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Eye on the Prize

It made sense for the daughter of Supermax’s Tan Sri Stanley Thai to become an entrepreneur. With her bubbly persona and expressive candour, Cecile Thai related how she left her past career as an investment consultant to run her own business. “Even when I was an employee, I have always been a self-starter—I wanted to have a project I could grow from infancy to success. So I started examining my own life to see what problems I could solve,” she reveals.

Cecile looked no further than her own

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