Building a multi-million empire
Having been in the ornamental fish business at the tender age of 14, entrepreneurship was nothing new to Barnabas Huang, alumnus of NYP�s School of Business Management and now Managing Director of NutriFirst Pte Ltd, but after working in the industry for three years, he realised it wasn�t his true calling so he decided to change his career path. Back when he was a second year Business Management student in NYP, Barnabas met his gym trainer who was selling sports supplements. He seized the opportunity to buy over his sports nutrition business when his gym trainer decided to concentrate on his other business ventures. With $3,800 worth of stock that Barnabas acquired from his gym trainer, NutriFirst.net was born. While studying for his diploma in NYP, he took on many modules like Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Statistics and Finance which helped sharpen his vision and hone his analytical skills. Barnabas also underwent work attachments over a span of nine months, on-campus as well as with ...