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The Peak speaks to Alexis Chun CEO and co-founder of Singapore-based legal tech start-up Legalese.

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The Peak speaks to Durreen Shahnaz, founder of Impact Investment Exchange and the She Is More Initiative.

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The Peak speaks to Durreen Shahnaz, founder of Impact Investment Exchange and the She Is More Initiative.

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Samuel Chan is a well known name amongst parents in Hong Kong. Why? Because he’s the name behind education consultancy Britannia Studylink, one of Hong Kong’s busiest and fastest growing start-up companies. Established in 2013, the company has attracted attention from various funds looking to tap into its growth and has won numerous awards, including Hong Kong Brand Development Council's 2017 Top Service Brand Award as well as the 2019 Premier Hong Kong Brand Award, becoming the first education centre to achieve this.

Coming from a humble background and ironically not performing very outstandingly in his educational years in Hong Kong, Chan attended a summer camp in the U.K. at the young age of nine which proved to be a pivotal moment in his life. Opening his eyes to the differences between the attitudes and systems in education between Hong Kong and the U.K., and setting the momentum for the rest of his academic career in the U.K., the young entrepreneur attended Gresham’s school and then went on to study at the University of Nottingham and University of Warwick.

[inline-quote author="Samuel Chan"]"I feel if I had to sell any financial product, I wouldn’t be the best at it as I don’t know enough. I might know more than the clients, but I have no full picture as to how the financial market works – I mean, who does? But for U.K. education, I am a benefactor of it, it changed my life forever, I think I can do a bloody good job introducing it."[/inline-quote]

Previously, school selection for residents of Hong Kong has been very transactional, with very little efforts put towards finding the right school for each child. Chan decided instead to educate parents by discussing topics that weren't previously talked about, such as why they should look beyond league tables before applications and what questions should be asked when school shopping. The market in turn responded very positively – parents’ attitudes towards education changed with the establishment of his company, resulting in the development of Britannia Studylink from a one man band sending a dozen of kids to school in the U.K. to what it is now -- two offices in Hong Kong working to send over 800 pupils to the U.K. each year, making up almost half of the Hong Kong market.

[caption id="attachment_205745" align="alignnone" width="725"] Oundle School, an independent co-educational boarding and day school in the town of Oundle in Northamptonshire, U.K. that Britannia Studylink works with[/caption]

What brings him the most satisfaction, however, is not helping students get into the best universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, but rather helping pupils that were perhaps a bit like him when he was a boy, discouraged by the education system in Hong Kong.

[inline-quote author="Samuel Chan"]"To see them go to the U.K., make a change, thrive, and return a better person is much more satisfying for me than placing an already bright young pupil into a top institution"[/inline-quote]

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Gillian Tee's Homage app matches the elderly with screened caregivers to give peace of mind.

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Gillian Tee's Homage app matches the elderly with screened caregivers to give peace of mind.

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The co-founder of luxury minimalist brand Linjer explains what it’s like constructing a business from scratch.

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Google has teamed up with the wunderkind who brought the world photo word game 4 Snaps to develop what appears to be a social-gaming startup.

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Google has teamed up with the wunderkind who brought the world photo word game 4 Snaps to develop what appears to be a social-gaming startup.

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Trailblazers under 40: Co-founder of Golden Gate Ventures is a familiar name in the circle, with a track record with A-tier startups.

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Trailblazers under 40: Co-founder of Golden Gate Ventures is a familiar name in the circle, with a track record with A-tier startups.

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Pundi-Pundi pioneered Alipay-style payments in Indonesia. Spin-off Pundi X will now do the same with cryptocurrencies

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