Straight-talking, multi-Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsey was relatively unknown to TV audiences in Singapore until the Asian Food Channel (AFC) began broadcasting his Hell’s Kitchen series. Described as the region’s first and only 24-hour pay channel devoted to matters culinaire, AFC broadcasts food and food-related programmes from cooking, game and travel shows to documentaries spanning the globe.
Maria Brown, cofounder and managing director for acquisitions and programming of the AFC, has spent over 14 years in the international media industry. She joined the BBC at the age of 21, moving on to management positions including senior producer at its London headquarters and its New York bureau. Brown worked on many innovative programmes including “Watchdog”, a consumer advocacy series, and also covered Saddam Hussein’s capture ‘live’.
Brown, who is based in Singapore where the AFC was launched in 2005, delivered a talk at the Singapore Management University recently on “Ten lessons to have a successful career” as part of the Wee Kim Wee Centre CEO Talks Series. Beginning at the bottom of the list, Brown worked her way up the ten key lessons which are summarised in the extracts below.
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