Whisky Unfinished

Send us Fan Mail “People don’t want to be treated as an account. They want to be treated as a person.” This is a special episode of Whisky Unfinished - filmed in Singapore for the very first time. Not part of the regular season format, this episode marks the beginning of a new Singapore chapter for Casks of Significance, with Joseph joining the team and leading the presence on the ground. Rickesh...

Send us Fan Mail EP10 - Paris Shepherd: Asia's Private Banking World, Myanmar, Vietnam & a Whisky Education Paris Shepherd spent 25 years in Asia running financial media businesses at the centre of the region's private banking and wealth management industry. He was Managing Director at Asian Private Banker, where he grew the publication and events business from five to 45 people, and...

Send us Fan Mail EP9 — Luke Yardley: Craft Beer, Whisky Prototypes & the Art of Flavour Luke Yardley co-founded Yardley Brothers with his brother Duncan in 2015, starting with a homebrew setup in a Lamma Island living room and selling beer from a shack on the side of a hiking trail. Today, Yardley Brothers is one of the most respected craft breweries in Asia, known for its sour and barrel-aged...

Send us Fan Mail EP8 - Kingston lai: The Morgan Stanley Exit That Built Asia Bankers Club  In Episode 8 of Whisky Unfinished, Rickesh Kishnani sits down with Kingston Lai, Founder of Asia Bankers Club. Before building the Club, Kingston was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley Hong Kong, where he worked across institutional sales and distribution before making the leap from corporate banking in...

Send us Fan Mail EP7 - Cristiane Ross: When to Fire a Customer, the Link Between EX and CX, and What 20 Years in Hospitality Taught Her Cristiane Ross is the Group Head of Customer Experience, Corporate Sales, and CSR at Pure Group International in Hong Kong - one of Asia's leading premium fitness and wellness brands. She pioneered the customer experience function at Pure Fitness in 2010 and...

Send us Fan Mail EP6 - Gaurav Glen More: 2,000+ Hires, 20 Years, and What He Really Looks For Gaurav Glen More has spent over two decades placing executives at the top of Asia's most respected organisations - Apple, LVMH, Gucci, and hundreds more. He is the President of AdMark Asia Group and a long-standing member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. In this episode, Rickesh Kishnani sits...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E5 — Beth Wright, Functional Medicine Nutritionist / Author /Speaker / Hormone Expert / Award-Winning / NGO Board Member & Advisor/ Former Corporate Lawyer /Ex-Julius Baer Beth Wright is a Hong Kong-based certified functional medicine nutritionist and founder of B-FIT the Wright Way, specializing in empowering high-achieving women particularly those 40+ to balance hormones,...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E4 — David McCann, CEO, AOP Capital  Thursday, 2 April 2026 · 6:00 PM HKT David J. McCann is an Irish entrepreneur and SFC-regulated finance professional based in Hong Kong, where he founded and leads AOP Capital - a merchant bank and family office firm focused on private equity, wealth management, and East-West investment opportunities. With over 15 years in Hong Kong and deca...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E3  - Hil Tse, Founder, Timeless and Tasty Thursday, 26 March 2026 · 6:00 PM HKT Hil Tse started Timeless and Tasty in 2016 with no contacts, no backing, and no roadmap. She knocked on doors, built relationships from scratch, and grew one of Hong Kong's most trusted independent whisky businesses entirely on her own. In this episode, she and Rickesh Kishnani open six rare c...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E2 - David Peng Why would anyone send whisky to the moon and what does that have to do with the next great investment opportunity? In Episode 2 of Whisky Unfinished, Rickesh Kishnani sits down with David Peng - 35-year veteran of Asian asset management, President of BluFin Advisory, and Chief Strategy Officer at AstroHub - for a wide-ranging conversation about long-horizon inve...

Send us Fan Mail S1 E1 - Li Tan  In the debut episode of Whisky Unfinished, Rickesh sits down with Li Tan — his business partner of 13 years and Co-Owner of Rare Whisky Holdings — to talk about how they built one of Asia's most ambitious whisky investment funds from scratch. They cover the moment the idea became real, what it actually takes to build a whisky fund, and why the asset class is m...