So I guess we’ll start off with your background like where you were born and raised, where you studied, your major, that kind of thing?
I was born India but I never lived there. I grew up in Hong Kong and then mostly Bangkok, and when I graduated high school in Bangkok I went to Clark University, which is outside Boston. I didn’t know what I wanted to do so I just did the default, which was economics. It wasn’t really very good but, anyway, graduated, and then tried to be a stockbroker for a little bit in New York and hated that. The thing was I needed a work visa to stay in the states so I was pretty willing to do any job to stay there, so when that didn’t work out I jumped ship and became a purchasing agent for a wholesaler and that’s just a fancy way of saying that I was in a cubicle crunching numbers, inventory management, for three years.
That’s what made me wake up and think to myself, “This is a safe job I have a work visa I could just stay here and be fine, or I could leave now before I get too comfortable and do what I really want to do and that’s when my aunt got me into this internship at a gallery in DC because that’s where I was then. I loved it, they were the ones that told me I could take my business background and instead of just going for an art history masters, get a masters degree at Christie’s or Sotheby’s, the auction houses. It’s a very exclusive, small program. I looked at both, and I liked Christie’s. I applied there, got in, and got my masters in the art market with Christie’s. So after that, I was in New York, which was fantastic, I was in Manhattan and so much of the art world happens there. In a lot of the courses, we studied the things on the slides and in the textbooks and then you could actually walk across the street and go to the museum and actually see it in person, which is very special.
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