We recently had the pleasure to welcome Raymond Abelin to a dinner with the Zurich community. Currently Director of the Nanyang Technopreneurship Center at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU), one of the best entrepreneurship programs with a focus on technology. He was visiting Switzerland last week and contacted us to help him get in touch with some of the most interesting young entrepreneurs in town. We talked of course about entrepreneurship, and about the challenge to teach it in academic institutions. Raymond teaches creative thinking and we exchanged opinions about cultural differences between the West and Asia, where entrepreneurship is often a mindset that needs to be developed.

Raymond is a person with a very large experience in a wide range of domains: he began his career in Hollywood’s entertainment industry in the 1970′s, animating Scooby Doo series for Hanna Barbera Productions, moved to writing and directing, real estate, design and now to the academic field as a Professor and program Director at NTU.

Antoine is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Sandbox. Besides the discussions, he also very much enjoyed the delicious pizza of Michelangelo in Zurich.