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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
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Dress code: Smart Casual |
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JR Group helps businesses serve up quality meals while reducing costs, increasing revenues and productivity with less resources. In doing so it has changed the way the local food industry manufactures ready-to-serve meals for both the B2B and B2C sectors.
In 2008, the company created Chef-In-Box, the first hot food vending machine in Singapore and in 2016, it introduced the world’s first fully-automated and unmanned vending machine restaurant, the Chef-In-Box Vendcafé.
Join Ms Jocelyn Chng, founder and CEO of JR Group as she talks about how her company has revolutionised the food industry in Singapore and beyond. Be inspired and learn what it means to run a business that means more than just a business.
Prof Sheryl E. Kimes, Visiting Professor of Analytics and Operations, NUS Business School, will moderate the Q&A session.
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Jocelyn Chng
Group CEO, JR Group Holdings
The NUS Executive MBA, Class of 2012
Jocelyn Chng, Group CEO of JR Group Holdings, has over 30 years of experience in food manufacturing and service industries. Graduating with a BA and EMBA from the National University of Singapore, she took over the running of the family’s sauce manufacturing business, Sin Hwa Dee, at the age of 21 and went on to start another food manufacturing company, JR Group, in 2001. Jocelyn has won numerous entrepreneurial, business and innovation awards, including Woman Entrepreneur (2001) by ASME for her enterprise and innovative ideas, the Montblanc Businesswoman of the year (2003), NUS Eminent Alumni Award (2016), Great Women of Our Time, 2017 (Finance & Commerce Sector) and EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ Asia-Pacific (2018).
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Sheryl E. Kimes
Visiting Professor, Analytics and Operations, NUS Business School
Sheryl E. Kimes is a Visiting Professor of Analytics and Operations at the Business School at the National University of Singapore and an Emeritus Professor of Operations Management at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Her area of specialization is revenue management. She has been teaching, conducting research and providing consulting services in this area for over 25 years. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters and has received multiple awards for her research including the Lifetime Achievement Award by the College of Service Operations of the Production and Operations Management Society, as well as various teaching awards. In 2014, she was honored with the Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellowship from Cornell University.
Professor Kimes also serves as a consultant to many business enterprises around the world including Fairmont Raffles Hotels International, American Airlines, Walt Disney World Resorts and Marina Bay Sands.
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