Melanie, who was born in Perth, Western Australia, is a proud Filipino. She is the daughter of a Malaysian engineer with Filipino and Sri Lankan ancestry and a teacher who was born in Australia.
She is only 32 years old, yet she already owns a firm, Canva, that is currently valued at $6 billion, up from $3.2 billion last year.
Canva, a multi-billion dollar technology firm, was co-founded by Melanie Perkins, a Filipino-Australian software entrepreneur.
She has risen to third place among Australian women in terms of wealth, according to International Business Times.
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Melanie Perkins, a multibillionaire Australian internet entrepreneur, was born on May 13th, 1987. She is the co-founder and CEO of Canva.
She went to Sacred Heart College, a high school in the Sorrento neighborhood of northern Perth.
Perkins attended the University of Western Australia after high school, specializing in communications, psychology, and business.
She was one of the richest women in Australia with a net worth of $1.3 billion.