Golden Equator's Shirley Crystal Chua: Spotting trends and riding them

Very early in her career, Shirley Crystal Chua had ambitions to strike out on her own. “People around me had been telling me that I had the personality and resilience to be an entrepreneur,” the founding partner and chief executive of asset management and private equity firm Golden Equator Capital Pte. Ltd (GEC) said, asked about her decision to leave Citibank (Singapore) in 2012, after an eight-year stint with the bank.