Girl on the Go

CEO of two companies, medical school valedictorian, and future Ivy League MBA student… Natasha Cinta Vinski is chasing even bigger aspirations. Surely, she is the girl to watch, as Mariel Grazella finds out 111

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She is also the CEO to Aero Queen, a multimillion dollar, Singapore-based helicopter vendor that serves global clients. Her late father, Ivek Vinski, previously led this company.

Natasha is also a doctor, having graduated top of her class at a well-regarded Indonesian university and has been accepted in the MBA programme of an Ivy League university found in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And, oh, Natasha, who launched her first fashion business, Foxxy, when she was 17, is also the founder of Love Humanity NCV, a nongovernment organisation (NGO) that provides medical aid to the less privileged.

“My parents never taught me that I can not do something. I always believe I can,” she said about her drive to assume the various responsibilities she has her hands on. Speaking more on her upbringing, Natasha, who is an only child, pointed out that her parents raised her to be an independent woman who strives to make her mark in the world.

“My parents trusted me with the family businesses, but they also said that I must not only maintain them, but I have to also develop them,” she added.

At Vinski Tower, which she described as her father’s last gift to her mother and her, Natasha largely focuses on the management of the clinic, which provides a wide range of services from regenerative treatment to stem cell therapy. “I put my personal touches in not only the design of the clinic, but also the services we offer and even the way we do our marketing,” she said, adding that she favours using technology, like social media, to reach consumers.

Her choice to pursue medicine is deeply linked to her family history. Besides her mother, known as the queen of anti-ageing medical treatment, her grandfather and greatgrandfather from her father’s side practiced medicine as well. “When I was very young, I would play dress up in my mother’s closet. I would try on her stethoscope and doctor’s coat. I’ve never felt more comfortable in any other fabric as the coat,” said Natasha, who has a vast collection of coveted fashion pieces.

For her, the best rewards of being a doctor are seeing patients’ health improve. “I think it is very good when medicine gives hope because certain of medication are just dead ends,” she noted, referring to treatments that fail to touch the true source of illness.

Meanwhile, running her father’s business presents Natasha with a different set of challenges. In a field dominated by senior men, she has to put in extra effort to be heard. She does not deny that she has much to learn, but she remains confident that being young comes with advantage. “Being young, you move and think faster, which is something that they have come to appreciate. You have to prove to them that you can,” she remarked.

Like medicine, Natasha’s familiarity with her father’s business was built over the years. When she was in high school, her father would take her to business meetings in which she was tasked to type out the minutes of meetings. “From then on, my responsibility grew,” she said.

Her closeness with her parents has led her to call them as her source of inspiration. Yet, outside her parents, she names Richard Branson as a figure she aspires to be like, given his never-ending projects. After all, “One of my dreams is also to have my own airline,” she pointed out in closing.

At the age of 24, Natasha Cinta Vinski has the credentials of one who is decades older than her. She is the CEO of Vinski Tower, an anti-ageing and preventive medicine clinic founded by her mother, Dr Deby Vinski.