Elaine Kim

Biography

Elaine Kim is a medical doctor, entrepreneur and travel journalist. She is a Partner of Trinity Bridal in Hong Kong and co-founded Trinity Gallery in Singapore, luxury retail boutiques that bring international designer bridal and evening gowns to Asia. The business carries exclusive distributorships of leading designers such as Oscar de la Renta, Monique Lhuillier, Carolina Herrera and Jenny Packham.  In addition, Elaine is one of the co-founders of CRIB, a Singapore-based social enterprise that empowers women to become entrepreneurs, through its CRIB Society community and network, CRIB Match programme which matches co-founders, and through the CRIB Business Incubator which provides chosen start-ups access to mentorship, resources and funding. As a pilot project for CRIB, she co-founded boutique event planning company Milk and Honey Event Design. Elaine co-founded Trehaus Co-work, Singapore's first co-working space which combines a vibrant, conducive co-working environment with adjacent child-minding and enrichment classes. Elaine also freelances as a travel journalist, regularly contributing stories on luxury travel to magazines including Tatler, Robb Report, Prestige and Billionaire. Actively involved in philanthrophic causes, she has led awareness-building and fund--raising initiatives for charities such as Bone Marrow Donor Programme, Dover Park Hospice, HCA Hospice Care and RiverKids, raising over a million dollars for causes that support patients with cancer, the terminally ill and protect at-risk children from trafficking and abuse. She is an ambassador for SNOW (Say "No" to the Oppression of Women"), a UN Women initiative that enables programmes which prevent violence against women.  

Research Interest

 Healthcare,Pellative Care,Leadership,etc