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IPS Roundtable in the City
"The Singapore FreePort Story" |
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Mr Alain Vandenborre
President
The Singapore FreePort
Date: 19 August 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 12.30 pm to 2.15 pm (Registration begins at 12.15 pm)
Venue: Shangri-La Hotel, Ballroom Tower B, Level 1
Dress Code: Business Attire
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Alain Vandenborre is an entrepreneur who thinks out of the box. A few years ago, he and his Swiss partner, Yves Bouvier, Chairman of Natural Le Coultre, had a vision. The vision was to develop in Singapore a unique "Fort Knox" type of facility for high value collectibles, located at Changi Airport. The FreePort would offer international auction houses, art dealers, fine art logistic companies, private collectors, a world class facility in which they could store and trade freely their precious collections. Owners could view their collections, and transactions could take place, in an environment of security, beauty and serenity. This has been realised as The Singapore FreePort.
Mr Vandenborre will tell us the story of how he and his Swiss partners operating at the Geneva FreePort have turned this vision into a market reality and developed for Singapore an iconic and technological masterpiece with state-of-the-art security, climate control and amazing artistic features that will open its doors this year in December.
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| About the speaker |
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Alain Vandenborre is the co-founder and President of The Singapore FreePort Pte Ltd, a high-security storage and private exchange facility for high value collectibles. An entrepreneur and private investor, Mr. Vandenborre founded his first company at the age of 26, developing new laser technologies for microelectronic design applications. From 2000 to 2005, he co-founded Chinese YIFEI Fashion Group (Shanghai) and was co-founder and co-Chairman of Ravenel Art Group, a private art dealer and auction house company based in Taiwan. In 2004, he was also a founding Director in Singapore of the US firm Hamilton Lane, one of the largest alternative asset management firms in the world, with US$ 100 billion under management, and has served several years as Chairman of the Asia Pacific Venture Capital & Private Equity Association. He is a former Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer with Vivendi Group in Asia Pacific. Mr. Vandenborre holds an MA in Astrophysics from the University of Liege, an Optoelectronics Engineering degree from the University of Paris and a Post-graduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Brussels.
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