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EIA 070 Goh Sok Koon Insights: Unveils the Role of a Company Secretary

EIA 070 Goh Sok Koon Insights: Unveils the Role of a Company Secretary

Goh Sok Koon is a company secretary a vital role in any business in Singapore. I am fortunate to have met her as she has been extremely helpful to me in getting my business up and running. Even before[...]
EIA 069 Neville J McKenzie on Volleyball, Teamwork, and the Podcasters Entrepreneurial Mindset

EIA 069 Neville J McKenzie on Volleyball, Teamwork, and the Podcasters Entrepreneurial Mindset

Neville J McKenzie the usual host of AsiaBizStories Entrepreneurs in Action is asked the questions by Chris Pardey the lead of the Brunel Alumni Association, Singapore . Neville grew up in London. [...]
EIA 068 Kelly Shan Guojiao's Breakthrough Transformation from Nursing

EIA 068 Kelly Shan Guojiao's Breakthrough Transformation from Nursing

Kelly Shan is an experienced healthcare professional in the areas of nursing and public health. She started as a scrub nurse in the operating theatre before transferring to a pre-operative anesthesia [...]
EIA 067 CJ Tan's Evolution: Lessons from a Quality Assurance Director turned Realtor

EIA 067 CJ Tan's Evolution: Lessons from a Quality Assurance Director turned Realtor

CJ Tan is a regular member of the Brunel Alumni Association. He has extensive experience in manufacturing and quality management, including start-ups and high-volume production. He is skilled in build[...]
EIA 066 Stanley Mak: A Multilingual Marketer in Singapore

EIA 066 Stanley Mak: A Multilingual Marketer in Singapore

Stanley Mak is a regular member of the Brunel Alumni Association Experienced entrepreneur with a rich history of working in the marketing and communications industry. Skilled in Inbound Marketing, Dig[...]
EIA 065 Chris Pardey's Journey Through Sports, Charity, and Business

EIA 065 Chris Pardey's Journey Through Sports, Charity, and Business

Chris Pardey is the Brunel Alumni Association Representative in Singapore. Chris grew up and was educated in the UK. He has spent over 40 years working in the commodities industry. Spending 20 years w[...]
EIA 064 Ben Clark Adapting Olympic Potential to Perform

EIA 064 Ben Clark Adapting Olympic Potential to Perform

Ben Clark in 2010 whilst on a break from training for the London Olympics as a swimmer dove into the sea and broke his neck changing his life forever. Despite having 75% of his body paralysed he wa[...]
EIA 063 Mario Ferraro Using Physics to Manage Global Talent

EIA 063 Mario Ferraro Using Physics to Manage Global Talent

Mario Ferraro is a thought leader in the area of Global Talent Management and an active member of the Brunel Alumni Association, Singapore He moved to Singapore in 1998 But his unusual journey b[...]
EIA 062 Laurence Barrett Journey from Engineer to Aerospace CEO and Founder

EIA 062 Laurence Barrett Journey from Engineer to Aerospace CEO and Founder

Laurence Barrett is a pioneering aviation engineer, entrepreneur and active member of the Brunel University Alumni Association. He has worked and lived in Singapore since 2014. His career in aerospace[...]
EIA 061 Chanfang Wang on German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean"

EIA 061 Chanfang Wang on German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean"

Chanfang Wang gave insightful answers, highlighted here, during The November China-Team ChinaWebinar Expert Talk: German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean” Companies saw the moderat[...]
EIA 060 Master Your Supply Chain Challenges 2022 For China Business

EIA 060 Master Your Supply Chain Challenges 2022 For China Business

Christmas time and unreliable Supply Chains don't go well together! Join our latest China Webinar! In the coming year, things are likely to look different. The banking association BdB assumes the st[...]
059 German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean"

059 German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean"

The November China-Team ChinaWebinar Expert Talk: German Manufacturing Machines for Future Chinese “Red Ocean" Companies saw the moderator Xiaolong Hu interesting and informative discussing the Chines[...]
EIA 058 Market Opportunity for German “Green-Tech” Companies

EIA 058 Market Opportunity for German “Green-Tech” Companies

Prof. Peter Sachsenmeier is a strategist, expert in complex technology management, industrial innovator and visionary. He is actively involved in knowledge transfer from research to industry, and comb[...]
EIA 057 How Professor Laurie Underwood is Working in and with China Post Covid?

EIA 057 How Professor Laurie Underwood is Working in and with China Post Covid?

Laurie Underwood is an American professor, author and consultant specializing in cross-cultural business communications She has studied worked and lived in Shanghai since 2002 Together with Prof Jua[...]
EIA 056 Future Leaders in Sino-European Enterprises

EIA 056 Future Leaders in Sino-European Enterprises

Jochen Schultz is the Managing Director and Member of the Board at China Netzwerk Baden-Württemberg, He has been supporting institutions and companies with professional training for 16 years (Schultz [...]
EIA 055 How to Participate in the Boom of the Food and Beverage Market in China?

EIA 055 How to Participate in the Boom of the Food and Beverage Market in China?

Frank Epping in 1995 founded CUP&CINO in Germany. He is still the sole owner and CEO of the company that started with coffee shops. This podcast is a recording of a moderated webinar titled “How[...]
EIA 054 The Hive Podcast Series Learning to Podcast

EIA 054 The Hive Podcast Series Learning to Podcast

Erin Soutar of the Hive Co-working Space Lavender Podcast studio in Singapore reverses the roles on Neville J McKenzie as he is the one discussing his thoughts on podcasting. The Hive has allowed Asia[...]
EIA 053 London Barber Cuts into Singapore

EIA 053 London Barber Cuts into Singapore

Elvis Simon is a barber with 33 years experience as a salon owner and teacher of barbering in London, England. He has also founded the Quality Barbers Association, QBA, which is involved in raising [...]
EIA 052 Scientist to Entrepreneur

EIA 052 Scientist to Entrepreneur

Moses Kakanga was born by Lake Victoria in the old capital Entebbe, Uganda where he attended school before moving to the capital Kampala Makerere University, the oldest university in eastern and centr[...]
EIA 051 The Beginners View on Podcasting

EIA 051 The Beginners View on Podcasting

Ann Morgan is new to the world podcast production and joins Graham Brown the founder of Asia Tech Podcast and myself in our latest conversation recorded in the Asia Tech Podcast studio for the Ask Me [...]
EIA 050 Why You Should Podcast

EIA 050 Why You Should Podcast

Graham Brown is the founder of Asia Tech Podcast. This is our second one on one conversation and was recorded in the ATP studio for the Ask Me Anything Podcast, where we discuss podcasting with a focu[...]
EIA 049 Give the Unheard Entrepreneur a Voice

EIA 049 Give the Unheard Entrepreneur a Voice

Graham Brown is the founder of Asia Tech Podcast. In this conversation Graham tells us about his journey from an AI graduate in the 90’s, when there was no demand, becoming an entrepreneur in several [...]
EIA 048 Feed Camp 2018 Part 2

EIA 048 Feed Camp 2018 Part 2

John Cheng, Aaron Wong and Wynne Peh are three participants of Feed Camp 2018 and we find out the background to their participation The issue and what if a solution is not found stated by John from[...]
EIA 047 The Passionate Coach Training Leaders

EIA 047 The Passionate Coach Training Leaders

Glenn van Zutphen is the founder of VanMedia Group a company he founded over twelve years ago and based on his knowledge of over twenty-five years as an international journalist. The mission he chose [...]
EIA 046 Feed Camp 2018 Part 1

EIA 046 Feed Camp 2018 Part 1

      Virginia Cha and Petrina Lim discuss Feed Camp 2018. Virginia Cha, professor-in-residence at Platform E and Petrina Lim, Head for the Centre for Applied Nutritio[...]
EIA 045 The Urgent Need for Clean Drinking Water

EIA 045 The Urgent Need for Clean Drinking Water

Jeroen van Overbeek is the founder of Social Impakt a social impact enterprise. Previously he spent over twenty years working in manufacturing in Europe and Asia. He then decided he wanted to change t[...]
EIA 044 Kick Starting the Night Garden into Existence

EIA 044 Kick Starting the Night Garden into Existence

Jo Anne Sukumaran initially wanted to be a cellist and auditioned for the Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) at age 12. However this lead to her receiving a full bassoon sc[...]
EIA 043 The Mentee Journey Begins

EIA 043 The Mentee Journey Begins

Muriel Boutin-Becuwe, was an entrepreneur I met a few months after I arrived in Singapore in October, 2016, you can listen to our conversation in episode EIA 032 where she discussed her s[...]
EIA 042 Career Mental Health Love from Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur

EIA 042 Career Mental Health Love from Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur

Craig DeLarge is a digital healthcare executive in the Pharma Industry. In a career that spans over thirty years. His focus has developed into challenging leadership roles that have advanced dig[...]
EIA 041 Liming at the Lime House

EIA 041 Liming at the Lime House

Chris Morris is a Relationship manager & Entrepreneur his previous career roles have been with NHS Trusts and Department of the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs in the UK. This was befor[...]
EIA 040 User Experience: It's More than Just Looks

EIA 040 User Experience: It's More than Just Looks

Wilson Chew is a User Experience designer with a varied background that revolves around the power of the story. He is also a Co-Founder and Content Strategist of REASSEMBLE, a start-up, which came i[...]
EIA 039 Comfortable, Affordable and Eco-Friendly Electric Vehicles

EIA 039 Comfortable, Affordable and Eco-Friendly Electric Vehicles

Christie Fernandez is an Entrepreneur on a mission to create a positive impact in clean transportation & energy in the emerging markets of the ASEAN region, Indian subcontinent, Africa & Sou[...]
EIA 038 Connect Over Coffee to Develop Your Business

EIA 038 Connect Over Coffee to Develop Your Business

Gary Guwe is one of the cofounders of the Business Development Society of Singapore. In the previous podcast, EIA 037, I had conversations his fellow cofounder Gunes Altungunes, and a couple of atte[...]
EIA 037 Entrepreneur Events: The Organiser, The Experienced and The Newbie

EIA 037 Entrepreneur Events: The Organiser, The Experienced and The Newbie

Güneş AltunGüneş, Chris Dawson and Norrapat Shih are three attendees that attended a recent event in Singapore. Güneş AltunGüneş is a Director of Marketing, Chris Dawson is a Director of Business Deve[...]
EIA 036 Supplier and Client Fighting for the Seller Part II

EIA 036 Supplier and Client Fighting for the Seller Part II

Shubham Barat, Anushka Singh, Anchal Gupta and Vipul Srivastava are four of the staff members that work with Abhinav Sharma the CEO and Tanisha Chawla the COO, of the startup FocusDigit. An eCommerce [...]
EIA 035 Supplier and Client Fighting for the Seller

EIA 035 Supplier and Client Fighting for the Seller

  Abhinav Sharma is the CEO and Tanisha Chawla is the COO, entrepreneurs of the startup FocusDigit. An eCommerce platform that provides sellers with end-to-end solution to reach their custom[...]
EIA 034 Experience and Opportunity Creates the Training Solution

EIA 034 Experience and Opportunity Creates the Training Solution

JC Sekar is a cofounder of the startup AcuiZen. A startup that is looking at simplifying training and empower a dynamic and dispersed workforce. JC as he is know has after a career that spans 3 deca[...]
EIA 033 We Launch in Three Hours!!!

EIA 033 We Launch in Three Hours!!!

Adeesh Agarwal, is the founder of the startup dKreator, a furniture marketplace personalised to a buyers preferences. It applies data science to connect buyers 'likes' to a sellers product[...]
EIA 032 The Challenge: the Entrepreneur Who Makes the Hotel Industry's Environmental Sustainability Real

EIA 032 The Challenge: the Entrepreneur Who Makes the Hotel Industry's Environmental Sustainability Real

Muriel Boutin-Becuwe, is a Co-founder of PAPAYAPATHS and Originator of the H3Rs Giveaways Program, a business focused on environmental sustainability and social impact. Muriel previously wor[...]
EIA 031 WordPress to Improve Business; Basic Website Security

EIA 031 WordPress to Improve Business; Basic Website Security

Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and non-profits. This is a follow [...]
EIA 030 Design Passion Leads to Creative Business

EIA 030 Design Passion Leads to Creative Business

Amy Picanço, Is the Managing Director and Founder of Aym Designs. An interior design startup based in Singapore. At heart Amy is a creative but is just as passionate about the business aspects of runn[...]
EIA 029 WordPress to Improve Business; The Mobile Friendly Website

EIA 029 WordPress to Improve Business; The Mobile Friendly Website

Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and non-profits. This is a follow [...]
EIA 028 Pastor Trained Music Teacher Trying F&B

EIA 028 Pastor Trained Music Teacher Trying F&B

Daryl Saw is the CEO of the Stewords Riverboat a food and beverage facility that caters for 100 diners as well as having a bar for 150, which is located at the Marina South Pier in Singapore.  [...]
EIA 027 WordPress to Improve Business; The Theme

EIA 027 WordPress to Improve Business; The Theme

Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and nonprofits. This is a follow o[...]
EIA 026 WordPress to Improve Business; The Dashboard

EIA 026 WordPress to Improve Business; The Dashboard

Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures; a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and nonprofits. This is a follow o[...]
EIA 025 Introduction to WordPress to Improve Business

EIA 025 Introduction to WordPress to Improve Business

Mark Kay is the CEO and Founder of MJ Creative Ventures, a company that specialises in providing mobile friendly, SEO optimised websites for Small Business owners and nonprofits. This is the first [...]
EIA 024 Pawn Makes Sustainability Fashionable

EIA 024 Pawn Makes Sustainability Fashionable

Jane Jia, AKA Jia Wenting is the founder of Pawnstar, Shanghai. As sustainability, recycling and upcycling become more main-stream Jane positions herself as a pioneer in the changes that are taking pl[...]
EIA 023 Click to Engage Your Audience

EIA 023 Click to Engage Your Audience

Nick Moritz is the founder Wolfpack Response Limited, Shanghai (上海狼群信息技术有限公司). He is an entrepreneur from Detroit Michigan, United States and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in [...]
EIA 022 Mismatched Marketing Sales Guru

EIA 022 Mismatched Marketing Sales Guru

Morry Morgan is the Managing Director as well as Head of Consulting at ClarkMorgan Ltd., an award winning corporate training firm that develops teams and individuals of multinational companies across [...]
EIA 021 Tech My Clothes Away

EIA 021 Tech My Clothes Away

Barbara Yu Larsson is the founder and CEO of PAKT, which is a Hong Kong-based startup which offers a creative tech solution to the acute space issue that plague all city dwellers globally. Prior to la[...]
EIA 020 The Risk that Fails You

EIA 020 The Risk that Fails You

William Leong worked in Hong Kong for nine years before moving to China in 2001. He is one of the two founding partners of Willsonn Partners Limited, which has been involved in providing accounting se[...]
EIA 019 Walk Naked in the City

EIA 019 Walk Naked in the City

Shownotes: Paul Hu is the General Manager of the Naked Hub on Fuxing Road in the heart Shanghai. This Naked Hub is first in the series of four planned to create a creative co-working co[...]
EIA 018 Belief in the Success of Your Passions

EIA 018 Belief in the Success of Your Passions

Shownotes: Peter Lloyd is a very different type of entrepreneur. In his own word he is “Hong Kong British, whatever that is?” He is an interfaith minister, psychotherapist, and importer. He[...]
EIA 017 See Pink Elephants to Success

EIA 017 See Pink Elephants to Success

Shownotes Ben Ivey is a young entrepreneur from the United Kingdom. Ben graduated from Exeter University in 2014 and has visited China twice as a student to gain living and business experie[...]
EIA 016 Business West - Relations East

EIA 016 Business West - Relations East

Shownotes Jonathan Brown from Edinburgh, Scotland and Liang Sun from Shanghai, China they are both business consultants and have created a positive business relationship. Jonathan is a s[...]
EIA 015 Kick Boxing the Chinese Health Business

EIA 015 Kick Boxing the Chinese Health Business

Shownotes Drew Campbell is an Australian national. He is the Founder & CEO of WHS - which is the first independent retail chain of health food stores in Mainland China. His company is t[...]
EIA 014 Mexico's Spicy Michelada in Xiamen's Heart

EIA 014 Mexico's Spicy Michelada in Xiamen's Heart

Shownotes: Jeronimo Ramos Leon is a Mexican national and an engineer by training. One of the warmest and friendliest people that I have met anywhere in the world. He grew up on the family cocoa[...]
EIA End of Series 1 Announcement

EIA End of Series 1 Announcement

The first series is now over and you may have noticed that there have only been thirteen casts out of fifteen. The reason for this is that two of the episodes didn't quite fit in with the Entrepre[...]
EIA 013 Five Reasons a Business Fails

EIA 013 Five Reasons a Business Fails

Thomas Koenig discusses his five reasons why businesses fail. He also gives us the reasons why he believes that entrepreneurs are the future for jobs, the importance of creating a business plan that c[...]
EIA 012 Hardware Hacking with Brilliant Strangers

EIA 012 Hardware Hacking with Brilliant Strangers

Emily Zheng and Jeremy Ann both took part in TechYiZu's HackYiZu 2015. Emily is from London and has a financial investment background. However she has recently switched to working for a tech start[...]
EIA 011 TechYiZu’s Inspiring Makers

EIA 011 TechYiZu’s Inspiring Makers

Lionello Lunesu, Kent Zaitlik and Noah Solnick are three Techyizu volunteers and organisers of Hackyizu 2015. Each briefly tells their own story of their journey in technology, their experience as[...]
EIA 010 The Maker at the Xinfab Fablab

EIA 010 The Maker at the Xinfab Fablab

Lucio Pentagna explains how after a career as a company director he left his native Brazil and sailed around the Caribbean and to Europe. He then moved to Shanghai where he discovered his passion for [...]
EIA 009 Hack a TechYiZu Solution

EIA 009 Hack a TechYiZu Solution

Kevin Chen reveals how his lead in the recent HackYiZu 2015, which is a Techyizu-style Hackathon held in Shanghai held over two days for people with a passion for technology, entrepreneurship, and[...]
EIA 008 Vision, Plan and Passion

EIA 008 Vision, Plan and Passion

Simon Henry gives a detailed look behind the scene at Juwai.com, an award winning online platform. His first startup after seven startups for others after he and his cofounder identified a blu[...]
EIA 007 Pioneering Arts Across Cultures

EIA 007 Pioneering Arts Across Cultures

Anna Kuznetsova describes the route she took and alternatives to become an art historian and specialist in the art business, and using her experience of linking the Russian and Chinese arts wo[...]
EIA 006 Motivating by Example

EIA 006 Motivating by Example

    Karen Contet discusses her role in two startups that motivates and encourages others by her example, ’Women Who Code HK and W Hub’, insights into what it takes to switch in[...]
EIA 005 Mobile Hotel Booking Challenges

EIA 005 Mobile Hotel Booking Challenges

Raphael Cohen is an entrepreneur that specialises in the development, implementation and support of new internet companies in Asia. In this episode he gives insights into the challenges faced [...]
EIA 004 The Return of the Super Consumer

EIA 004 The Return of the Super Consumer

Michael Zakkour, is an author, writer, public speaker and lecturer. In this episode he talks about his latest book "Chinese Super Consumers" and the influence that they are around the world, a[...]
EIA 003 Green and Inspired

EIA 003 Green and Inspired

Michelle Yeh, a health & beauty industry expert and green lifestyle advocate, as the founder and CEO explains the motivation behind GREEN & Gorgeous, formerly known as myLOHAS beauty -[...]
EIA 002 Overcoming the Challenges

EIA 002 Overcoming the Challenges

Jean Zimmermann gives a very personal and passionate view of his journey to create China’s first home grown luxury cosmetics brand, Ba Yan Ka La. The professional challenges, the personal chal[...]
EIA 001 Building Your Startup

EIA 001 Building Your Startup

Stone Shi explains, how he sees himself and the motivation behind his startup 'BonApp' formerly ‘IndulgeSmart’. The keys vital to success and the criteria used to select both investors and partners. A[...]

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