer of 1964. She has been running the Cathay Organisation since her father retired in 1985.
