Honourable Keynote Speakers

Ir Dr Alan Lam is an adjunct professor at CUHK and CityU, supervising PhD research, and teaching AI and IoT technologies, and actively participated in various professional and public services in the innovation and technology industry.  In 2004, he founded Sengital Limited and he has led the company to win dozens of technology awards and related patents.  He is a member of Innovation and Technology Fund Vetting Committee, approving grants for more than 12 years.  Professor Lam is currently the Chairman of the Hong Kong Science Park Startup Alumni Association. He actively serves the industry as an executive member of  HKEIA, HKETA, and founding president of several innovation and technology associations.  Professor Lam has served on the Board of Directors of  ASTRI for six years. He is currently the Chairman of LSCM R&D Centre. He was selected as one of the ten outstanding young person in Hong Kong in 2015 and the Chief Executive’s Commendation for Community Service in 2019.  In addition, he started angel investment in 2014, and joined Gravity Capital Partners Co Ltd as a managing partner and CTO in 2021. He hopes to continuously serve innovation and technology industry in HK.

In the past 20+ years, she has led numerous start-up development, IPO, and mergers and acquisitions of listed companies in the TMET industry. It includes the merges of the two ASX-listed companies, REA Group (ASX: REA), a subsidiary of News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA), and iProperty Group (ASX: IPP), the largest online real estate group in Asia, at a value of US$534 million, the IPO of eCargo Group at (ASX: ECG) and TOM Group (HKSE: 2383) and the Greater China launch of Sina.com (NASDAQ: SINA) and assisted in investing and operations of NBA basketball tournaments, skype, eBay in Greater China, and more. Carrie has gained a solid foundation in investment, business innovation, transformation, and value creation. She has been working closely with equity investors and family offices in strategizing viable wealth management, creation, and succession solutions.
Ms. Carrie Law has served as a Board Director and CEO of Juwai.com, a leading overseas real estate portal in servicing Global Chinese. Before this, she has held senior positions in many multinational companies and start-ups. In recognition of her outstanding contributions to digital innovation in a wide range of industries, the Hong Kong Interactive Marketing Association has awarded her as the “Digital Marketer”. 

As the Founder of LBS, Joanne manages the overall business and IR services development for clients. With over 20 years of extensive experience in financial communications, branding and media industry, she has substantial experience in advising sizable enterprises on senior management training to develop their investors and media communications skills. She has led the IR work for over 100 listing and fundraising projects in HK and overseas which include over US 10 billion fundraising projects and the largest 500 enterprises worldwide.

As a practitioner with 18 years’ sound knowledge in Hong Kong’s financial industry which spans investment banking, asset management, regulator and market operator, Mr. Zhou is now dedicated to fight the battle of carbon reduction by combining traditional finance and blockchain technology in Carbon World Limited. Before Carbon World Limited, he worked for HKEx, as well as the latest SFC-approved Virtual Asset Service Provider OSL and HashKey group.

Josephine is an experienced Asian-based private equity practitioner with over 30 years’ emerging markets experience. She is currently co-founder and director of Anthem Asia an investment and advisory company focused on developing financially-and-socially-responsible opportunities in Myanmar. She also acts as an investment advisor to the Vietnam Investment Group. Josephine spent 13 years with CLSA Capital Partners where she co-founded CLSA’s pan-Asian private equity platform. From 1995 to 2008, she was managing director and deputy CEO of CLSA Capital Partners, and product head for the pan-Asian Growth and Expansion Capital team.

Josephine is also an independent non-executive director of Petra Foods Limited, a SE Asian consumer chocolate business listed in Singapore. In addition, she is a trustee and chair of the Investment Committee of the Croucher Foundation in Hong Kong, and a director and co-founder of the Village People Project, a Hong Kong-based NGO supporting projects which benefit women and children in rural China.

Josephine is a graduate of the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, a member of the Law Society of England & Wales, and Hong Kong, and a member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute.

Kevin is currently Head of Investment Insights, Managing Director of IDEG. IDEG is an asset management group company of one of Asia’s largest Digital Asset native conglomerates, CTH. Additionally, CTH has established verticals across Venture Capital and sizeable global Crypto Infrastructure.

Kevin is an early adopter and investor of Bitcoin since 2016 and is an active advocate for professional standards across the digital asset space. Leveraging his two decades of traditional finance experience, Kevin has served as both CIO and Head of Digital Asset Management of active and passive strategy digital asset focused hedge funds.

Previously, he has held investment professional positions with PIMCO, Fidelity International, BNP Paribas across both London and Hong Kong. He has an established institutional track record in multi-asset allocation including debt capital markets, including Global Bonds, EM Debt and Asia Credit, FX and Venture Capital.

Finally, he has been a mentor to the Cyberport Incubator Fund, a Hong Kong government investment agency, providing start-ups with strategic and technology advisory. He has various partnership investments across early-stage projects across blockchain, digital assets, e-Sports, FinTech, Fitness and Wellness and Technical Education.

Matthew Cheung has 7 years’ experience in blockchain & cryptocurrency. He previously worked at OK Group, handling business development. He later started his own advisory firm, specialising in crypto regulations and Security Tokens, advising licensed exchanges in Thailand,Cambodia and Philippines.

Matthew graduated from University of Toronto (St.George) with a bachelor's degree in Economics & Philosophy.

Michelle Leung leads the Asia ESG research Team at Bloomberg specializing in climate related ESG strategies, data solutions and analysis for clients worldwide. Before joining the ESG team, she had over 15 years equity, industry and IPO research experience with Bloomberg and few other international and Chinese investment banks, covering various sectors including coal, materials and utilities in Asia. She has been an active speaker at global-scale coal and energy conferences. She was also the ranked analyst for institutional investor and Asiamoney, as well as one of the top three earnings estimators for Starmine. She is also a WiFA ESG committee member. She graduated from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

With over 13 years’ experience in corporate publishing and multimedia production, financial printing, and information services, Patt plays an active role in promoting corporate sustainability with an imperturbable and ardent approach. She started her career in annual report design and production at The Design Associates, where she honed her business marketing skills, and subsequently steered towards the financial printing industry in 2012. Patt understands the financial communication and financial reporting needs of a wide range of clients, including Hong Kong listed companies, government departments and NGOs. She has an outstanding record of sales achievements in the industry, along with a robust and reputable commercial network, which has garnered trust and acclamations over the years from a wide range of clients.

Patt believes that Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) values are vital for acute corporate and represent new opportunities. She leads her teams of expertise with pioneering technology components and practices for waste reduction and paperless operation, with the determination to ensure clients experiencing new and sustainable ways of running their business and be a genuine eco-financial partner.

Ms. Zhan is the ESG specialist who has over 10 years’ experience on Asia Index product design and Index product positioning particularly in carbon efficiency products, 2 years of consulting service on delivery of ESG strategy for asset management industry.

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Prior to joining CSOP, Ms. Zhan worked at KPMG where she provided consulting services to asset management companies. She was involved in ESG and sustainability consulting projects, including framework building, benchmarking system development and provided ESG sustainability strategies and related tools to help clients achieve their ESG sustainability goals.

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With her career began in 2008, Ms. Zhan worked at S&P Dow Jones Index where she was responsible for Index product design, product positioning and driving the commercial success of S&P Asia cover indices. She joined on Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) index selection tender in 2018 and two S&P Global Environmental Stock indices were selected (invested) by GPIF with USD 10 billion.

Robert has 5 years+ project management experiences in the innovation and technology industry. He specializes in institutional technology solution development and crypto product development. Leveraging his expertise in gamification of traditional applications, Robert also builds a systematic method to assess the valuation and sustainability of gamified projects.

Steve Glickman is President of Aspiration Global, leading the international and governmental services arm of America’s top sustainability and financial services B-Corporation.  Aspiration provides bespoke, high-quality, nature-based solutions to corporations and governments around the world, tapping into our 400m+ tonnes portfolio of certified carbon credits.  Aspiration has been named one of the “World’s 50 Most innovative Companies” by Fast Company and “100 Most Brilliant Companies” by Entrepreneur magazine.

Steve is also an Advisor and Board Member to leading investment, professional services, and technology companies at the crossroads between community development, renewable energy, and public policy, including as the Co-Founder of Statt, a venture-backed, enterprise software company that automates public policy and regulatory data and intelligence, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at CohnReznick LLP, the global professional services company, and as a Member of the Board of Advisors to Arctaris Impact Investors, one of the country’s leading impact- and infrastructure-focused private equity funds.