WHEN Leong Soo Yee turns up for the virtual interview over Microsoft Teams, the executive director (Markets) of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) "arrives" with her...
Jia Zhangke is feted in arthouse cinema as the pre-eminent filmmaker depicting contemporary Chinese life in feature films and documentaries. On the big screen, he chronicles the personal struggles...
FOR Kevin Samuelson, chief executive officer of technology company Infor, 2020 has turned out to be quite an eventful year. On the personal front, early this year before movement restrictions came...
LIKE many others, Maren Schweizer has been working from home amid the Covid-19 outbreak. The chief executive officer of Schweizer World says that it was initially a little bit tough as she "missed...
THE chief executive officer (CEO) of today - and tomorrow - needs soft skills and cultural fit, among other things. Helping firms find the right leaders is where executive search and consulting...
BACK in January, when the world was blissfully unaware of the disruption Covid-19 would come to wreak in our lives, Professor Wong Tien Yin sketched his vision of a digital future for the...
IN his 27-year career as a banker, Standard Chartered Singapore's chief executive officer Patrick Lee is facing his biggest test of leadership to date as the Covid-19 outbreak continues to shake...
EVEN as e-commerce has largely been a boon for consumers, offering options and convenience previously unimaginable, it has disrupted many industries. Brick-and-mortar retail most notably, but also...
FOR Ben King, Google's Singapore Country Director, it's been a baptism by fire. Soon after his appointment in September last year, Mr King, who has served in different roles for Google in Asia,...
LET'S imagine a world sans Covid-19. After reading her recent op-ed in The Business Times on sustainability investing, I decide that I must have a talk with global strategist Marsha Vande Berg....
CAMILLE Levy's childhood dream was to be a diplomat. Growing up in a family that travelled widely to countries including Syria, Turkey and Israel, she found the idea of working with different...
