9. Interview with Lee Weng Seong

LEE Weng Seong remembers the day his father brought home a radio. It was nothing like today’s sleek digital gadgets that you can slip into your pocket. Lee’s father probably needed help to lug the radio into the house. It was the size of a cabinet, and was studded with chunky knobs and large dials. More than that, it had the power to enthral a boy in Ipoh with an abiding curiosity about how things functioned. “It was a fascinating thing. I looked at it and wondered how it produced sounds, music and news. That was our first Philips product. It never occurred to me that I would work for Philips one day,” he recalls. Close to 50 years later, he has clocked over two decades as a Philips executive and has become the first Malaysian to head the Dutch multinational corporation’s businesses here. Lee, 55, was appointed chairman and... [read full story]                    

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