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CNBC is the undisputed world leader in business news and information, providing viewers the world over with insight, analysis and real-time access to market data and indispensable business information. CNBC is uniquely positioned to speak to viewers across the region. Headquartered in Singapore, the network provides 10 hours of live Asia-produced programming, which is complemented with coverage of live market action from Europe and the US. CNBC channels in Asia Pacific, which include CNBC Asia, CNBC-TV18 (India), Nikkei-CNBC (Japan) are available in more than 34 countries across the Asia Pacific region. CNBC also has a strategic alliance with China Business Network, a subsidiary of the Shanghai Media Group. The channels are distributed via satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcast networks.

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Malaysia Airlines, the national carrier of Malaysia, is recognised as one of Asia's largest, flying more than 48,000 passengers to over 110 destinations across 6 continents every day. Currently operating 111 aircraft, Malaysia Airlines' fleet is one of the world's youngest, dominated by Boeing 737s, 747s and 777s, the most technically advanced aircraft in the sky today.

Malaysia Airlines holds a lengthy record of service and best practice excellence, having received more than 100 awards in the last 10 years. It was the first airline to win the "World's Best Cabin Crew" award by Skytrax UK for four consecutive years from 2001 to 2004. It was also recently rated "5-star airline" by Skytrax. For more information, visit www.malaysiaairlines.com



Oracle's business is information - how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from  their business systems. Oracle customers around the world have improved their ability to use information and IT as strategic assets and are now able to share data and processes, measure results for continuous improvement, align stakeholders, and communicate a single truth to all their constituents.

For more information about Oracle, please visit www.oracle.com/ea.

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. is the world's premier provider of senior-level executive search and leadership consulting services, including talent management, board building, executive on-boarding and M&A effectiveness.  For more than 50 years, Heidrick & Struggles has focused on quality service and built strong leadership teams through their relationship with clients and individuals worldwide. Today, Heidrick & Struggles leadership experts operate from principal business centers in Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America.

For more information about Heidrick & Struggles, please visit www.heidrick.com.

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Founded in 1898, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (GSB) is a Nobel Prize-winning powerhouse. It is recognized globally for producing world-changing ideas and extremely well prepared graduates.

Chicago GSB is known for its world-renowned faculty, which includes more Nobel Prize winners than all other business schools in the world combined. It is also the first business school to have a Nobel Laureate on its faculty and is also the first and only business school to have had 6 Nobel Prize winning faculty members.

The GSB is also the first business school to offer a Ph.D. program in Business back in 1920. And it is also the first to offer an Executive MBA program back in 1943.

The Chicago GSB Asia campus in Singapore, which opened five years ago, attracts executives throughout Asia and other countries to its Executive MBA program. The part-time Executive MBA program prepares high-potential managers and experienced professionals for positions of greater responsibility. The program includes joint residential sessions in London, Chicago and Singapore with students from all three campuses that are fully owned by the GSB. The Executive MBA program offered in the Asia campus (in Singapore) is exactly the same program offered in the London and Chicago campuses and is taught by the same faculty who teaches in all GSB programs.

The GSB supports an active network of more than 39,000 alumni around the globe. These graduates lead and succeed in every possible industry including some 5,500 CEOs and top officers of firms worldwide.

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Development Dimensions International (DDI) is is a global human resource consulting company specialising in leadership development. DDI was established in 1970 by two organisational psychologists William C. Byham, PhD. And Douglas W. Bray PhD.

DDI has helped to assess and develop more than 10 million leaders in organisations worldwide. More than 15 million people have benefited from participation in one or more of DDI's leadership training or assessment systems. Their newly acquired skills have influenced the work lives of more than 200 million employees.

Organisations have hired more than 15 million people using DDI's selection systems. More than 200 plant start-ups and expansions have used DDI to totally staff their new facilities with high performance workforces.

For more than three decades in Asia, DDI has worked closely with numerous multinational corporations, who count on its local consultants' understanding of local cultural and business practices to provide consistent worldwide applications of its solutions.

Today, close to one third of DDI's business is done outside of North America through its network of 75 offices in 26 countries. In Asia, DDI has operations in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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