Organisers

The international GEC is organised by Scottish Enterprise representative, Gordon McVie. Gordon McVie is Enterprise in Education Manager for Careers Scotland, creators and organisers of the Global Enterprise Challenge, formerly known as the Enterprise Olympics. Gordon has been involved in enterprise education for over ten years and was the architect of ëDeveloping an Enterprise Culture in Scotland ñ From Primary 1 to Plcí, a strategic approach to youth enterprise that has been acknowledged worldwide.

Gordon first conceived the idea for the Enterprise Olympics after a successful challenge run simultaneously for students in Edinburgh and Dunedin, New Zealand, in June 2000. The first global event was held in June 2002, and was launched by the astronauts on the International Space Station, courtesy of NASA who have continued to support the event as has the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) a Geneva based UN Agency.

The Young Entrepreneur Centre is the organiser for the ASEC and GEC events in Singapore. Dr Ben Chan is the Executive Director of NTC’s Young Entrepreneur Centre that provides enterprise education to primary and secondary schools. This is a resource centre where young entrepreneurs come for counseling, training and consultation about their venture creation and sustenance. In Singapore, 30% of schools are in the Young Enterprise Program (YEP). The synergetic collaboration between the Centre and Enterprise Education International is an integrated reciprocal option for Singapore and New Zealand. With over 27 years experience as a strategic marketer in global markets, Ben has acquired a rich diversity of commercial and academic experiences that encompass marketing of engineering and industrial products, marketing of consumer products, services marketing and general management. As Adjunct Professor at Singapore Management University, Vancouver University and visiting professor at several universities in Australia, USA and the UK, he lectures in the international circuits on International Marketing, Services Marketing, International Business Strategies, Marketing Research, Consumer Behaviour and Entrepreneurship. Ben’s area of research is on family business succession in the Asia Pacific region. Therefore, enterprise education for youth in Singapore schools, is a strategic approach to the successful family business succession.