Mitchell Lee

Mitchell is a top Singapore student who did his tertiary education in the US at an Ivy League University. He graduated with a double major in Business Administration and Engineering and currently works in a first tier consulting firm in Singapore. Mitchell is the only child in a upper middle-class family whose parents are civil servants. He is inquisitive about the world and its phenomenon though he is not able to understand it all the time.

Sandra Chew

Sandra has been Mitchell’s girlfriend since secondary school and works as an analyst in a Fund Management House. She studied Banking and Finance locally and gave up a potential career in modeling for a career in finance. Sandra comes from a humble background, with a taxi-driver father and housewife mother. She is nice and down-to-earth though a little idealistic and gets upset when people or their behaviour fail her idealistic expectation of them.

Nancy Kwan

Nancy is Mitchell’s colleague in the consultancy firm who despite graduating from a top Australian University with a MBA, knows nuts about Management Theory. However she is neither spoilt nor arrogant despite her parents being wealthy business people. Nancy is a babe and dresses well, though sometimes a little too provocatively. She is hopelessly attracted to Mitchell, spurning the advances of all other suitors, in wait for him.

Maynard Keng

Maynard has been Mitchell’s classmate and best friend since secondary school. He choose to study in a local Singapore University and is currently doing his PhD in Economics. Maynard has the demeanour and attitude of a “weird genius” who has a dismal yet strangely realistic comment an explanation for everything. He firmly believes that “no one is an altruist”.  But once you strip away the cynical economist exterior, Maynard is a closet romantic, who carries a torch for Sandra.

Uncle Bob

Uncle Bob is a retired Eurasian guy in his late 50s. He is now lecturing part-time and also advises some small and medium companies. Uncle Bob started off as a young accounts assistant and worked his way up to be a CFO of a MNC. He has been Mitchell’s neighbour for more than 10 years and readily shares his vast wealth of knowledge, experience and insights on Finance-related issues with anyone who cares to engage him in a proper intellectual exchange.

Auntie Hua

Auntie Hua is a 40 plus Chinese lady who works as a fish monger in a wet market. This market is in Mitchell’s neighbourhood and Mitchell has known Auntie Hua for more than 10 years. She speaks Queen’s English and is extremely quick witted with a sharp tongue to match. Auntie Hua is very frank and outspoken and loves to comment on issues relating to Management Theory with great wisdom and free of management jargon. She is an elegant, friendly and dignified lady.

Igor Ramos Ting

Igor or Iggy for short is Mitchell’s boss and Management Partner in the consultancy firm. He is in his 50s and is of mixed blood but acts and speaks like a British Aristocrat. Borned in Hong Kong, Simon has been a big wig in the Consultancy Business as well as Financial Institutions. Besides his main job, he also has various investments/business on the side. He looks down and belittles theory and academics, believing instead in gut instinct and being street-smart, as well as his big philosophies base on his experiences.

Philippe Liew

Philippe is in his thirties and used to be a top insurance agent cum financial planner with a local insurance company. He was disgruntled with the bureaucracy and working practices there and left to run his own Personal Financing outfit. Philippe is rather egoistic despite not being much of a thinker and has a bad habit of shooting his mouth off on anything and everything, right or wrong. As a long time neighbour of Sandra, he has been trying hard to woo her to no avail.

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