Plasticscommerce .com: The team
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The team, says Quek, is young, hardworking, and motivated. They need to be hardy, she admits, noting that quite a lot of travel is required to meet up with clients.
"You need an incredible amount of energy, and have to move fast and be prepared to change all the time - the Internet is changing a lot of traditional ways of doing business."
- Quek Mei Hsien
CEO, Plasticscommerce.com
Most of them are her peers in age, and a handful of them were with her to found the company from July 1999.
"I've never thought of age as a barrier," says Quek. "The Internet requires that you pick up a lot of things very fast - things are moving very fast."
"You need an incredible amount of energy, and have to move fast and be prepared to change all the time - the Internet is changing a lot of traditional ways of doing business."
"Having the title of CEO was the last thing on my mind frankly," she says. The Internet industry is one of the few, if not the only industry, that will allow young management to come up, she adds.
The company is looking for investors that will add value, "either by reputation or technological expertise", says Quek, and not just for the money.
The company intends to apply for IPO at the end of this year.
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