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Student’s Tea with Mr Jefferson Soh
Host: Wayne Wee
Jefferson together with his wife, Candice, started one of the first cat cafes in Singapore, managing every part of the cafe from taking care of cats to implementing IT systems for limited resources.
Jefferson has over 6 years of working experiences with small business, start-ups, managing multiple projects consecutively ranging from a few thousand dollars to a few hundred thousand in both engineering base industry and IT industry.
He is also an NUS graduate, he graduated with a Degree in Industrial and System Engineering, before going onto The University of Western Australia to complete his Master in Business Administration.
Jefferson was invited to speak at an event held by NUS NOC on entrepreneurship back in 2015. He will be able to give useful advice and insight to potential entrepreneurs in Tembusu. For Jefferson and Candice, they managed to integrate their interest in cats together with a profit-making business. He will share on the obstacles they faced and what they did to overcome them. From this talk, students will be inspired to chase their own passion and dreams.
7 March 2017, 7pm – 9pm
Common Lounge, Tembusu College
+65 6601 2150