As the English Premier League kicks off this month, The Peak sits down with the powerhouse elite of Malaysia’s corporate sphere to talk about their love for football and how strategies that lead to victory on the field can be applied, likewise, to winning in business.
Jukka Poutanen, Managing Director of ABB Malaysia, tells Michael Oh how innovation gives one of the world’s largest engineering companies its edge and why he loves the sun here.
Lords of the Final Frontier
The Peak travels to Houston, Texas, for Omega’s gala dinner in the presence of three legendary astronauts as well as its celebrity brand ambassador, George Clooney, paying homage to the brand’s continual commitment to space exploration as well as to commemorate its legendary Speedmaster timepieces, which carry the distinction and unique legacy of being the first watch on the moon.
Former Manchester United footballer extraordinaire and Hautlence Ambassador, Eric Cantona, recently visited Malaysia to commemorate the independent’s official partnership with Cortina Watch and début in the country. The Peak sits down with Cantona and long-time friend of the magazine, Guillaume Tetu, CEO and Co-Founder of Hautlence, to discuss what their partnership means for the brand.
It’s a wonderful treat when all the heavy-hitters of Malaysia’s corporate world get fêted by what is, without doubt, Kuala Lumpur’s culinary dream team.
Art collectors and anyone familiar with art would know the name Dr Oei Hong Djien. One of Indonesia’s leading art collectors, ‘Pak Oei’, as he is affectionately known, is also the driving force behind his eponymous art museum, known simply as the OHD Museum, in Central Java – not far from the world heritage site of Borobudur. Diana Khoo meets him at his home in Magelang near Yogyakarta.
