The Breakfast Grille

Western Digital Director for Operation & Sales for SEA, Margaret Koh, discusses: - Supply chain discruption - Ayuthaya; - Clustering - issues - implications - lessons; - Inventory - normalisation - prices outlook; - Competition - solid-state drive makers -  market share loss; - Solid-state drive market - outlook - opportunities; - Hitachi acquisition - implications - effect; - Tablet mark...

DiGi Bhd CEO Henrik Clausen discusses: - "Internet for all": update on network modernisation; - LTE - update; - Service tax - 6% - update - implications; - Competition - marketing - migrant segment; - Strategy - price war concerns; - Impact - competition - margin compression; - (Perceived) marketing lethargy; - Financial outlook: revenue growth - margins guidance - capex spend; - Rivals - upping d...

In this 2012 Breakfast Grille edition, AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani discusses:   - "Portfolio reallocation" - ceasing services to Mumbai - Delhi - London - Paris - Christchurch - reasons; - (EU emissions cap-and-trade, jet fuel prices, downturn, competition, "exorbitant" government taxes) - straw that finally broke the camel's back; - How badly these European routes doing; - Repercussions:...

Greenyield Berhad Executive Chairman and GMD Tham Foo Keong discusses: - Its plantation related systems and products and services; - Expansion rubber plantations - Kelantan; - Outlook rubber prices; - Key drivers of rubber prices; - Challenges - skilled labor shortage; - Artstone plant pots - export - expansion; - Patent registration - competitition; - Exchange rate - fluctuations - hedging; - Cap...

In this 2012 interview, Irish Ambassador Declan Kelly discusses: - The EU crisis - restructuring promissory notes worth €31bn; - What's at stake - highly politicised - Spain and Greece seem to be getting easier terms; - Olli Rehn - pacta sunt servanda – 'respect your commitments and obligations'; - Difficulty of budget deficit target; - The higher rates Ireland pays; - Irish support - n...

James G Rickards, lawyer, economist, investment banker and author of Currency Wars, discusses: - Signs - economic collapse; - 'Threat finance'; - Currency wars - economic or monetary concern - national security concern; - Threats - national security - clandestine gold purchases - hidden agendas - sovereign wealth funds - collapse of the dollar - substantiate; - "Greatest gamble in the history of f...

Hwang Investment Management CEO/ED Teng Chee Wai discusses: - Assets under management - growth - reasons - dynamics; - Foreign fund flows; - Retail rally; - Malaysia economy; - CG issues; - Fees - crippling - justify; - Case for reform; - Different rates - EPF - External - reasons; - Unit trusts - growth - outlook; - Performance of funds to-date; - New fund rollout: plans - strategy; - The thinkin...

Marshall Goldsmith, Executive Coach & author of the New York Times bestseller 'What Got You Here, Won't Get You There' discusses: --  A theme that runs through most of his writings: the very same beliefs that lead to success, can make it very difficult to change. He delves deeper into the why it can be so hard for successful leaders to change --  How Buddhism principles have deeply i...

Moving objects nothing more than a thought has long been the purview of science-fiction. But Emotiv Lifescience's new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, makes it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with your thoughts. Tan Le, co-founder and president of Emotiv Lifescience talks about the development of the thought-conversion technology and breaks down h...

Soul Society Co-founder/Executive Director, Michele Kwok discusses - Start - how - funding - difficulties; - Getting to the first million; - No outlets now; - Biggest challenges; - Lessons - hurdles - mistakes; - Longevity - issues; - Challenges -- time commitment -- stamina - energy; - Ingredients to success - focus areas; - How industry evolving; - Demand - elasticity - pressure points; - Exit -...

Burson-Marsteller Asia-Pacific President & CEO Bob Pickard, discusses: - The biggest changes in the Asia-Pacific communications landscape since his 2011 interview; - Crisis communications - digital space - preparation levels; - Common crises - Management advisers - PR - operational improvement issues; - Natural disasters - crisis communications; - Lynas-type issues - preemptive fire-fighting;...

28 year old, Joel Neoh, the CEO of  Groupon  Malaysia and Taiwan, talks about his entrepreneurial journey so far. He founded Groupsmore that was subsequently sold to  Groupon . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

BASF Malaysia Country MD Daniel Loh discusses: - Malaysia business divisions; - Crude oil raw material - price - outlook; - Effects on BASF - BASF in SEA; - 60-40 joint venture with Petronas - environment issues; - Genetically modified plant production - Asia; - "Weedy" rice - MIDA - rice production - yields; - Renewable energy - battery materials - cutting dependence on cyclical businesses like p...

Dr. Jim Green, National Nuclear Campaigner, Friends of the Earth Australia discusses: - Fukushima - Nuclear fallout - repercussions; - Malaysia - nuclear - energy issues; - Low-level radiation - whether harmless; - Chernobyl; - Whether Chernobyl - overstated; - Three Mile island; - Heavyweights - advocates - Nuclear - Bil Gates; - Terrapower - Gates - Nathan Myrvhold - waste disposals; - The Green...

Tune Hotels GCEO Mark Lankester discusses: - No. of hotels - hotels in pipeline; - Occupancy rates - main regions; - Domestic-non-domestic mix; - Rollout challenges; - Hotel management expertise - TripAdvisor Feedback - challenges; - "If you screw up, you've got to own up" - "constantly online" - Facebook and Twitter - expectation and reputation management; - Hotel management and ownership structu...

Satyajit Das, Author of Extreme Money : Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk  Satyajit talks about: - Money, how it has changed from being just a mere medium of exchange to its current form - Fraud in the banking system and how it is easily it has become undetectable - Debt, which has become more and more complex contributing to the debt problems the global economy is facing today - H...

Finaport Chief Investment Officer Hans Goetti discusses: - Finaport positioning, investment focus, client types;   - Expertise areas; - AUMs - amount invested versus cash levels; - Whether has seen fund redemption accelerate, with risk-off approach to markets; - Most-invested asset classes - geography - reasons; - Central bank pump-priming - sugar rush issue; - Benefiting asset classes; - Inf...

Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz, governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, tells her outlook for the economy, interest rates, when the Ringgit will be internationalised, the success of the bank liberalisation policies, and developments in the Islamic financial market, and gives some insights about her personal life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Praba G Menon, Area General Manager of Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur discusses: --  How guests have become more decerning over the years, especially astravelling has become easier and with more exposure to quality services in other countries --  How price-sensitive are guests nowadays --  Hotel Istana's refurbishment exercise, due to be completed next year --  Hotel Istana's contri...

Dr Jonathan Dorfan, the president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, talks about the interdisciplinary approach in teaching science to nurture a new breed of researchers who can connect the dots between different aspects of science. This newest graduate university in Japan received generous funding from the government, has five Nobel Laureates on its board of governors and unlike...

Media Chinese International Ltd GM of Group Project Operations Chan May May discusses: - 2011 advertising expenditure - expectations - newspaper segment;   - Share of print adex - Media Prima rise - Star fall - whether bigger trend; - 2012 adex outlook - 2012 Olympics - Euro 2012 - General Election - forecast adex growth forecast at 2x GDP; - Newsprint costs - percentage of needs locked - hed...

Dr David Wilson, President and CEO of the Graduate Management Admission Council, discusses: - The GMAT -- as opposed to the Graduate Record Examination, or the GRE; - Essence of the examination - mode of study - preparatio for Executive and Business MBAs; - Battle with GRE as alternative; - Critiques - GMAT as insufficiently able to select students equipped to work in the modern business environme...

Tupperware Brands Corporation Chairman and CEO Rick Goings discusses: - Tupperware in Asia and Malaysia - presence - market size; - Transformation efforts; - Expansion into Direct Selling of Beauty -- data points in decision - upside potential; - Establishing 'global beachheads' - EMs - how - why; - Operating margins - cotnrast established markets - why; - Which countries - strongest growth - wome...

Federation of Malaysian Freight Forwarders President Alvin Chua discusses: - Early and complete liberalisation of the Malaysian logistics industry - challenges; - Port dwell times - customs Clearance - Physical Inspection - reduction in time; - Corruption - customs; - Special working committee - MACC - "find ways to improve the nation's import and export industry"; - Ahmad Sarbaini; - Outdated fil...

Northern Corridor Implementation Authority CEO Datuk Redza Rafiq discusses: - The Northern Corridor's 'Brownfield' status; - Investment and jobs attained - targets - KPIs; - Japan's tsunami - supply chain disruptions - Yen appreciation - Northern Corridor gain; - Target industries; - Investments - GNI - update; - Jobs and employment gain details - current and future; - Reporting structure - opposi...