21/01/2011
Sabancı University Economics and Management Club members will travel to Singapore between the 23rd and 30th of January to meet CEOs for the first time in that country. This will be the 5th “Tea Talks with CEOs” event abroad, and will bring students together with the leading figures in the business, politics and media circles of Singapore.
The “Tea Talks with CEOs” series of events will take Sabancı University Economics and Management Club members to Singapore this time, bringing them together with the prominent figures of Singapore’s leading institutions in a casual setting. This will be the first time students will have the opportunity to take a closer look into the business world of a country in the Far East.
Making a significant change in course and heading, the team will travel to Singapore between January 23rd and 30th. 16 students will take part in the conversations whose guests include McKinsey & Co., Southeast Asia Advisory Board Member and Partner Jonathan Auerbach, Allianz Singapore CEO Kevin Leong, Aviva Singapore CEO Simon Newman, SingTel International CEO Hui Weng Cheong, ST Engineering General Manager and CEO Tan Pheng Hock, SICC General Manager Phillip Overmyer, SBF CEO Teng Theng Dar and MediaCorp General Manager Teo Ming Kian, DBS Singapore CEO Sim Lim, and Leo Burnett Singapore and Malaysia CEO Tan Kien Eng.
Having met with close to 130 CEOs to date, students say that gaining insight and taking recommendations from the proven leaders of the business world is an asset that cannot be found in any textbook, and that the opportunity to ask questions to and get candid responses from CEOs in a casual setting contributes greatly to their personal development.
Tea Talks with CEOs Team’s comments on Singapore meetings
Members of the Sabancı University Economics and Management Club have held Tea Talks with CEOs in Istanbul, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and France, and had the opportunity to talk to the leaders of the business world in Turkey and Europe. For the Singapore leg of their journey, the students say, “Our goal as an organization is to hear the success stories of leading figures and gain a closer understanding of different work cultures across the world. In this respect, Singapore completes the Far East section of the global mosaic. As a society that is built on the fusion of differences, this country will tell us what it means to be a global citizen and manager.”