Tan Sri Datuk Ooi started his career in 1994 as a Process Engineer in a Penang based company principally involved in packaging of semiconductors for multinational companies.

In 1995, he joined a property development company in Penang as its Marketing & Finance Director where he was responsible for the company’s overall property marketing and finance division. He successfully implemented various innovative marketing programmes which were highly successful with at least 90% sales take up rate. He was later promoted to the position of Chief Executive Officer in 2000.

He left the Penang based property developer in 2001 to pursue his own property consultancy business under Ideal Concept Intelligence Sdn Bhd. However, in year 2007, Tan Sri Datuk Ooi scaled down the property consultancy business with the completion of the last project in Cambodia and started focusing on property development for commercial and residential properties on his own.

Through the management and operations of these property development businesses as well as in his property consultancy business, Tan Sri Datuk Ooi has accumulated over 28 years’ experience within the property development industry.