Fandi Ahmad is widely regarded as one of Southeast Asia’s greatest footballers and a respected leader in the global sports community. A national icon in Singapore, Fandi enjoyed an illustrious playing career spanning over two decades, earning more than 100 international caps and captaining the Singapore national team.
He made history as one of the first Southeast Asian players to compete professionally in Europe, playing for FC Groningen in the Dutch Eredivisie. His club career also included successful stints in Malaysia and Indonesia, where he became known for his technical excellence, vision, and goal-scoring ability.
Following his playing career, Fandi transitioned seamlessly into coaching and leadership roles. He has managed top clubs and the Singapore national team, as well as serving as head coach of the Singapore U-22 side. Throughout his coaching journey, he has been recognized for developing young talent, instilling discipline, and building high-performance team cultures.
Off the pitch, Fandi is admired for his humility, resilience, and strong values. His life story—rising from humble beginnings to international success—resonates with audiences far beyond sport.
Today, Fandi Ahmad is a sought-after speaker who shares powerful insights on leadership, teamwork, perseverance, and achieving excellence under pressure.
Chris has been a commercial diver and Supervisor for over 20 years, and currently specialises in deep sea saturation diving, operating almost exclusively in the oil and gas industry.
This highly specialised form of diving involves living in the claustrophobic confines of a decompression chamber for up to 28 days at a time, commuting daily to the sea-bed in a diving bell, and working at depths of up to 900 feet for 6 hours at a time.
In September of 2012, a freak failure of the dynamic positioning system of the vessel he was working under, resulted in the umbilical which provides him with breathing gas, light and heat being severed completely. He was left on the seabed, in complete darkness 300 feet below the surface, with only the 5 minutes of breathing gas he carried in the emergency tanks on his back, and no way to protect himself from the freezing temperatures.
It took his heroic rescuers over 40 minutes to come back and fetch him, and his miraculous survival story has baffled experts ever since.
His extraordinary story was subsequently immortalised in the hit Netflix/BBC documentary 'Last Breath,' a version of which was developed into a Hollywood movie starring Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu and Finn Cole and released in 2025.
Chris was born in Edinburgh, raised in Cambridge, and now lives in the South of France with his partner and two daughters.
