ASK Jonas Samuelson about his favourite household appliance and the chief executive of Electrolux, the Swedish home appliance giant, does not hesitate for a moment. Electrolux's CombiSteam range...
KRISTO Kaarmann, chief executive of payments fintech Transferwise, celebrates Christmas a little differently from most Europeans.
FOR a scientist, Leslie Lamport - winner of the 2013 Turing Award, widely considered the Nobel Prize for computing - has a somewhat unusual way of describing his day job. "I do two things. I'm a...
WORK in a call centre, fielding calls from time-pressed and typically irate clients, is typically dismissed as a dead-end, tedious job. But Dan Watkins, Asia Pacific chief executive of JPMorgan...
IN A world where just about every sector is facing disruption, ageing too has not been spared.
"PASSIONATE" is a word IBM chief marketing officer Michelle Peluso uses often - to describe how she feels about the vast amounts of new data and technology available to marketers; about Agile as a...
VICTORIA Espinel's appointment as CEO of BSA | The Software Alliance in 2015 is widely seen as a sign of how the focus of the global software industry has shifted from just protecting intellectual...
IN AN age of job-hopping millennials, Alistair Elliott, senior partner and group chairman of Knight Frank, jokes that he must come across as really dull to some of his younger colleagues for...
TO HAVE a conversation with group co-CEO of Chinese juggernaut Ping An Group Jessica Tan is to speak in terms of multiples and scale.
JEAN-MARC Chery is back in his old seat in Singapore after more than a decade. The 59-year-old president and chief executive of Franco-Italian semiconductor group STMicroelectronics was posted to...
ONE interesting aspect of technology usage and understanding in this millennium is that it has outgrown the late 1990s' stereotype of something that only smart but nerdy folks, wearing big black...
