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Sylvia Yu Friedman is a Director at Zab Capital Holdings, providing strategic advisory services to family offices globally and specializing in professional sports team transactions. In addition, Sylvia serves as a Luminary Thinker for RedBoxMe in collaboration with Cartier, an innovative platform focused on leadership and creativity. As an author with Penguin Random House SEA, Sylvia has published three books, with an upcoming novel titled "Butterflies" anticipated for spring 2025 and "Fearless: A Guide to Freedom and Fulfilling Your Fullest Potential" set for release on October 30, 2024. As an Ambassador and Volunteer Fundraiser for The Mekong Club, Sylvia contributes to efforts against modern slavery. Other notable roles include serving as a jury member for the Asian Academy Creative Awards and an Executive Producer at Issachar Productions, with a history in journalism and philanthropy as a former China Program/Fund Manager for Geneva Global. Sylvia is an alumnus of The University of British Columbia.
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The Mekong Club is a catalyst for change, uniting and mobilizing businesses to bring about sustainable practices towards the fight against modern slavery. Given that the majority of modern-day slavery exists in the private sector, these companies are ideally placed to help turn the tide of this global epidemic. The only organisation of its kind, The Mekong Club steers away from the approach taken by other players in this space, which is to ‘name and shame’ companies – ousting bad behaviour or issues related to this subject. Instead, we believe in starting and ending with collaboration. In fact, The Mekong Club originally formed as a direct response to the growing number of companies looking to develop strategies to address forced labour risk through a professional forum. Divided into industry-specific working groups, these networks meet regularly to learn, share best practices, and network with other like-minded professionals. Member companies also work together to achieve an annual deliverable which will work towards producing tangible results in the fight against forced labour. We have identified four industries within the private sector that we believe have the greatest opportunity to impact change. They are: financial services, apparel & footwear, hospitality providers and retailers. LinkedIn disclaimer: The Mekong Club reserves the right to remove comments that are not on topic, abusive or use bad language.