Tapping Myanmar's growth potential

MARK Bedingham is driven by an insatiable curiosity.

The Malaysian- born Briton and chief executive officer of SGX-listed Singapore Myanmar Investco Ltd (SMI) finds exploring the unfamiliar totally exhilarating.

"I'm not a person of routine, so I need constant disruption. And I don't want to lose that sense of discovery. So far, it seems it hasn't deserted me either," he grinned.

Mr Bedingham, who spent his entire career - more than four decades - working in the Asia-Pacific, describes his passion for the region as a subconscious association resulting from the first seven years of his life in Malaysia.

"My father was in the Malaysian police - in anti-Communist intelligence - before and after Independence,…