MS VIOLET LIM is co-founder and CEO of Lunch Actually Group, set up in 2004.
Today, Lunch Actually is Asia’s biggest premier lunch dating company with regional presence in five countries and the largest lunch dating membership base. Together with husband Jamie, Violet also founded eSynchrony to fill the gap in the market for trusted online and offline dating service platforms, and LunchClick, a dating app for serious daters.
Violet sits on the board of Matchmaking Institute and is executive director and principal trainer of Matchmaking Institute of South East Asia. She also serves as an executive committee member of Entrepreneurs’ Organisation (EO) Singapore and is the President-Elect Nominee. She was the first Asian to be certified by the Matchmaking Institute in New York City, and has appeared in countless media locally and internationally.
Violet has a Master’s degree in Industrial Relations and Personal Management from the London School of Economics, and she read law at the University of Manchester. In 2010, Violet published a bestselling book titled “Lessons from 15,000 First Dates” and is currently working on her second.
Violet has two young children, Corum and Cara. Having been blessed with a fulfilling marriage and enriching family life, Violet’s life goal is to create 1,000,000 marriages through the works of Lunch Actually Group!