by Ravi Balakrishnan | Jul 11, 2019 | Euro RSCG, Features, How I got Here, MullenLowe Group, Razorfish, Vincent Digonnet
EducationI was born in St Etienne, France, but grew up in Marseille where I developed most of the traits that define me now. I learned to ski at five, horse riding at seven and playing the guitar at 11, and these activities remain my passion to this day. As a...
by Ravi Balakrishnan | May 30, 2019 | Features, Grey Singapore, How I got Here, Tim Cheng
Education Growing up in Hong Kong in the 1970s, my childhood education was supposed to pave the way for my eventual success as a respectable medical doctor with a law degree who could play the piano professionally, as a hobby. To my parents’ dismay, despite the...
by Ravi Balakrishnan | May 30, 2019 | Features, Grey Singapore, How I got Here, Tim Cheng
Education Growing up in Hong Kong in the 1970s, my childhood education was supposed to pave the way for my eventual success as a respectable medical doctor with a law degree who could play the piano professionally, as a hobby. To my parents’ dismay, despite the...
by Ravi Balakrishnan | Apr 30, 2019 | Anthony Larmon, Era Myanmar, Features, How I got Here
Education I was born and raised outside Fort Worth, Texas. Not how one expects the story to begin for an expatriate now living in Yangon – but as I tell people, you rarely choose Myanmar; it chooses you. I went to a Catholic high school where I, along with my...
by Ravi Balakrishnan | Apr 24, 2019 | Google, How I got Here, Matthew Wigham, News
Education I grew up in South London in a small town called Wallington and depending on who I am talking to, I either say I am from Surrey or Croydon, as people have heard of both for very different reasons. I was educated at a tiny school called Collingwood Boys and...
by Dean Carroll | Mar 11, 2019 | Essence, Features, How I got Here, Veli Aghdiran
Education I grew up in North London. At the age of 10, like most of my friends I took examinations to get into secondary school. Despite being absolutely convinced that I’d failed, I found out that I’d made the cut. I assumed they must have made some kind of mistake,...
