Dr Zhi-Xiong Cai is currently the Managing Director and Head of Risk Management in Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited. Before joining Huatai in 2018, Dr. Cai overseen China Merchants Securities International Limited Company's credit, market and operatonal risk management as the Chief Risk Officer.

Prior to joining China Merchants , Dr Cai worked at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank for over 15 years . There, he headed the Credit Portfolio Solutions Group for Asia-Pacific. The group provides analysis and advice on credit exposure, credit value assessment (CVA) and deal structuring for derivative products in the region, as part of the firm’s credit risk management. Before working in Asia, Dr Cai was part of the Credit Portfolio Solutions Group for the Americas, delivering advice on credit-related issues on derivatives for Latin American and commodities trading clients. Earlier, at Deutsche Bank in New York, Dr Cai joined the Credit Exposure Management Group, analyzing credit exposure for derivative products.

Dr Cai also spent 10 years as a research scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, exploring the structure of high-temperature superconducting ceramics. He has published 45 peer-reviewed papers in research journals and co-authored a book with Dr Yimei Zhu on high-temperature superconductors. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Michigan State University in the US and his Bachelor of Science degree from East China Normal University in Shanghai.

Nick Chan is a Council Member of HKUST and The Law Society of Hong Kong. Mr Chan is a lawyer with a computer science background. For over 17 years, he has worked at Squire Patton Boggs, a top 10 “Most Global” law firm with 1,600 lawyers in 46 offices. He leads a regional practice covering 22 countries and focused on serving governments, multinational corporations, private equity firms, venture capital firms, family offices, start-ups, incubation centers and think tanks involved in the technology, media and telecommunications sector and hi-tech industries. He had lead responsibility for North Asia for a global networking company, and served as regional counsel for a front-running telecommunications carrier.

Francis Kwok founded Radica in 2000. As CEO, Mr Kwok is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, business development and investor relations. Under his leadership, Radica has become a top email marketing and big data solution provider. It established sales operations in six markets across Asia within two years and in 2014 won the Gold Award (Direct Marketing Agency) in "Marketing" magazine's Agency of the Year awards. As an established industry figure, Mr Kwok also contributes regular articles and serves as a guest speaker on topics related to email marketing and big data in the commercial, governmental and academic sectors.

Stephen Langley is Deputy Chief Information Officer for the Securities and Futures Commission. He studied IT at City College of San Francisco when COBOL and assembly programming were on the syllabus and began his IT career in California, working for a startup long before the word startup existed. From that point on, he learnt that being open to new ideas and continuous learning are crucial to success in the IT industry.

Mr Langley arrived in Asia over 20 years ago and was the first IT Director for PwC (then Price Waterhouse) when it had just 75 PCs for 1,200 staff. He spent the next five years bringing the company into the modern age and connecting it to PwC globally. He then moved on to become Chief Information Officer, Asia-Pacific, for PwC Consulting, handling the challenge of aligning systems, technologies and processes with a global strategy prior to its spinoff.

Following IBM’s acquisition of PwC Consulting, he spent two years in Sydney managing the transition and overseeing IT for Consulting in Asia-Pacific. He went on to a similar role in Europe during a period of significant change.

For the past three years, Mr Langley has worked at Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, where he is responsible for the infrastructure and technical architecture teams and involved in all strategic IT projects, including collaboration, analytics, e-discovery and risk. He finds it a fascinating place to work as it is at the heart of the financial markets in Hong Kong, where the only constant is change.

Simon Leung is Chairman of i-Sprint Innovations, ranked No.40 globally in the 2017 Cybersecurity 500 list. He is a Director of Beijing Teamsun Technology Company Ltd, and an Independent Non-Executive Director at Anhui Conch Cement Company Ltd.

Mr Leung is a Co-Founder and Director of AsiaSoft Company Ltd and was previously the company’s CEO. He is also a former Executive Director and CEO of Automated Systems Holdings Limited.

Earlier, Mr Leung spent 17 years at Sun Microsystems Inc, where he served as Managing Director (Greater China) and Corporate Director. Before joining Sun Microsystems Inc, he held finance and sales positions in Wang Pacific Limited, Unisys China Limited, Philip Morris Asia Inc. and Exxon Chemical Asia Pacific Ltd, among others.

In July 2014, Mr Leung was appointed an Adjunct Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Computer Method and a Master of Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach, in the US.

Tim Li joined Bloomberg LP in 2008 and is currently managing the Earnings Estimates and Analyst Recommendations team in the Global Data Department. He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor degree in Actuarial Science and Statistics. Tim oversees the planning and implementation of process development for the department, where his goal is to optimize the efficiency and accuracy of Bloomberg's data management operations through applying process engineering and automation using various technological and statistical solutions.

Micky Lo joined The Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon as Chief Information Risk Officer Asia-Pacific in July 2013. At BNY Mellon, he leads the regional team in enabling business solutions and proactively protecting the company from information risks. In this role, he oversees and governs the implementation of the bank-wide information risk roadmap in the region, with a particular focus on IT regulatory compliance.

Mr Lo has over 30 years’ IT experience in the financial services industry, spanning a diverse range of IT management areas, including regional and location management, IT and security architecture, distributed computing engineering, technology infrastructure operation, outsourcing/in-sourcing management, IT risk management and technology audits.

Before joining BNY Mellon, Mr Lo was Head of IT Security Asia-Pacific and Head of Technology Greater China for Deutsche Bank. He has also held IT management, and IT security/risk management and audit roles with JP Morgan and Citibank.

Mr Lo earned a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

Francis Lo has 20 years’ experience in management consulting, technological innovation, and hands-on operational work. He is now an entrepreneur, working with start-ups based in Hong Kong and Singapore, and COO of the Global Institute of Service Leadership Education, initiated by Mr Po Chung (co-founder of DHL International and the Hong Kong Institute of Service Leadership & Management [hki-slam.org]).

From 2006-16, Mr Lo held multiple senior management positions at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA), encompassing planning, retail, innovation, airside operations, passenger handling and compliance. He transformed HKIA’s airside operations with new technologies, collaborating with over 100 diverse business partners. He also headed liaison with regulators to maintain the balance between business development and compliance. On the retail business front at HKIA, Mr Lo revamped shops and developed a data analytics model that helped double revenue. In addition, he served as General Manager of a joint venture between HKIA and the airline community related to passenger handling in Mainland China and Macau.

Before working at HKIA, Mr Lo was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He led transformation programs for Global 500 companies, sovereign funds, and local leaders across Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Greater China, Europe, and the US, covering strategy, mergers and acquisitions, innovation, and business building. He was a founding member of McKinsey Asia’s Business Technology Practice and an expert in Global Business Technology Practice. In the early stages of his career, Mr Lo worked as a consultant for Accenture, managing large-scale business process re-engineering and system integration projects.

Mr Lo is a HKUST alumnus, graduating with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering and serving as President of the University’s Students’ Union. He has received HKUST’s Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Leadership and Service, and has been named an Outstanding Tertiary Student of Hong Kong. From 2012-14, Mr Lo was President of St Louis Old Boys’ Association. Since 2016, he has been Director for Public Image of Rotary E-Club Lantau.

Rex Ma is Co-Founder of iGen6 (http://iGen6.com), an innovation management and digital marketing consultancy. iGen6, established in 2010, enables clients’ business growth and answers their promotional needs through its embrace of best practice, including online-to-offline (O2O) branding platform services and digital public relations and marketing. It also provides smart estate project development.

Prior to starting up iGen6, Rex was Principal Solution Consultant and Solution Architect for Oracle Corp, based in Hong Kong and covering the Greater China region . At Oracle, he provided enterprise solution consultancy (enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise asset management, human capital management) to conglomerates, government and state-owned enterprises for more than 10 years.

Mr Ma’s community service roles currently include Corporate Communications and PR Director for the Hong Kong Computer Society Foundation; Honorary Digital Advisor to the Hong Kong Public Relations Professionals’ Association; and Advisor to the SME Consultative Committee at CLP.

As Head of IT Infrastructure and Operation Services, Mr Raymond Ngai is responsible for managing and developing The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s IT infrastructure in the areas of hardware platforms, network, storage, web infrastructure, network security, systems software and desktop services. In this role, he seeks to support the Club's vision to be a world leader in providing horse racing, sporting and betting entertainment and a major charity and community benefactor in Hong Kong.

Mr Ngai has over 25 years’ experience in information technology, encompassing IT strategy and visioning, management, governance, formulating investment and business-enabling technology strategy, and implementing enterprise infrastructure and solutions to support business and corporate objectives.

He is also an angel investor, with experience of business modeling for start-ups and mentoring of high-potential employees, students and start-up founders.

Mr Ngai received his Bachelor of Science from Illinois Institute of Technology and his Master of Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, both in the US. He completed the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program in 2006.

Elizabeth Pennie is responsible for overseeing Investment Committee governance as part of the Business Development and Asset Management Office (BDAMO) at CLP Holdings. CLP’s “Focus, Delivery and Growth” strategy requires a disciplined allocation of capital, supported by a robust investment governance and analysis process. The BDAMO ensures CLP’s capital allocation process is conducted in an efficient, disciplined and seamless manner.

Before joining the BDAMO in March 2017, Ms Pennie was responsible for the Sustainability Reporting and Analytics team within CLP’s Sustainability Department. This team develops the Sustainability Report, coordinates non-financial data assurance by an external auditor, and responds to selected sustainability indices, such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. She took up her role with the Sustainability team in 2013.

Prior to this, Ms Pennie spent several years as part of CLP’s Corporate Finance and Development team, conducting due diligence and investment analysis of potential power generation construction and acquisition opportunities throughout Asia-Pacific.

She holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in Economics from Carleton College.

Marie Rosencrantz has 20 years’ experience in management consulting, development/sustainable finance, diplomacy and teaching/training. Through Rosencrantz & Co, the consulting firm that she founded in 2009, Marie manages consulting engagements for private investment firms, development finance organizations, and other corporate and public sector clients. At HKUST, Ms Rosencrantz teaches courses in Social Entrepreneurship & Venture Philanthropy and Managing Corporate Social Responsibility to MBAs, other postgraduate students and undergraduates.

Ms Rosencrantz has previously worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She was part of the start-up team that helped launch the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She also worked for the World Bank at its headquarters in Washington DC as well as in Morocco and Indonesia.

As a diplomat with the Swedish Foreign Service, she represented Sweden on the OECD's Development Assistance Committee and was responsible for the economic and commercial sections of the Swedish embassies in Colombia and Italy. She served as the Swedish Trade Commissioner to Italy, Malta, Albania and Libya and as head of the Italy office for the Swedish Trade Council (now Business Sweden).

Before starting her own consulting firm, Ms Rosencrantz worked as Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) Manager for British development finance institution CDC, which subsequently became the first development finance/impact investment client for Rosencrantz & Co. She currently serves as a Hong Kong board member of EMpower, an emerging markets foundation, as an advisory board member for TwoPresents, a social enterprise, and is a former board member of Charity Rating. Ms Rosencrantz is also a network partner of global consulting group Hystra.

Ms Rosencrantz has a BA in Economics from Stanford University, an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and an MBA degree from Insead. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and some German and Portuguese in addition to her native Swedish and English.

Dr Jimmy Tong is an Associate and East Asia Energy Skill Leader at major engineering consultancy Arup, focusing on building sustainability.

An industrial front-runner in the energy business, Dr Tong has applied his energy systems expertise to a variety of areas including wind, solar and other renewable energy, infrastructure and building services, and product and system development in the manufacturing of electronics, ventilation equipment, and filtration equipment. He has worked in the energy sector for more than 18 years and his current focus is creating and transforming buildings for a greener future.

Dr Tong received a PhD from the University of Minnesota, specializing in computational fluid flow and heat transfer and is a guest lecturer on energy and sustainability at several universities in Hong Kong. He has also co-authored books and refereed journal articles.

Ir Conrad Wong has over 25 years’ experience in construction project management, with areas of expertise including strategic planning, building construction, pre-cast construction technologies, safety and quality management, and green building technologies.

In addition to his role as Vice Chairman of construction company Yau Lee Holdings Ltd, Ir Wong is active in public and community service. He is the appointed Chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Council, Deputy Chairman of the Vocational Training Council, a member of the Advisory Council on the Environment and a member of the Panel on Promoting Testing and Certification Services in the Construction Materials Trade. Past roles include Chairman of the Hong Kong Green Building Council, President of the Hong Kong Construction Association, President of the International Federation of Asia and West Pacific Contractors’ Associations, Chairman of the Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board, Director of the World Green Building Council, and member of the Construction Industry Council.

Ir Wong was appointed a Justice of the Peace (JP) in 2008 and awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) by the Hong Kong government in 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the construction industry. He is also a member of Guizhou Province’s Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Konnie Yu has over 14 years’ experience in sustainable development, environmental management, benchmarking and reporting. She joined Hysan Development Co Ltd in 2013 as Environmental Affairs Manager and is now Corporate Sustainability Manager. In her current post, Ms Yu is the focal point for all sustainability (including environmental) issues within the company. This involves the promotion of sustainability and environmental awareness and the implementation of strategies to improve Hysan’s performance in such areas. Prior to joining Hysan, Konnie was Manager of the Environmental Management Team at the Business Environment Council (BEC), responsible for providing environmental consultancy and related services to the business community.