Tan lay koon biography definition
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Tan lay koon biography definition
Nature Squared co-founder, Tan Lay Koon: Leaving finance to work with natural materials
It was in 2000 when Tan Lay Koon made the brave but risky decision to leave her cushy job in the finance industry at the height of the dot.com bubble.
Paul Hoeve, her business partner at accounting and consulting giant Arthur Andersen, quit as well, and both thought about doing something radically different in their next career move.
At the top of Lay Koon’s list of possibilities was establishing a company that would somehow benefit society, along with creating minimal environmental impact.
“We were particularly concerned that insufficient attention was being paid to sustainability,” she explains.
“We felt that most people were either apathetic or driven by a single issue (like climate change, social development or protecting endangered species). Few initiatives took a holistic multifaceted view of sustainability, balancing social, environmental and economic factors.”
That was when they laun