MRCA CEO Night 2011

Earlier last week I attended yet another MRCA (Malaysia Retailer Chains Association) event. The CEO Night is an annual event hosted by MRCA to honour all the CEO's in the retail industry. This year, The Special Guest of Honour and Speaker is Dato' Sri Nazir Razak, the CEO of CIMB Group. Past speakers were Tun Dr Mahathir former Prime Minister of Malaysia and Dato's Sri Tony Fernandes, founder of Tune Group and AirAsia.

Dato gave a very captivating speech on the story of CIMB with a sense of humour, particularly when it comes to his good friend Dato' Sri Tony Fernandes, CEO of Airasia. Dinner was okay until the waiter spill a glass of red wine on me and no apology. If it was a casual function I would have made a big fuss about out but since its a big corporate event, even Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah the CEO of Sunway Group was at the main table. So I've to give face a bit la.

The team and I.

Over the weekend, my photo was featured on a write up by China Press.

Full page coverage on the CEO Night. That's my picture ant the bottom centre.

A blow up copy of my photo. Sharing a joke with Mr Lee Hwa Cheng, founder of Sinma

Over all its an interesting night of networking and learning from all these successful CEOs.

Airasia X CEO Mr Azran Osman-Rani

Just came back from a wonderful talk at Intercontinental Hotel(Nikko Hotel) organised by Young Corporate Malaysians(YCM). This time around, the speaker is rather special, he is the CEO of AirAsia X, Mr Azran Osman-Rani who talks about his journey in the corporate world, how he ended up with the top job at AirAsia X and how he manages AirAsia X. I must say that I'm truly impressed with how down to earth he was during the whole session. Honestly did not know much about him(didn't even know that he is the CEO of AirAsia X) until today's talk.

Long story cut short, it was truly an inspiring session to hear him talk.

AirAsia X CEO Mr Azran Osman-Rani & myself

After spending more than an hour listen to the humble gentlemen, I find that he is truly an inspiring corporate leader that other local top guns should strive to emulate. He is someone that could inspire his colleague to think out of the box and work smart to achieve a common goal. Will definitely look forward to work for bosses like him.