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Tan Chin-Hwee

Chairman

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

Trafigura boss credits mentors for his success and is passionate about passing lessons onYou sit down to talk business with a champion investor like <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/profiles/51" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="accounts:51">Tan Chin-Hwee</a> and before you know it, he has guided the conversation to his favourite topic, mentoring.It is a huge passion with the Hwa Chong and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) graduate, who cannot speak five sentences without mentioning either the breaks he has received thanks to a caring mentor, or the dozens of youngsters currently rising in the world of business who have come under his benign watch.If your life's journey began in a one-room apartment in Toa Payoh's Lorong 6, and you went on to become a millionaire in your 30s and hit the apex of the investing world by the time you were 40, you would have reason to feel a bit dizzy at the pace. Yet, if the soft, measured pace at which he speaks is any indication, Mr Tan is not at all breathless from the ride.<iframe width="10" height="10" id="google_ads_iframe_/5908/st/imu1/opinion_0" title="3rd party ad content" name="google_ads_iframe_/5908/st/imu1/opinion_0" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" srcdoc=""></iframe>When I met him on a Monday morning, his excitement was about a bunch of youngsters he had just breakfasted with, and a teacher he had encouraged to make the attempt to climb Mount Everest.

Trafigura boss credits mentors for his success and is passionate about passing lessons onYou sit down to talk business with a champion investor like Tan Chin-Hwee and before you know it, he has guided the conversation to his favourite topic, mentoring.It is a huge passion with the Hwa Chong and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) graduate, who cannot speak five sentences without mentioning either the breaks he has received thanks to a caring mentor, or the dozens of youngsters currently rising in the world of business who have come under his benign watch.If your life's journey began in a one-room apartment in Toa Payoh's Lorong 6, and you went on to become a millionaire in your 30s and hit the apex of the investing world by the time you were 40, you would have reason to feel a bit dizzy at the pace. Yet, if the soft, measured pace at which he speaks is any indication, Mr Tan is not at all breathless from the ride.When I met him on a Monday morning, his excitement was about a bunch of youngsters he had just breakfasted with, and a teacher he had encouraged to make the attempt to climb Mount Everest.

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