Iwan Sunito, Crown Group CEO
Building a Legacy

When a woman came up to him after an event in Surabaya last April, Iwan Sunito, 49, never expected her to say that her son was one of his biggest fans. Iwan asked to meet her son, so along came this 12-year-old clad in black, his 8-year-old brother traipsing behind him. "Pak Sunito, when I grow up I want to be a property developer like you," the boy said.

Iwan was somewhat taken aback that a school boy from his hometown knew him as the CEO of one of the biggest real estate companies in Australia, the Crown Group. He asked the boy why he wanted to have a career in property and received a simple answer; because property prices would always go up and never come down. "I was even more surprised when he asked me to be his mentor," exclaimed Iwan, a father of three.

October 20, 2015