Going Against the Grain

A former civil servant, Mr Martino Tan (Public Policy ‘09) took a leap of faith and quit his job when the opportunity came to set up a news website — and today Mothership.sg has proved it was worth the gamble.

One of Singapore’s leading champions of marine conservation, scientist Dr Neo Mei Lin (Science ’09, PhD ’13) shares why bringing research out of the lab, and into everyday lives, matters.

Mr Shabbir Hussain Mustafa (Arts and Social Sciences + USP ’07) talks about his journey to becoming one of the most notable museum curators in the region.  

Partners in life and in business, Ms Pranoti Nagarkar (Engineering ’03) and Mr Rishi Israni (Computing ’03) turned a dinner conversation into the world’s first flatbread-making robot, Rotimatic.

Having triumphed over adversity and turned the lessons learned into a business model, Ms Roslyn Teng (Yale-NUS ’19) is certainly not nuts — she just wants to sell you some.

Co-founders of honestbee, Mr Isaac Timothy Tay (Engineering ’06) and  Mr Jonathan Low (Engineering ’13), share their entrepreneurial journey and future plans, and tell us why 
change is the only constant in today’s economy.

By the age of 22, Ms Payal Lal (Yale-NUS ‘17) had started three companies as an undergraduate. She shares the secrets to her bold approach to life and learning.

Having triumphed over addiction and adversity,  professional award-winning clown Mr Edmund Khong  (Arts and Social Sciences ’05) is now having the last laugh.