Ms Elim Chew is a highly sought public speaker on issues of youth matters, social entrepreneurship and work excellence. She has formally set up the speaker circuit programme to share her experiences and inspire our students, youths, educators, civil servants, working professionals and community on issues that are close to her heart.

Ms Chew is Founder and President of 77th Street (S) Pte Ltd, the leading youth and young adults streetwear fashion and accessories retail chain in Singapore with 13 outlets locally and a shopping mall in Xidan, Beijing called 77th Street Plaza. She is humbled by awards such as Most Promising Woman Entrepreneur in 2001 by the Singapore Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, Montblanc Businesswoman of the Year 2002, Young Woman Achiever 2003 by Singapore Press Holdings and Singapore Promising Brand Award 2004. She is honoured as a Forbes Asia’s Hero of Philanthropy 2010.

Currently, she sits on over 20 boards and committees of public service, youth and community organizations such as the Programming Committee of *SCAPE, an iconic youth community space; and the Culture & Education Action Crucibles for Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) of the Ministry of Trade and Industry Singapore.

Zoë Dean-Smith is the Managing Director of Visionary Growth & Development Consultants – a consulting company committed to developing SMME businesses while focusing on the importance of having a social mission. Visionary works in a mentoring capacity helping organizations with conceptual strategy, project management and the refinement of existing infrastructures.

In January 1999, Zoe was invited by the late Jenny Thorne to join her in the Gone Rural business, a rural women’s development company, working with over 700 women. Zoe was the Managing Director of the Gone Rural, overseeing the marketing, human resource management, budgets / projections and logistical and administrative support for the company. In late 2006, Zoë accepted a one-year-long contract from the International Finance Corporation to develop and project-manage the creation and implementation of Gone Rural BoMake, a non-profit community development entity assisting Gone Rural’s 700 rural Swazi families with access to clean water, food security, HIV/AIDS support, women’s rights & literacy and youth entrepreneurship.

Zoe currently lives in Swaziland. Outside of the business environment, Zoe is actively involved in the Performing Arts and is a Trainer and Instructor in the Fitness arena.

She is a member of the Vital Voices Africa Advisory Board.

Frédéric Delmar is a professor in entrepreneurship at the Department of Strategy and Organization at EMLYON Business School.

Frédéric Delmar is also one of the initiative takers of the GEP ( Global Entrepreneurship Program) and now program director of this Master program started in fall 2009. This is a twelve month program were around 25 students from three schools (EMLYON Business School, Babson College and Zhejiang University) study together. They spend four months at each school. Delmar has designed the program.

He is also affiliated to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden. He took his PhD at Stockholm School of Economics. His main research interest lies in the early development of new ventures as well as organizational growth. He finds the behavioral aspects of entrepreneurship to be particularly interesting.

His work has been published in a number of journals like Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and books.