“We have been home in Asia for nearly 150 years. In the 1860s, three Swiss entrepreneurs sailed separately to Asia: Wilhelm Heinrich Diethelm set off for Singapore, Eduard Anton Keller for the Philippines, and Hermann Siber for Yokohoma, to establish trading houses. They didn’t know each other by then, but they had more in common than flourishing companies and entrepreneurial spirit. Their desire to build bridges of commerce between Asia and Europe laid the foundation stones for something much bigger in the future.”