This year카지노 게임 컬렉션s Jim Bennett Achievement Award recipient, Peng-Sang Cau, Com카지노 게임 컬렉션94, has not let a seemingly impossible childhood stand between her and success. Instead, she draws strength from it.
Peng grew up in Cambodia in the 1970s under the infamous rule of the Khmer Rouge, a political regime responsible for a genocide that killed as many as 1/3 of its citizens. As a result of their social engineering policies, Peng카지노 게임 컬렉션s family was ordered to give up their successful bicycle business and live on a collective farm. One day her oldest sister was taken by soldiers and never seen again. The family eventually made it to a refugee camp across the border and then to Regina when she was just 10 years old.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Hopefully you take your past 카지노 게임 컬렉션 even the really bad, ugly stuff 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and learn from it to shape yourself into a stronger human being,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Peng.
Peng went on to earn a scholarship to attend Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s and today she is the chief executive officer of , an innovative Kingston-based company that developed and manufactured its revolutionizing assembly technologies call CNCAsembly™ systems and products for manufacturing firms around the world.
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Peng took time out of her busy schedule to talk about her childhood, what makes Transformix so successful, and how attending Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s changed her life.
Q: Where does your entrepreneurial spirit come from?
A: I come from a very poor background. I was a refugee and came to Canada when I was 10. From a very young age I swore that I would never be poor. One incident that has always stood out happened when I was young. My whole family had to work and help save money so I had to help clean offices. I remember this one pivotal point in my life when I was cleaning the ash tray in an executive카지노 게임 컬렉션s office. I was about 11 or 12 and it just grossed me out. From that day on I said 카지노 게임 컬렉션I카지노 게임 컬렉션ll never be poor again. I카지노 게임 컬렉션ll never be in this situation again.카지노 게임 컬렉션 That카지노 게임 컬렉션s a tiny part of what drove me. Being an entrepreneur is in my blood. Everyone in my family are entrepreneurs. My family had a business in Cambodia before the war so I grew up listening to their stories.
Q: What카지노 게임 컬렉션s the secret to success for Transformix?
A: It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not much of a secret. In Canada we don카지노 게임 컬렉션t have the luxury of cheap labour and we have high standards of safety. So in order for us to succeed against other countries Transformix has to focus on innovation and always being one step ahead of our competitors in terms of developing relevant new technologies. At the end of the day, you have to ask the question 카지노 게임 컬렉션Is the technology solving the problem for the market space you are in? What problem is it solving?카지노 게임 컬렉션 And I think we are very good at identifying that. The other part of our success is the combination of having a business person and engineers. One of my partners, Ken Nicholson, Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션92, says 카지노 게임 컬렉션Without me, Peng would have nothing to sell. Without Peng, the company wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t exist.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Q: How was your Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s experience?
A: If I didn카지노 게임 컬렉션t go to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s I wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t be where I am today. Regina was a small community at the time. Coming to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s was quite an awakening. It was exposure to the international community. I met a lot of amazing professors who exposed me to other parts of the world and the concept of international business.
Q: Was there one class or professor that had an impact on you?
A: There were a lot of great professors at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. I took a couple of business courses with Professor Lorna Wright 카지노 게임 컬렉션 who is no longer at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. I worked for her for a summer watching business negotiation videos. What that taught me is that almost all big CEOs from around the world speak English and there is a misconception that if they speak English then they act like us. That is not true at all. You have to appreciate the cultural aspects. So no matter what part of the world I am travelling to I usually pick up a book on how to do business in that region. It is about understanding the subtleties that nobody tells you about. I did an exchange with Professor Don Macnamara to Europe in 1992 and it was eye opening to me. I was a poor refugee kid who had never travelled outside of Regina when I came to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s. My world was very tiny and then I am travelling to Europe and being exposed to international organizations. So Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s exposed me to a world I would have never experienced.
Q: How did you overcome such a horrific childhood? Does what you experienced stay with you today?
A: The beautiful part of life and being a child is you can always move on. All you need is love, kindness and opportunity, and I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve been blessed with all of that. Hopefully you take your past 카지노 게임 컬렉션 even the really bad, ugly stuff 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and learn from it to shape yourself into a stronger human being. My past gives me a lot of perspective. When I was going through my divorce, I remember my sister telling me 카지노 게임 컬렉션You survived two wars and a refugee camp. What can카지노 게임 컬렉션t you do?카지노 게임 컬렉션 That statement stays with me today. I feel like I can survive anything now.
Q: How does it feel to receive the Jim Bennett Achievement Award?
A: I feel very honoured but I also feel like a bit of a fraud. I don카지노 게임 컬렉션t go through my life thinking 카지노 게임 컬렉션Oh my God I am so successful.카지노 게임 컬렉션 What I do is normal day-to-day stuff. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s what I do every day. I come in and run the company. I don카지노 게임 컬렉션t spend time evaluating my success. I know I still have a lot more to achieve in my life.
Please join the Kingston alumni Branch in honouring Peng and Padre Laverty Award recipient David Pattenden, Arts'67, MA'69, Law'71, MEd'74, at the Padre Laverty and Jim Bennett Awards Dinner on May 28. Register online until May 21.
