Tapping Myanmar's growth potential
Singapore Myanmar Investco is using its early-mover advantage to take a market leadership position in one of Asia's largest frontier markets
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,…
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