A fortuitous booking for model Nikita Sachdev, at a time when she was becoming disenchanted with the industry, introduced her to bitcoin and she has never looked back. What’s your story?  After graduating with a chemistry degree, I decided my passion was really in business. My father had been posted to Singapore at the time and I took the opportunity to study abroad. However, I wasn’t eligible for student loans in Singapore so I had to get a job but I couldn’t get a job there then because I was on a student pass and wasn’t eligible. I felt doomed. …

Xin Hong Transforms Women’s Lives What’s your story?  I came from a broken family. My father was hot-tempered and my mum was a hard headed woman. Since my youth their relationship was awful. Domestic violence often happened in my family. Sometimes we were awakened by their fighting in the middle of night and it was quite scary. Eventually, my mother couldn’t take it anymore so she left home and filed for a divorce from my father. But this did not precipitate the end of our nightmares, it was merely the beginning. My father’s siblings began to bully us and to spread …

Supply chains crisscross the globe and bring together goods, technology, people, innovation, training, and investment to manufacture products that most people couldn’t access, or afford to buy, a few decades ago. Supply chains form the backbone of the global economy. And when times are good and a company’s supply chains are flowing predictably, a lot of management focus is on market growth and cost optimisation. Things don’t always go smoothly and disruptions in our supply lines are common. With mature supply chains, the challenges faced along the nodes of it can often be resolved without customers being aware that their …