Toby Chu
Vice-Chairman, President, CEO and Director, CIBT Education Group Inc.

Mr. Toby Chu is Vice Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CIBT Education Group Inc. (“CIBT”) headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, and Beijing, China. Mr. Chu founded CIBT in 1994 and has since developed the company into an international corporation with offices in Canada and China.

In 1994, Mr. Chu implemented CIBT’s China expansion plan by establishing the CIBT School of Business & Technology in Beijing, which owns and operates 43 campuses and teaching centers globally offering business, technology, vocational trade, health care, travel tourism management and automotive maintenance programs in cities across China, Canada, the Philippines, Vietnam and Jordan.

In 2004, Mr. Chu structured the acquisition of Beihai International College from Weifang University (“WFU”). WFU is the largest state owned university in Weifang city, Shandong province with a population of 90 million people. WFU occupies a modern campus comprised of over 300 acres of land, and 8 million square feet of facilities with approximately 37,000 students. In 2005, Mr. Chu was appointed honorary president of Weifang University by the Chinese government.

In 2007, Mr. Chu structured the acquisition of Sprott-Shaw Community College, the largest private career and degree granting college in Western Canada with 104 years of operating history, and 20 locations worldwide. Most recently in 2008, CIBT initiated its Pan-Asia expansion plan to develop its presence in South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and other East Asian countries.

Mr. Chu and his companies have been recipients of numerous prestigious awards. In 1993, Mr. Chu was recognized as one of the “Top 40 Business People Under the Age of 40” and Capital Alliance Group Inc. (“CAG”), an investment holdings company managed by Mr. Chu, was ranked as the “33rd Fastest Growing Company out of 100 Companies in Canada.” In 1994, Mr. Chu was short-listed to the top 30 finalists among 300 nominees across Canada for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and CAG was named in the “Top 100 Public Companies in British Columbia”. Other awards include: 'Succeeding Profiles of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs' in 1997, the 36th Fastest Growing Company in Canada in 2002, and one of Canada’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in 2003.