Toby Chu
Vice-Chairman, President, CEO and Director

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, China, South Korea, Jamaica, Vietnam, India and the Philippines.

In 1994, Mr. Chu implemented CIBT’s China expansion plan by establishing the CIBT School of Business & Technology in Beijing, which owns and operates 68 campuses, teaching centers, joint program locations and recruitment offices globally offering business, technology, vocational trade, health care, travel tourism management and automotive maintenance programs in cities across Asia.

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 2006, Mr. Chu expanded his vision to grow CIBT’s education network beyond China by using Canada as his base, China as the hub, to deliver accredited western education to emerging Asian countries. His objective is to enhance the employability of all CIBT graduates so that they can be sought after by multinational companies operating in their home countries. To complement this vision, Mr. Chu also established several international pathway programs to attract international students to transfer their academic credits to CIBT partner schools in English speaking countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Netherland, Canada and the United States.

To realize his vision of delivering western education to emerging Asia, Mr. Chu structured the acquisition of Sprott-Shaw Community College in 2007, the largest private career and degree granting college in Western Canada with 107 years of operating history, and 24 teaching facilities worldwide. Sprott-Shaw became the core infrastructure, academic resource and content provider for CIBT Education Group.

In 2010, Mr. Chu structured the acquisition of King George International College (“KGIC”), one of the largest English training colleges in Canada with 8 campuses in Canada, 6 overseas training centers and representative offices, and 2,500 recruitment agents in 42 countries. KGIC became the group’s rudimentary English training provider, global recruitment channel and international pipeline for CIBT Group’s network of career and degree granting colleges in China and Canada.

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 CIBT was named in the “Top 100 Public Companies in British Columbia”. Other awards include: 'Succeeding Profiles of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs' in 1997, one of Canada’s Fastest Growing Company in Canada in 1993, 2003, 2009, 2010. In 2008, CIBT was named “Top 2 Best International Prep College in China” by sohu.com, Top 5 Sino-Foreign Colleges in China” by edu.qq.com; “Top 10 Most Influential Sino-Foreign MBA Programs in China 2004 and 2007” by China’s Executive Weekly Magazine, and Top 5 TSX-Venture Listed Companies by the TSX-Venture Exchange in Canada in 2008. In 2010, CIBT was ranked Top 100 Public Companies in BC and Top 500 Largest Publicly Traded Companies across Canada by Report on Business magazine.