Silver Spotlight: Chong Huai Seng - From Scholar To Entrepreneur
Chong Huai Seng, Chairman, The Culture Story (theculturestory.co) and Family Office For Art (fofa.asia) shares insights on the art industry in Singapore in this Silver Spotlight interview for @SilverStreakTV.
As a student, Chong Huai Seng balanced work and study, captaining the Raffles Institution softball team, being active in Raffles Players with the Raffles Girls School and scoring well during his exams.
“Good grades were not the priority, but we managed somehow,” says the Colombo Plan scholar.
When he ventured into the working world, he was quickly drawn into the civil service, looking for investors as part of the EDB’s elite cohort. The call of the entrepreneur was too strong in him and he set off down that path via the finance and publishing industries, before art, which had always been his constant companion, carried him away.