PLOY LUMTHONG (ZAE), C’EST DESIGN
“My mom raised me alone. She sells Thai products at the Chatuchak weekend market so my sisters and I went there every weekend to help her. My life was always a bit different from the other kids because I had to work on weekends and we couldn’t afford extra curricular activities after school. Helping my […]
ANNE HANSEN, BAG INDEED
“My background is in marketing. I worked with Procter & Gamble for 5 years and managed the launch of skincare product SK-II in Thailand. Then I got some minor health issues and starting to ponder if that was the right career choice for me. I knew I would always have to work very long hours […]
PATCHARIYA ARCHVICHAI, HAPPYPILLS
“I studied Fashion Design at Bangkok University and worked during the summer break every year. At the end of my freshman year, I imported sunglasses from the US and sold them on Facebook. I spent a year in Florida as an exchange student in high school so I knew which brands I liked. I contacted […]
ZARAH JUAN, ESTUDIO JUAN
“I was a flight attendant for several years and used to be based out of Japan. I asked my colleagues ‘How come there are bags being sold in supermarkets here?’ They told me that those were simply reusable bags to carry grocery and that’s when it downed on me that it was just we Filipinos […]
LAUREN YATES
I went to art school and studied to be a photographer in Australia. When I was 14, I was scouted to be a model, working full-time. Fortunately my agent never let me miss school and she forced me to go to university. I used to hate her but now I thank her. I did modelling […]
ANGELIQUE UY
I spent 5 years working for a B2B firm selling online marketing products. In 2013, around the time when I felt it was time to move on, I was invited by a friend to join a brand new company to bring reloadable cards to Manila to pay for meals and other purchases. Filipinos love vouchers […]
ROSARIO JUAN
“I am a social media professional and a coffee entrepreneur. These are the 2 things that I really love to do. I have been in coffee since I graduated from college in 2003. I worked for a coffee company and then for a foundation supporting Filipino coffee farmers. When the coffee company opened a branch […]
CAMILLE ESCUDERO
“I used to work as an IT business executive for AT&T but I left that life after my father died in 2010. I wanted to be closer to my family so I decided to go back and work in the family business, which my mom founded in 2005 and that makes intimate apparel. I never […]
CARYL BRILL
“I came to Asia in 1975 as a hippie. After a stint in Taipei and Hong Kong for an advertising agency, I decided to move to the Philippines. I thought I was going to find a job really easy like in HK. Well that didn’t happen. I didn’t find a job easily but I had […]
NICKY SURAPAITOON
“My background is in pharmaceutical. Typically when you graduate in this field in Thailand you don’t really have much choice, either you work in the hospital, a factory or a pharmacy and eventually you’ll end up with your own pharmacy. After working in a pharmacy for sometime, I decided to start my own so I […]
