Interviews

The Seoul Global Center was opened four years ago. How has your center done so far?

Dr. Jerome Delli Priscoli works at the U.S Army Corps of Engineers’ Institute for Water Resources and is Editor in Chief of the journal Water Policy. He is a world leader in conflict management, water resources and security. He answered questions during a conference in Seoul organized by the Global Green Growth Institute where he spoke on climate change in the Asia-Pacific.

In 1984, the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops hired Jack Covert to promote business and computer books to the Milwaukee business community. He grew that 3-shelf business section into a US$7 million specialty business book retailer, 800-CEO-READ, and won a reputation in the competitive world of business-book publishing.

Tan Yinglan was educated at Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. He is a Kauffman Fellow at the Center of Venture Education, and serves on the boards of innovative growth ventures and venture capital funds in Asia. Yinglan was the first director of 3i Venturelab China, a joint-venture between private equity firm 3i and INSEAD.

Life just goes on and with absolutely no regrets for this man with continental experiences. Mr. Peter Leitgeb currently serving as the president and CEO of Claridges Hotels & Resorts has 30 years experience in the hospitality industry. He comes with a diverse experience of holding senior management positions with some of the leading global hospitality brands.

Dilip Sundaram joined the Mahindra Group as Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance and Strategic Development in 2010, and was promoted to Co-Receiver of Ssangyong Motor Company in January 2011. In March 2011, he was made Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ssangyong Motor Company in which capacity he currently serves. He holds an MBA from the University of Rochester’s William E.

Can you explain to us the products your company produces and its significance in the industry?

SIECOM mainly produces industrial measuring equipment, such as chloride-meters, concrete aerometers, and unit measurement devices. We also produce filed installation purpose water quality analysis instruments - Ph measuring instruments, dissolved oxygen meters, and suspended solid densitometers. These are our main products.

Free newspaper in Korea may have a short history, but according to the recent report 2010 Newspaper Advertisement Readership Score published by Korea Press Foundation, free newspaper in Korea has one of the highest editorial readership scores and advertisement attention rates compared to other papers, including national dailies and finance newspapers in Korea.

Director of the Indo Korea Connect & Worldwide Advisory Net, Ms. Madhubala Nahar is a two-time "Intellectual Women of the Year" award recipient for the 2008 and 2009, a celebrated Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience, an Information Systems Auditor, a Council Member with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India for over 12 years, a two-term committee member of the Reserve Bank of India (Apex Banking Regulator in India) State Co-ordination Committee, recipient of the Gov't. of India Recognition for Academic Excellency with 98%, received the highest marks in pre-university, a sought-after speaker in the USA, UAE, Singapore, and Malaysia on the subjects of IFRS, Doing Business in India, International Taxation, and the list goes on. Indeed, this lady entrepreneur has quite a glittering profile.