 The founder and major shareholder of Modern Education Group is Ken Ng Kam-Lun, who teaches English in Modern Education.In 2009, optimistic that the HK government's education reforms would lead to double-digit growth, it was rumoured that Modern Education, which then had 17 centres, sought to raise HK$800 million to increase the number of tuition centres.The company was the first of its kind to go public when it listed in HKEx in 2011.