Wong Tag

Even after completing Europe’s 383-mile Camino de Santiago stretch in 2019, JuE Wong is hesitant to call herself a hiker. “I’m more of an accidental walker that become a hiker,” said the Olaplex chief executive officer, who got here to the avocation(s) during her adolescence in Singapore. “As you possibly can imagine, Singapore is as flat as a pancake; it has hills, not mountains,” said Wong. Her mother and father — from whom she jokes she inherited her “workaholic” tendencies — made it a degree despite their busy schedules to take the family to Mount Faber nearly every Saturday. “We might drive to the highest of the hill, walk down, after which walk back as much as the automobile,...