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HK11: Jim Beighley โ€“ American Expat came to Asia as a young man, built a home and never left

๐‡๐Š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ: ๐‰๐ข๐ฆ ๐๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ž๐ฒ โ€“ ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐€๐ฌ๐ข๐š ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง, ๐›๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐š ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ญ (Full)

๐๐จ๐ญ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ:

โ€œ๐‘Šโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘š๐‘Ž๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘  ๐ป๐พ ๐‘ ๐‘œ ๐‘ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘ฆ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ. ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘š๐‘’๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘š ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘™ ๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘. ๐ผ๐‘กโ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘’๐‘› ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘–๐‘Ž๐‘™, ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘“๐‘Ž๐‘ ๐‘ก-๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ฃ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’.โ€

โ€œ๐ผ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‘๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐ด๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘Ž, ๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘”๐‘™๐‘œ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ , ๐ป๐พ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘“๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก๐‘™๐‘ฆ ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘. ๐‘Š๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž ๐‘Ž ๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘“๐‘™๐‘–๐‘”โ„Ž๐‘ก, ๐‘ฆ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘”๐‘’๐‘ก ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’๐‘  ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘.โ€

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐‘œ๐‘‘ ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐‘“๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘š๐‘’ ๐‘คโ„Ž๐‘’๐‘› ๐ผ ๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ž๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘  โ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ค ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘โ„Ž ๐‘’๐‘›๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘”๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ . ๐ด๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐ผ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘–๐‘›๐‘˜ ๐ป๐พ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘™๐‘ค๐‘Ž๐‘ฆ๐‘  ๐‘˜๐‘’๐‘๐‘ก ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก. ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘’๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘’๐‘‘.โ€

โ€œ๐‘Œ๐‘œ๐‘ข ๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘› ๐‘Ž ๐‘๐‘Ž๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘™๐‘‘ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”, ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘‘๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘กโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘ก ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘”๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘› ๐‘–๐‘›๐‘ก๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘›๐‘” ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘›๐‘Ž๐‘š๐‘–๐‘ ๐‘”๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘“ ๐‘๐‘’๐‘œ๐‘๐‘™๐‘’ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘ค๐‘œ๐‘Ÿ๐‘˜ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘กโ„Ž.โ€

โ€œ๐ผ ๐‘Ž๐‘š ๐‘š๐‘œ๐‘ ๐‘ก ๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘‘ ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘œ๐‘ข๐‘ก ๐ป๐พโ€™๐‘  ๐‘Ÿ๐‘’๐‘ ๐‘–๐‘™๐‘–๐‘’๐‘›๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘  ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘–๐‘™๐‘–๐‘ก๐‘ฆ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘’๐‘š๐‘๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘š๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘ก๐‘–๐‘๐‘ข๐‘™๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘Ÿ๐‘Ž๐‘™ ๐‘ ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘–๐‘’๐‘ก๐‘ฆ.โ€

โ€œ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘’ ๐‘–๐‘  ๐‘›๐‘œ ๐‘๐‘™๐‘Ž๐‘๐‘’ ๐‘™๐‘–๐‘˜๐‘’ ๐ป๐พ.โ€

๐†๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž:

Jim is presently CEO of Citadel Pacific Ltd, a diversified private holding company.ย  He leads companyโ€™s Pacific islands businesses. ย He was on the board of Citadel for nearly nine years before joining as CEO in 2019.

Prior to Citadel, Jim worked at DFS group, a luxury travel retailer, as EVP Strategy & Business Development. ย He worked at DFS for 21 years in many different roles.ย  Previously, Jim worked as President of Bluebells, a HK based distribution company for nearly 5 years.

Originally from USA, Jim studied at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan and graduated from the University of California in Santa Barbara with a bachelorโ€™s degree in economics and Chinese.