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Chu Jenn Weng (Chinese: 朱振荣; pinyin: Zhū Zhènróng; born 7 January 1970) is a Malaysian Chinese entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, as well as the managing director, president and CEO, of ViTrox Corporation Berhad.

Early life and education
Chu was born on 7 January 1970 in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, in a Chinese family. Chu’s father was a technician repairing televisions, radios and other electronic products. Chu helped his father to do soldering when he was a kid. He liked to dismantle, repair and assemble things and even climbed up to the rooftop of some two-storey buildings to install antennas for his dad’s customers.

After his father failed in his business when Chu was in primary school — SJK (C) Chi Hwa, his mother began to work at a local kopitiam selling noodles and beverages. Throughout his primary and secondary school years, Chu had become a helper to his mother at the kopitiam and studied there while working.

Beyond the completion of STPM at Chung Hua High School Seremban, Chu received offers from universities in Taiwan and Singapore, as well as Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He didn’t have enough money to study abroad, so USM became the only realistic option. With the scholarship granted by Kuok Foundation, Chu crossed the states and furthered his undergraduate studies, majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at USM in Penang, Malaysia.

In 1990, during his sophomore year, Chu received a 20-year-old birthday present from his mother. Knowing that Chu has always had an interest in photography, his mother bought a second-hand Pentax SLR analogue camera from a kopitiam customer for RM50.

As a poor student, Chu didn’t have money to attend classes for learning how to take good photos, he could hardly afford the camera film rolls that cost RM3.50 each. With a strong passion, he went to the library to read books and develop knowledge and skills in photography. He spent most of the pocket money from his scholarship to buy film and develop photos. Since then, Chu fell in love with photography, little did he realise that the skills he acquired later became instrumental in his future career.

Chu graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from USM in 1993. He then received his Master of Science in Image Processing from USM in 1998.