The Breakfast Grille

Qualitas Healthcare Holdings Chairman & MD Dato' Dr Noorul Ameen discusses: - Transition from Kumpulan Medic to Qualitas;  - Impetus for formation; - Services - positioning;  - Update of clinics and regional network; - Challenges in managing a regional healthcare chain; - Financials - Revenue - NPAT - expected growth rates; - Expansion plan; - Priority countries - reasons - attribute...

Gavin Faull, chairman and president of Swiss Belhotel International, tells why the 4 star hotel segment is the best market to be in. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sedania Group GCEO Datuk Azrin Mohd Noor discusses: - Details - beginnings; - Startup process - BP - Investors - Govt projects - Started in 2004; - Tan Sri Halim Ali as Chairman; - Ernst Young' Master Entrepreneur shortlist; - "Content and fulfillment" company - Details; - "Fulfillment Industry" - Details; - "Future money" - Details; - Business model - main product; - Challenges: global competitio...

Shai Reshef, entrepreneur, founder and president of the University of People, is making education accessible to everyone but how sustainable is this model? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was a stroke of luck that left Century Logistics Holdings Bhd with only minimal losses when its Thai plant in the Ayutthaya province was affected by the floods last year.  Century Logistics deputy managing director Dr Amin Kassim explains that the firm's Thai counterpart had wanted to commence operations a few weeks later than the original date. "Being Thai, they too had some sort of feng...

Teradata Corporation's Area VP of Teradata South Asia, Noel Pettitt, discusses: - Moore's Law - rise of computing power - exponential jump in collected data; - Rise of multimedia, social media, Internet - Big Data; - Big Data and operating margins, reducing expenditures, driving operational efficiency improvements, reduce fraud - tax revenues; - Industry growth; - Global market share; - Global com...

Altera Corporation Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Altera Malaysia, Jordan S. Plofsky, discusses: - The business of programmable logic device manufacturing; - Difference with fixed logic devices; - Their practical applications; - How Altera feeds into the smartphone and tablet craze; - Biggest clients; - December profit warnings from semiconductor makers - weak spots - soft markets...

Amir Firdaus Abdullah, regional CEO of Gleneagles Hospital, says the hospital will be growing more aggressively in the next few years and is looking to expand to East Malaysia, the East Coast and Iskandar Malaysia as well as acquire smaller hospitals in the region. Planned investment cost is RM700 million. The assets will be included in Khazanah Nasional's healthcare portfolio that will be listed...

Cardiff City FC CEO Alan Whiteley discusses: - Tan Sri Vincent Tan - new ownership - reception to Malaysian owners - attrition; - Branding opportunities - Berjaya; - Promotion to the Premiership - chances; - Transfer budget; - Players sought; - Malaysian players - whether strong-armed to be brought into squad - Chairman TG - son Nicholas Chan - whether an issue; - Financial situation - whethe...

HTC Malaysia Country Manager SK Wong discusses: - Malaysia market share; - Best sellers; - Market size; - Sales drivers; - Marketing points - what works in Malaysia; - Financials: weak Q4 earnings; - Competition - weak market outlook; - Malaysia situation; - Outlook for 2012 - strategy to offset weakening conditions; - Rumors of an expected Quad-core phone; - Challenges: software upgrade inability...

Phillip Karuppiah, CEO of The Malay Mail, says it will be competing head-on against The Star, NST and The Sun as a morning mainstream newspaper with star reporter, Terence Fernandez as the editor. On its online strategy, The Malay Mail will buck the trend and is likely to charge for online content to avoid cannibalising its print sales. The new Malay Mail will be launched nationwide on 30th Januar...

Dr Dwight Adams discusses forensic science and new methods in crime scene investigation, and how realistic is CSI, the TV show. A pioneer in DNA testing for crime investigation and a former FBI director, he is now a director at the University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Raymond Gan, CEO of Kelington Group (stock code: KGB), says the company is diversifying its customer base and proactively engaging fund managers to promote the company. Starting with Mox Linde, Gan's former employer, as its first client, the gas and chemical delivery company has since secured clients in the semiconductor, solar cells, pharmaceutical and bioscience sector. In terms of small caps, K...

Victor Lim, regional general manager of South East Asia at Shaklee, says the group would focus on healthcare products rather than over-expand its product range to third party and household products although it could multiply sales. In terms of market expansion, Shaklee prefers to expand by focusing on one market at a time before moving from Indonesia to Thailand and Vietnam. Indonesia is expected...

Montree Sornpaisarn, CEO of Maybank Kim Eng Thailand, says Thailand is recovering and is expected to grow about 5%, and the political situation is expected to remain stable as Thaksin Shinawatra is likely to stay out of the country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Chang, founder and CEO of Jobstreet.com and Malaysia's most successful entrepreneur from the dot com days, talks about his humble beginning and the importance of having humility and pragmatism in business. Mark is also an investor in BFM. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barton Biggs, Traxis Partners hedge fund manager and Author of "Wealth, War and Wisdom", discusses: - His rather bleak views on the future of the global economy; - The possibility of a breakdown of the civilized infrastructure”; - His assertion that Mankind endures ``an episode of great wealth destruction'' at least once every century; - The connection between wars and markets; - His views f...

National Innovation Agency CEO Dato' Dr KamalJit Singh discusses: - How innovation can be government-led; - Whether examples exist where a global titan was created by a government; - A (BCG) commissioned study's three key recommendations to boost innovation; - 'Focused funding' - performance management system - comprehensive linkages within the innovation ecosystem; - How the success or failure of...

Datin Chan-Low Kam Yoke, group CEO and co-founder of HELP University, tells about the humble beginnings of HELP Institute when it was a college, and gives insights into its acquisition strategies, and about working with her husband Datuk Dr Paul Chan. Kam Yoke won the Ernst & Young women entrepreneur award in 2011. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Yen Siew San, the CEO of Continental Automotive Malaysia, tells the history of the company under different shareholders, the megatrends of the auto industry, what he thinks about the future of electric cars, and what he thinks the national auto agenda should be premised on. Continental Automotive accounts for two thirds of Continental's group revenue. In Malaysia, it supplies instrument clusters t...

Berjaya Food Bhd CEO Dato' Francis Lee discusses: - Update on number of outlets in Malaysia - number owned directly; - Number that are franchise owned - how the franchise model is working for BFood; - Outlet opening rollout plan; - Update on branches overseas; - Indonesia plan; - Expectations of M&A - brands that would suit the Berjaya Food model - re-position from fast-food to mid-casual; - U...

Ashok Rao, chairman of TiE Global, the entrepreneur network group, talks about the challenges he faced as an entrepreneur, how Malaysia can foster a stronger culture of entrepreneurship, and how TiE can connect entrepreneurs in Malaysia to the world.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adrian Gore, the founder of Discovery, a medical insurance provider in South Africa talks about how his innovative schemes are lowering premiums and rewarding clients for staying healthy.     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DC Cordova, the global CEO and founder of Excellerated Business Schools and Money & You programme, talks about acquiring a wealthy mindset.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Edward Striebig, the regional manager for Southeast Asia and Australasia of Bentley, talks about the direction of the British marque. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.