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Corporate
The Team
Meet the corporate team behind Jaime Alexander.
Founder · CEO · Managing Director
Jaime Terauds
A serial entrepreneur and inventor with over 25 years’ experience as a successful business person with a proven ability to delegate, inspire and lead while looking at the bigger picture to create and deliver strategies which achieve business goals.
Chairman
Marc-Olivier Francq
A career banker with over 20 years of experience in the wealth management industry, working with companies including Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank and UBP.
Director of Design
Steven Tynan
Steven is a breath of fresh air in the design arena, a lateral thinker with a very utilitarian approach to design. Steven’s passion for the aesthetic enables him to create furniture and designs which transcend the boundaries of what our products should or could be.
Chief Financial Officer
Sean Choo
A financial-services expert with over 15 years of management consulting and industry experience, specialising in retail banking, wealth and private banking, and wholesale banking. Sean’s experience spans strategy development, customer analytics, risk management, digital banking, proposition design, customer experience, productivity improvement and end-to-end process redesign.
Director of R&D
Don Hunter
Don heads the research and development teams and manages relationships with industrial-design partners D+I and the ilipa Innovation Hub.
Don is a multi-disciplinary research scientist and technical professional with over 20 years of experience in STEM fields. He has published reports and publications in fields ranging from research and development of geophysical systems to oil and gas exploration.
Chief Technology Officer
Ranjeet Rustogi
Ranjeet is responsible for in-house technology decisions, implementation of ERP and CRM knowledge-management tools, evaluation of IoT platforms and smart-home integration standards, and liaison with external partners to ensure software design, UX and UI complement the Jaime Alexander approach and design philosophy.
Chief Information Officer
Thomas Cheah
Thomas is a seasoned IT professional responsible for implementation of ERP and CRM knowledge-management tools, intra-channel communication, web strategy and e-commerce direction.
Chief Marketing Officer
Carol Sun
A media-marketing executive with over 12 years’ experience in the United States and Asia-Pacific for entertainment companies including Disney and Universal, Carol has defined and rolled out marketing strategies and executed promotions across a dozen countries.
VP Channel Development
Christine Kreplins
Christine has worked both as a seller and a buyer and is experienced across the retail industry. She was previously Chief Compliance Officer for Courts Mammoth and General Manager of Harvey Norman Malaysia.
Christine is responsible for coordinating the international channel-recruitment strategy.
Digital Content Director
Ivon Smith
Ivon creates and coordinates digital content across offline and online platforms. The role includes creating virtual 3D versions of products using 360 photography and CGI modelling, then exporting interactive media to mobile, desktop and VR platforms to support training, sales and communication.
Marketing Advisor
Zayn Khan
Zayn started his career in branding and communications as a WPP Fellow in the United Kingdom. He moved to Asia with Ogilvy & Mather and went on to lead its Malaysia office.
With a background in architecture, Zayn is fascinated by the interplay between design, brand and culture.
Manufacturing
Daniel O’Leary
Daniel has a long career in manufacturing and was Director of Manufacturing for Christopher Guy. During his time there, Daniel oversaw the establishment of corporate structures in Indonesia and the creation of a mixed-media manufacturing plant with over 2,000 product lines.
Coating Technology
Kris Torma
Over the past 20 years Kris has directed Axolotl to success in awards for business, innovation and creativity, including five International Design Awards and the National Business and GIO Product Innovation Award.
Kris’s skills blend business management, manufacturing and project management with design and creativity.
Cookware & Accessories
Tung Wei Hsiao
Tung Wei comes from a multi-generational family of cookware manufacturers. His grandfather founded Buffalo Cookware in Taiwan after the Second World War.
Tung Wei specialises in rapid product development and creating OEM partnerships to build high-end boutique cookware brands.