Valued Assets

Over The Past 18 Years, Leon Hulme Has Worked In Five Offices Around Asia And Significantly Expanded Crown Worldwide Group’s Global Footprint.

- Sam Shead

From humble beginnings in Birmingham in the UK, Leon Hulme is now a managing director at Crown Worldwide Group, a diverse company that manages the valuable assets of corporates. This includes managing corporate talent through the company’s world mobility business, their belongings with its relocations stream, information through records management, physical assets through workspace relocations, as well as wine storage, and corporate and private fine art. Leon has been working at Crown, which employs more than 5,000 people globally, for 18 years. In that time, he’s worked in five different countries – Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Thailand – and today he’s Managing Director of Crown’s Malaysia business, which is one of the largest country operations in the Group. “I left the UK for Malaysia back in 2000, not really knowing where I was going or what to expect, not to mention whether I could even do the job,” says Leon. “I think you’ve got to have confidence in yourself and go for it.”

Leon joined Crown as Corporate Services Manager in Kuala Lumpur. It didn’t take long for him to settle in when he arrived, thanks in part to a thriving expat community full of what Leon describes as