John-Son Oei is the Founder and Group CEO of EPIC Collective, an ecosystem of companies & platforms that activates everyone to be Extraordinary People Impacting Communities.Believing that “great things can be achieved by masses of people doing small purposeful actions”, EPIC stands for Extraordinary People Impacting Community where its flagship programme is a non profit initiative called EPIC Homes; a system that empowers ordinary people to build sustainable homes for families in as fast as three days, and develop relationships while doing so. Inspired by Lego and Ikea, His idea was developed with the help of friends and over 40 architects, engineers and designers which culminated into a modular building system. Using this building system and developing logistical frameworks to fit a volunteer module, they have built more than 100 homes while working with over 5000 volunteers, from more than 50 countries and over 40 renown organisations , including multinational companies like Prudential, GE, Energizer, Nestle, and Tetrapak, to name a few. EPIC Collective is accompanied by two other companies within it’s group, EPIC Communities, a community-driven developer, and EPIC DNA, an experiential learning and training company specialising in service experiences for personal and leadership development. EPIC’s work has also gone international starting with infrastructure projects in Cambodia while establishing themselves as consultants to organisations from multiple sectors, including the Malaysian government in the areas of community development, civilian mobilisation and capacity building.