Great to watch Doug building his new business up around the region. Doug is hugely well connected and does some great work for charity. What’s your story? My background is that I had successful corporate career, running regional operations of global technology companies. For years, I was a regular speaker …
Read More »Chris Sykes, Client Services Director at Dragon Law
What’s your story? I’m from the great city of Manchester, and I was a practising solicitor before moving to Spain to start a business teaching law and legal English to Spanish law firms. While in Spain I reconnected with an old law school friend, Daniel Walker (Dragon Law’s CEO), and …
Read More »Kevin Gantner, Owner of The Alaska Guys
It’s been great watching Kevin build his business up in Singapore and build so many raving fans for his fantastic seafood. What’s your story? I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and grew up in Alaska. Life has been a wonderful adventure taking me around the world a few times and …
Read More »Kelvin Cheung, CEO of FoodCycle
What’s your story? After my education, I was getting work experience, and ended working a social enterprise start up in London. Through that, I was hooked on the start up culture and decided to launch my own social enterprise called FoodCycle back in the UK. Now, I’m in Hong Kong …
Read More »Karen French, Owner of Karen French Floral Designs
Through knowing Karen I’ve been opened up to a whole new world of floral design I never knew existed. Great to watch what she is doing for brands in this space. What’s your story? I’m a global nomad and grew up in the Middle East countries of Bahrain and Dubai. …
Read More »Albin Lix, Digital Marketing Manager at Digital Business Lab
What’s your story? My name is Albin Lix, I am a French Digital entrepreneur in Hong Kong. After 9 years of successful work in e-commerce project management for several big brands, an e-marketing agency and a digital consulting firm, I decided to move to Hong Kong to launch my own …
Read More »Steph Chu, Women's Leadership Coach
I’ve been lucky enough to start working with Steph on a couple of projects and it is great to see the energy and knowledge she brings to her work. What’s your story? I grew up in a small town in Sabah, Malaysia, which had 3 main roads and not …
Read More »Jorn Middelborg, Managing Director of Thavibu
What’s your story? I came to Bangkok more than twenty years ago to work with UNESCO. We were developing educational programmes in the region in non-formal education, literacy, and adult education. It was an exciting and challenging job, though in the end I felt I’d like to do my own …
Read More »Noritaka Kobayashi, Founder & CEO of Diixi
I have twice had the privilege to go and present at Noritaka’s event ‘Chaos Asia’. As the name suggests, it is chaotic, eclectic, but a lot of fun. What’s your story? In 2012, I came to Singapore and set up two companies called Diixi and Yourwifi. My mission is to …
Read More »Kim Inglis, Managing Director of Tour Spin Golf
HSBC recently bought out a report stating: “The trends which will shape the future of golf are the same trends that are shaping the future of the planet: the shift towards Asia, the increasing feminisation of the public world, urbanisation, the spread of digital technology, and resource and sustainability pressures. …
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