Dreams, Passion & Your Hong Kong Story

• 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆:  https://youtu.be/vSCyz41YQ30

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Londiwe Ngubeni, more popularly known as Ms LoLo in HK, is a South African singer, entertainer and music producer in HK. She came to HK as lead singer for Disney’s Lion King. After working with Disney, Ms Lolo made her entrepreneurial debut in music industry leading many musical productions and solo performances. She recently released her own album “A different Breed”, so named as it has combination of Afro Beats with Asian influences.

Ms Lolo believes that a place like HK gives her a wide opportunity in a market like China and South East Asia. It helps her make Afro beats popular in this part of the world and shape perspective of Asians about Africans. She also believes that her success in HK is a confidence booster for other Africans in Asia. Ms Lolo loves HK for its safety and hardworking culture. She admires HK people for their law-abiding nature. She credits HK for being a great business center and launch pad to test out new products and ideas which can then find global recognition.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► 𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝐼 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾.
► 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑠𝑠.
► 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑘𝑖𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒, 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑, 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝐴𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡.
► 𝑀𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚’𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 “𝐴 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑”… 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑥 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑏. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.
► 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑.
► 𝑌𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛, 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑛, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑔𝑖𝑔 𝑎𝑡 2 𝑎.𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑏𝑒𝑟, 𝑛𝑜𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢.

• 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆:    https://youtu.be/eNBzp0ck74A

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► 𝑆𝑜 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢.
► 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙. 𝐻𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑖𝑠, 𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑. 𝑇𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠.
► 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑚.
► 𝑀𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠… 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦.
► 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘. 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤-𝑢𝑝 𝑡𝑜 “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦”.
► 𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑝 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘. 𝐷𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦. 𝑆𝑒𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑. 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑. 𝐺𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑔. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.
► 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦. 𝐸𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑, 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙.
► 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠.
► 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤’𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑛, 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝐹𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Nury Vittachi was born in Sri Lanka and raised in UK. He was inspired in his early childhood by his father whose daring writings led his family to leave Sri Lanka in times of an armed rebellion.

Growing up, Nuri had a special talent for digging underneath any story which helped him become very successful with tabloids on Fleet Street of London from where Nury learned many tricks of trade for investigative journalism.

After moving to HK, Nury wrote for gossip corner Lai See and Spice Trader for SCMP where he received lot of applaud for his informative, variegated and creative journalism. Nury also wrote a number of children fiction and non-fiction books. One of his book “The Feng Shui Detective” won many praises for using Eastern culture in explaining a western story. In 2020, Nury wrote a book on HK protests titled “the Other Side of Story” which received several praises and critique. Nury is currently on his way to producing a sequel of this book.

Nury lives in Hong Kong with his English wife and three adopted Chinese children.

• 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆:  https://youtu.be/YNVWpDCwVyI

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑝 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 [𝑁𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑒] 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠𝑒𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑗𝑜𝑏𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠.
► 𝑁𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.
► 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡.
► 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚. 𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦. 𝑊𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑡.
► 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠, 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠, 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑦. 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝐼𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑠.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑢𝑏. 𝐻𝐾 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.
► 𝐻𝐾’𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑦𝑙𝑒. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Trilok Gurung is Founder & Owner of Gurkhas Ekta International, a human resources services provider founded in 2003. Trilok started his career working in the British army in HK. He then had some small entrepreneurial stints in Nepal before joining the army of Sultanate of Oman. After working there for a few years, Trilok moved back to HK where took up a job in construction and grew through the ranks in different construction companies.

Until one day, the company he worked for stopped their work in HK. This forced Trilok to start his own construction business, supported by his previous employers, friends and family. He grew this business manifold and diversified over time in other areas like security and renewable energy. Trilok has employed many Gurkhas and people of ethnic minority communities, helping them to thrive in an expensive place like HK. His Gurkha security guards are at work in many casinos of Macau, many five-star hotels in HK and Macau, hospitals, hotels, schools and buildings.

Recently, Trilok started a Compressed Natural Gas company in Nepal based on the concept of waste to energy. Trilok’s company also helped the Government and people of Nepal in the difficult Covid times by transporting many oxygen cylinders and medical supply.

• 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆:  https://youtu.be/UDEBslYM-fc

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► [𝐼𝑟𝑎𝑞 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐾𝑢𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡] 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐵𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑑𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑖𝑡. 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑, 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝑊𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑔𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑓𝑓 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙.
► 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎. 𝑊𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒.
► 𝑊𝑒 [𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑜𝑛] 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒. 𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎.
► 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝐼 𝑠𝑎𝑤 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐵𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑑𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑙. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛, 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑀𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑏𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟. 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦.
► 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 [𝐻𝐾] 𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒.
► 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 [𝐻𝐾] 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Gaurav Grover is Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Trikon Asset Management, an Asian equity hedge fund. Gaurav began his career in 1997 in Investment Banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Subsequently, he worked with Silver Lake, Goldman Sachs Principal Strategies Group, TPG-Axon Capital and Moore Capital in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong. He has been working Hong Kong since 2004.

Gaurav is an Indian citizen and spent his formative years in Kuwait. He lived through Iraq’s invasion as well as part of the occupation of Kuwait. He attended University of Pennsylvania and completed two Bachelor’s Degrees in three years and was awarded Summa Cum Laude. He was a Joseph Wharton Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He also has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝐿𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡… 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛.”
► “𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤.”
► “𝑅𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠. 𝐼𝑓 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑤𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙.”
► “𝑅𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑦𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝐾 ℎ𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
► “𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾. 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Ariane Zagury is the founder of Rue Madame Fashion Group.

An investment banker by training, Ariane Zagury was raised in a family of textile retailers in France, developing a taste for fabrics and fashion during her formative years. Graduating from the Universite Paris Dauphine in 2003, Ariane started her career in some of the most prestigious financial advisory groups, namely Rothschild & Cie, Paris and Credit Suisse. Rising swiftly through the ranks, she was named Director of the Foreign Exchange Desk at Goldman Sachs in London.

August 2008 brought a major shift in her life when she relocated to Hong Kong. Ariane was immediately struck by the women’s fashion sense and style, yet she was disappointed by the lack of fashionable, feminine and wearable designer brands on offer locally. To fill this void, in 2010, she opened her first concept store named “Rue Madame.” She collaborated with Patricia and Nathalie Samson who have had distinguished careers in the international fashion world, owning well-established concept stores in Paris.

Over the past few years, Ariane has become a trusted fashion adviser, bent on finding the perfect look. She creates personalized wardrobes that are compatible with the lifestyle of each of her customers. Furthermore, Ariane insists upon providing the best products and services at a reasonable price. This combination has made Rue Madame one of hottest fashion concept store in Hong Kong, securing the fidelity of a steady clientele.

Her enthusiasm for fashion and her unrelenting attention to detail have drawn the attention of renowned international brands. The management of American Vintage and Phase Eight have recently appointed Ariane as partner and entrusted her with the development of stand-alone shops. She has officially set up the “Rue Madame Fashion Group” and was named as one of the “2013 Local Heroes” by Hong Kong premier magazine, Ming Pao Weekly.

• 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆:  https://youtu.be/UfWWKuIB8hQ

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝑊𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐻𝐾’𝑠 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒.”
► “𝑊𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟.”
► “𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦.”
► “𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐻𝐾.”
► “𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑟. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑚𝑦 1-𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 [𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠] 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝐾.”
► “𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡, 𝑛𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢.”
► “𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝐻𝐾 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Virginia Chan is a CBC (Canadian born Chinese), born and raised in Vancouver, or as she likes to say “parts from Hong Kong, assembled in Canada”. She moved to Hong Kong in 2012 to discover and learn more about her Chinese heritage and for more corporate opportunities.

Virginia started her career as an HR professional in banking. She soon switched tracks and became an entrepreneur starting her food tour company “Humid With a Chance of Fish Balls”. Her company introduces people to different HK cuisines and alongside narrating interesting stories on HK communities, culture and traditions.

Her food tour company has been consistently rated one of the best food tour companies of HK by Trip Advisor for many years. More recently, due to Covid, her company has started mahjong classes and online shows with common theme of promoting positivity for HK.

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𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦-𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦-𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑. 𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦, 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠.”
► “𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛”.
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎. 𝑊𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤, 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎.”
► “𝐻𝐾 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎. 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
► “𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙, 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑀+ 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒. 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑀+ 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑀+ 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝐾.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Benjamin Cha is Chief Executive of Grosvenor Asia Pacific.  Previously, he has Managing Director & Head of Global Real Estate - Greater China for UBS, Co-CEO of UBS/Gemdale, and Executive Director & Head of Asia-Pacific for HKR International, his family company.

Ben Cha is a longstanding supporter of the contemporary art ecosystem in Hong Kong.  He is Co-Chair of the Board of the Asia Art Archive and serves on the Advisory Committee and Art Working Group of the Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Arts.  He also serves on the Asia Council for the Serpentine Galleries and previously served on the Tate Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee.

Born in Hong Kong, Ben studied at Middlebury College and Stanford Business School.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (13:18):  https://youtu.be/dTVyblVx280 **

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Master Ricky Cheung is a Mahjong craftsman with over 40 years of experience.  Ricky learnt the craft from his father while in secondary school.  Ricky’s father opened his first factory named ‘Fuk Hing Lung Mahjong Factory’ in Kowloon city.  Ricky expanded the factory multi-fold.  At one point, his factory was one of the largest in HK.  Ricky is also an innovator and developed machinery for the factory.

Although the business was unable to survive in 2009 due to severe competition with factory-produced tiles from mainland China, the spirit of Mahjong craftsmanship stays alive in HK.  Master Cheung retired in 2018 and is now fully engaged with artistic and creative mahjong craftmanship development inspired by her daughter - Karen - with a strong commitment to preserve such skills and culture.

Karen is an award-winning, self-taught illustrator based in Hong Kong specializing in sketching related to travel and cultural theme.  With a passion for art, she derives inspiration from everything she comes across by incorporating themes of energy, peace and happiness.  Her brand 𝓚𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓷 𝓐𝓻𝓾𝓫𝓪 𝓐𝓻𝓽 is inspired by the year she spent as a child in Aruba with her mother’s family. Aruba is a tiny Dutch Caribbean island known as ‘One Happy Island’, a cheerful island full of happiness and energy.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠.”
► “𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝐻𝐾 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑝𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑎ℎ𝑗𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛. 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛.”
► “𝐼𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 [𝑀𝑎ℎ𝑗𝑜𝑛𝑔] 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑀𝑎ℎ𝑗𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑑, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑, 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑖𝑥 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔.”

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (23:48): https://youtu.be/VBRsS8zQe8o **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝑀𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ‘𝐴𝑛𝑑’ 𝑣𝑠 ‘𝑂𝑟’. 𝐺𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑝, 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ‘𝐴𝑛𝑑’ 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑢𝑚𝑝ℎ 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ‘𝑂𝑟’. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑜 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒.”
► “𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒.”
► “𝑀𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.”
► “𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 [𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾].”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Alison Friedman is Artistic Director – Performing Arts at the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA), one of the largest arts and cultural developments in the world, since October 2017. She leads the dance, theatre, xiqu, music and outdoor teams of the Performing Arts Division to ensure WKCDA’s performing arts programs are conceptualized, curated and implemented in a forward-looking manner that realizes the Authority’s vision to be a regional and global leader in the performing arts.

Originally from U.S.A., Ms. Friedman has spent nearly two decades in Greater China. She has worked closely with Chinese and international governments, non-profit and private organizations, as well as established and emerging independent performing artists across genres.  She was board member (2013-2018) of the International Society for the Performing Arts, one of the largest international alliances of leaders in the performing arts. Fluent in Mandarin, she founded the successful cultural exchange organization Ping Pong Productions (PPP) in 2010 after studying as a Fulbright scholar at the Department of History in Peking University and the Beijing Dance Academy in Mainland China from 2002 to 2003. Prior to PPP, Alison held producer and general manager roles at dance and music institutions including the Beijing Modern Dance Company as well as famed composer / conductor Tan Dun’s production and management company.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (19:44): https://youtu.be/5-6eyWcnphk **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑡.”
► “𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐹𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.”
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒.”
► “𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒.”
► “𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
► “𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒.”
► “𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑛.”
► “𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 300 𝑜𝑓 𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.”
► “𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
A Hong Kong resident for nearly 30 years, Master of Wine Debra Meiburg is an award-winning author, TV personality and international speaker, and is widely considered the global authority on the Asian wine market. She is founding director of Meiburg Wine Media, Asia’s leading wine marketing agency, as well as wine consultant for Cathay Pacific Airways and Cathay Dragon, and holds the position of Chair of the Education Committee for the Institute of Masters of Wine.

Debra is producer and host of several documentaries and TV shows, including ‘Taste the Wine’ which is broadcast in 26 countries, Grape Moments, a video series broadcast via taxis to 70 million monthly viewers in China, and the online video series Meet the Winemaker. She has a monthly column in the South China Morning Post, among other publications, judges several wine competitions annually and is founding director of the world’s first truly pan-Asian wine competition, the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine and Spirit Competition.

A former wine professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and an always passionate educator, Debra’s suite of award-winning wine educational books and tools are currently distributed on four continents, and her five-volume book series, Debra Meiburg’s Guide to the Asian Wine Trade, and conferences series Wine in China and Wine SPIT have firmly established her as champion of the Asian wine trade.

Debra’s string of accolades includes: Entrepreneur of the Year (Women of Influence) by the South China Morning Post & the American Chamber of Commerce; 7th Most Powerful Woman in Wine by The Drinks Business magazine; the China Power List Award by WINE Magazine (China); and the Il Premio Internazionale (Vinitaly International Award).

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (16:09): https://youtu.be/gn8d4Im6rbg **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬
► “𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑏𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑏𝑜𝑥𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑. 𝐼𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ.”
► “𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑜. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠.”
► “𝐼 [𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑦] ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑏𝑖𝑔. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑖𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠.”
► “𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝐾 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 ‘𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜’ 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾.”
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐻𝐾. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.”
► “𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠.”
► “𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 [𝐻𝐾] 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Glenda Allen began her dance training in Perth, Western Australia at the age of 10, learning Jazz Ballet, Tapping, Musical Theatre, Acrobatics, Singing and Highland dancing.  At the age of fifteen she was successful in being chosen to attend both the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne and the Royal Ballet School in London.

A serious knee injury, sustained whilst on tour with the Company, forced Glenda into an early retirement from the stage and was, as one critic wrote, “one of the greatest tragedies to befall the Australian ballet world”.  But the accident did not daunt Glenda’s spirits and she decide to pursue her dance passion by starting a Dance Academy.  The Glenda Allen Dance Academy was founded in April 1995 with the aim of encouraging young dancers to reach their full potential, whilst nurturing their love of music and dance.  Strong emphasis is placed on performing, and all students take part in an annual performance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA).  The Academy has been holding classes at multiple locations and some schools in Hong Kong since 1995.

In 2004, Glenda was nominated for the “Australian of the Year” award.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (22:03): https://youtu.be/aG_oU-4K7iM **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛… 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑦 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑡… 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠.  𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
► “𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒.”
► “𝐵𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑙𝑢𝑥𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒… 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑦. 𝐵𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑚.”
► “𝐴𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑏𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠.”
► “𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 (22 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑠) 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜. 𝑇𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑦𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑦, 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑦.”
► “𝑀𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑜𝑓. 𝐼 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒. 𝐼𝑓 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Francis Belin is President of Christie’s, a highly-reputed elite global auction house selling art, luxury goods, furniture and real estate. Before joining Christie’s, Francis held leading positions with several finest brands in luxury goods industry like Swarovski and Richemont in France, Japan and Hong Kong.  Francis started his career with McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant. 

Francis is active in a variety of organizations, serving in advising and leadership positions at Enzo Jewelry, Kinds Earth Fund and House of AnLi.  Francis speaks French, English, Japanese, German and Bahasa Indonesia.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (12:37): https://youtu.be/HnOnwYWDRzc **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 [𝑘𝑖𝑘𝑘𝑖.𝐾] 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑎, 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑖𝑡… 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑. 𝐼𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒.”
► “𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒.”
► “𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾, 𝑝𝑜𝑝-𝑢𝑝𝑠 [𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑠] 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑝 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡.”
► “𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾. 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑢𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟, 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠.”
► “𝐻𝐾 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Jacqueline Sun is the founder of Bella Design Gallery and the director of Swedish lifestyle brand Kikki.K in Hong Kong. Jacqueline is a former lawyer, qualified to work in UK and HK. She practiced law for several years before taking the leap of entrepreneurship. Jacqueline has always had an astute eye for fashion, design and detail, and that influences her choice of business.

A firm believer in giving back, Jacqueline is involved in many charities and foundations. She was previously on the board of “Bring me a Book”. She is current active in “Community Chest” serving many charities in HK, and is also involved with several charities helping children. She is a great singer, skier, wake-surfer and fitness enthusiast.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (16:51): https://youtu.be/r1EurR2-V-8 **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑. 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑦.”
► “𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝐴𝑥𝑖𝑠 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑏 𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.”
► “𝐼𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒, 𝐼 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑡-𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡.  𝐼𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Sachil Dagur is a career banker with over 27 years experience; 18 years in leadership roles across different businesses, geographies and regulatory environments.  While primarily a corporate banker, Sachil has led businesses ranging from Retail Branch Banking, SME, Mid-Corporate to International banking.

Sachil started his career in India and grew through the ranks to become a senior banker with Axis Bank, one of the fastest growing banks in India.  With Axis, he moved first to Singapore - where he handled international affairs of the bank - and then to HK.  Few years ago, Sachil joined Habib Bank Zurich Hong Kong as CEO.  HBZ does primarily trade finance and is known for its strong people orientation.

Sachil loves living in HK with his wife and his two kids.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (22:57): https://youtu.be/2RDLqAxDvOo **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝐼 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑟.”
► “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘… 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.”
► “𝑇𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘."
► “𝐼𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔-𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙.”
► “𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 12 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠, 𝐹𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡.”
► “𝑊𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠, 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠, 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒’𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.”
► “𝐵𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝑇𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠. 𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡. 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Frank Tang is Founder, Chairman & CEO of FountainVest Partners, one of the largest China-focused private equity firms based in HK, with close to USD 5 Billion under management.

Founded in 2007, FountainVest has raised 3 USD funds and 1 RMB fund, with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.  FountainVest is especially interesting to any media, sports and fitness company.  It owns Pure Fitness and Pure Yoga; and is a major investor in Amer Sports, owner of premier outdoor sports brands such as Arc’teryx, Salomon, Atomic, and Wilson.  It was a key investor in IMAX China (including Hong Kong) and Focus Media (the largest outdoor media company in China).

Previously, Frank worked with Temasek Holdings and Goldman Sachs, where he started his career in New York before moving to Hong Kong.  Frank earned his MBA from Columbia Business School - where he is a member of its board of overseers - and his bachelor’s degree from Donghua University.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (15:25): https://youtu.be/CWjDJPLY_cM **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝑊𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 / 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦, 𝑜𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦, 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦 𝑒𝑡𝑐.”
► “𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑’𝑠 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑟.  𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑙, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ.”
► “𝐴𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒.”
► “𝐴𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛. 𝐵𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐. 𝐵𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑥𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎. 𝐷𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑒.”
► “𝑊𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐵𝑎𝑦 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠, 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐻𝐾 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐵𝑎𝑦 𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Dr Minna Chau is a Macau-born, US-trained clinical child specialist. She runs ‘Sprout in Motion’, a Hong Kong based clinic that provides various therapies to address learning disabilities of children with special needs.

Dr Chau has over 20 years of clinical experience in assessment and treatment of ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia in US, Hong Kong and China.  She is particularly interested in cross-cultural aspects of children with special needs.  Fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, she works with children and their families in collaboration with schools and special-needs teachers and specialists in the field.

She founded ‘Sprout in Motion’, a multidisciplinary team of trilingual specialists including clinical psychologists, educational psychologists and counseling psychologists, bilingual speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, behavior therapists, dyslexia teachers, and counselors to provide the best care in Greater China.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (27:31): https://youtu.be/8Htm5qx7iMU **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
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𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Bryant is Vice Chairman of Ronald Lu & Partners, an architectural practice housing over 600 staff across 5 offices in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Bryant joined RLP in 2000 after graduating from Cornell and led firm’s expansion in HK & Mainland China.  Under his leadership, RLP has helped shape HK skyline through participation in several landmark projects.  Bryant and RLP have won many awards over the years for their distinguished work.

Bryant is a triathlete, an avid skier, a wakesurfer and a big promoter of Hong Kong art and culture scene.  One can see Bryant’s humane side in his support for many charities and NGOs.

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► 𝐼 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑑𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒.
► 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛.
► 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑝.
► 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠… 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑔. 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑓𝑦 𝑚𝑦𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠.  𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠… 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑦 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.
► 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒. 𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑁𝑄 𝐴𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑦. 𝑀𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛. 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ $1, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.
► 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑖𝑥 𝑢𝑝. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝐾.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Nigar Qureshi is an award-winning aesthetician, skin-care specialist, cosmetologist and make-up artist sought after by celebrities and international beauty pageants.  She is owner of ‘Spa Beaute Par Zai’, one of the best spas in Hong Kong, established in 1975 by French founder Zai. Spa BPZ is known for excellent personalized service and uses the most high-tech equipment and latest beauty products.  Qureshi trains all her beauticians in what she calls “The French-to-the-English-American-Way”. 

Nigar was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1982, she moved to HK with her family. Shortly thereafter, she got into skincare business and started working with Zai at Salon BPZ. In 1993, when Zai moved to France, Nigar bought the business and has been growing it since.  Nigar and Spa BPZ have received several awards for their pioneering work in the beauty industry.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (25:40): https://youtu.be/dkbQyg_AN0E **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► [𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠] 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝐵𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠. 𝐼𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑏𝑦, 𝑤𝑒 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 8 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 32 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑖𝑡𝑠. 𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦.
► 𝐼𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑛𝑜 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑢𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒.
► 𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑦 [of HK] 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠-𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑒-𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒. 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤. 𝑀𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑. 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒.
► 𝐼𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑑, 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡.  𝑀𝑦 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦… 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠… 𝑑𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑧𝑒.  𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑒𝑡 90% 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑦 1, 92% 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑦 2, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑣𝑒 2 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 98% 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑦 7.
► 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑟-𝑡𝑜-𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡. 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛. 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑟𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟…  𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠… 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡.
► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Alan Lim was born in Singapore. In 2002, at the age of 22, he founded his first company whilst still studying at the University of London. Alan grew his online retail group to achieve annual turnover exceeding $50 million and employing over 80 staff in just 5 years without any external financing.

In 2009, Alan moved back to Asia, founding E-Services Group (ESG) in Hong Kong. ESG quickly established close partnerships with e-commerce big-hitters such as Google, eBay, and Amazon. Under Alan's direction, ESG has grown into a leading provider of E-commerce solutions to a variety of household brands ranging from Mattel to Skype, helping them to grow their online sales, logistics and expanding their global footprint.

Today, ESG is considered global leader in cross border ecommerce and is enabling China based ecommerce companies to expand their sales to over 6 continents globally. There are currently over 20,000 companies working with ESG, which ESG had helped generated hundreds of millions revenue for its clients every year.

Alan is widely acknowledged as an e-commerce expert and a successful entrepreneur, most recently being recognized with the Young Entrepreneur of the year award at the inaugural SCMP Enterprising Hong Kong Awards.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (12:56): https://youtu.be/6n--i9eZPso **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► ‘𝑀𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼, 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝑆𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 22 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘.’
► ‘𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 12.’
► ‘𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝑁𝑜 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑟 [𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑] 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡.’
► ‘𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝐹𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠. 𝐿𝑜𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒. 𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠. 𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠.’

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Jim is a watersports coach, born and raised in HK. He grew up as a farmer and fisherman in Tai Tam area and loved watersports as a child. He started his career as a construction supervisor participating mega construction projects like Tsing Yi Bridge, Airport Express and Kowloon Station. After HK’s handover to China in 1997, construction slowed down. During that time, Jim did short stint as a taxi driver. Soon he got bored of doing odd jobs.

In 1999, he along with his childhood friend took an entrepreneurial leap by buying a boat and starting as a watersports coach. Jim had researched the HK market well and observed a gap in demand and supply of watersports and coaches. With this arbitrage opportunity, Jim started his watersports business. The business started flourishing within 3 months. It’s been 22 years and he has never looked back.

𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (18:39): https://youtu.be/IG8_Wl1DlCc

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► 𝑊𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝.  𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑤𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦.
► 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐷𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑤. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑓𝑢𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ-𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠. 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑡𝑒𝑑𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ𝑦. 𝑆𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 [𝑎𝑡 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒21] 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 + 𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
► 𝐼𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦, 𝑤𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐷𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑆𝑦𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒.
► 𝑆𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾. 𝑊𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑦𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑛, 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠.
► 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒.
► 𝐴𝑠 𝑎 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Jeff Rotmeyer is originally from Canada and came to Hong Kong ~15 years ago as a public school teacher.

Jeff’s routine acts of kindness towards homeless in HK in form of ‘kindness walks’ led him to found ImpactHK, a charity supporting the homeless in Hong Kong.  Today ImpactHK leads over 60 walks a month across HK. Volunteers in the walk handout food, water and clothing to homeless individuals in the area, servicing around 400 people each week. In 2020, ImpactHK would house 100 people off the streets of HK.

Jeff is also the founder of Love21 Foundation, a charity supporting the Down syndrome and autistic community with health and nutritional programs.

Jeff is dedicated to living a meaningful life through social work and has dedicated his life to making positive impact for those in need. In recognition of his efforts, Jeff was awarded The Humanitarian award, The One by the Rotary.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (25:08): https://youtu.be/Zyc1-5skw5I **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► “𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑢𝑠. 𝑊𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑠.”
► “𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑂𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑔 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔… 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢… 𝑊𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒… 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟-𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒… ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡. 𝑀𝑖𝑛𝑖 𝑏𝑎𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒… 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑… 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 2 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑑.”
► “𝑊𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑑𝑛’𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑒𝑡… 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑂𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒.”
► “𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎, 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡. 𝐼 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 3𝑃𝑠: 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒… 𝑂𝑣𝑒𝑟-𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦.”
► “𝐻𝐾 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡. 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠.”
► “𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑. 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛’𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑, 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡.”
► “𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑏𝑒. 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝑆𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖-𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Girish is the Founder & CEO of Ovolo Hotels, an independent hotel operator providing effortless living through award-winning interior designs, all-inclusive comforts, focused personal services and cutting-edge in-suite technology. Ovolo currently owns and operates four hotels in Hong Kong, one in Melbourne, two in Brisbane, one in Canberra and two in Sydney. With more opportunities on the horizon, Ovolo is taking its brand to a larger, international audience, continuing its impressive journey as an innovative provider of cool living spaces and bright ideas.

Born in Hong Kong, Girish graduated from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.  He began his career managing his family's OEM watch business under the Hind Group of companies in Hong Kong. He set up watch factories across the Chinese border until 1998. In 2002, he sold the business and ventured into property development.

𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (19:48): https://youtu.be/ZwfclUQayGM

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.
► 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑞𝑢𝑒, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐻𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑏 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒, 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑢𝑠.
► 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟... 𝐺𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒.
► 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐻𝐾 𝑒𝑥ℎ𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦.
► 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐻𝐾. 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝑆𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞: Aradhna is a 25-year veteran of Asian financial markets. She runs her family office out of Hong Kong and recently started Access Alts Asia, an Asia-dedicated investment club to allocate to high-alpha, unique Asian alternatives.

Aradhna’s career has seen several firsts. She ran one of the earliest family offices investing in Asian Alternative funds and helped build the first platform that brought together the then nascent Asian Alternative funds industry two decades back and tracked over 700 funds. Aradhna also conceptualized the first international-style “Sunshine Funds” database for China, as well as pioneered the first China-Global hedge fund Summit at the invitation of the Shanghai Mayor in 2013, facilitating the China government’s landmark QDLP Investments Program for global alternative funds.

Apart from her contribution to the world of Asian alternatives, Aradhna is passionate about women empowerment and education for all, having served on the committees of Teach for China, Sohn Conference, Move4Migrants and Youth Diabetes Action.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (15:15): https://youtu.be/lJfUY0e4FWM **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎, 𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠, 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.
► 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝐻𝐾 𝑠𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙, 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡-𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒.
► 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝐻𝐾 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑.
► 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ.
► 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐻𝐾’𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦.
► 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐻𝐾.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:

Jim is presently CEO of Citadel Pacific Ltd, a diversified private holding company. He leads company’s Pacific islands businesses.  He was on the board of Citadel for nearly nine years before joining as CEO in 2019.

Prior to Citadel, Jim worked at DFS group, a luxury travel retailer, as EVP Strategy & Business Development.  He worked at DFS for 21 years in many different roles. Previously, Jim worked as President of Bluebells, a HK based distribution company for nearly 5 years.

Originally from USA, Jim studied at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan and graduated from the University of California in Santa Barbara with a bachelor’s degree in economics and Chinese.

𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (30:51): https://youtu.be/oebAfHs1dwc

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬: 

► 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑡𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒. 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠.

► 𝑊𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑑𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 … 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 

► 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦… 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ.

► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡.

► 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒. 𝐼𝑛 𝐻𝐾, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒”.

► 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝐾 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐, 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑦. 𝐼𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:

Yat is an entrepreneur and angel investor focused on internet and technology companies in Hong Kong.  He is Co-founder of Animoca Brands and Outblaze.  Animoca aims to be a world-leader by delivering true digital ownership to gamers by use of blockchain technology.  Outblaze focuses primarily on digital consumer entertainment.

Born and raised in Austria, and having studied Music and Arts, Yat started his tech career with Atari in Germany.  He moved to HK in 1995 to establish HK's first internet service provider company.

Yat has won several prestigious awards over the years, including, Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.  He is also Director of Asian Youth Orchestra and a member of British Academy of Film & Television Arts.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (18:07): https://youtu.be/nuskIBC7-7c **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
► "𝐶𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑.”
► “𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒.  𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠.”
► “[𝐻𝐾 𝑖𝑠] 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒. 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 ‘𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑡’, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑀𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝐸𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎.”
► “𝐵𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒… ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑢𝑝𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑢𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠.”
► “𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛.”

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Norma Chu is the founder of DayDayCook, the largest bilingual cooking show in Hong Kong and largest cooking media brand in China.  Widely popular among the newly-weds, young working professionals, moms and dads, DayDayCook has over 60 million social followers and over 9 billion views.

Norma was born and raised in HK, and grew up in Seattle.  Prior to DayDayCook, Norma was Head of Equities Research at HSBC Private Bank in Hong Kong.

Norma started DayDayCook in 2012 to pursue her passion for cooking; that turned into a thriving business. In 2015, Norma brought DayDayCook to Shanghai and entered China Market.

Norma has raised over 65 million USD in venture funding for DayDayCook from investors. She was named China New Media Top 100 people in 2016 and CY Zone’s most notable female entrepreneurs and was featured in the Apple Cover Story in 2018.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (24:11): https://youtu.be/5KV24umRZ_g **

𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:

► 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛.
► 𝐴𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒.
► 𝐴 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚.
► 𝐷𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤.
► 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 [𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝐾𝑜𝑛𝑔] 𝑗𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒. 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.
► 𝐻𝐾 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦. 

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:
Bhakti Mathur is an award-winning author.  She has written two best-selling book series with   over 16 books.  Her first series - Amma Tell Me – is children’s picture books on Indian mythologies and festivals.  Her recent second series - Amma Take Me - introduces children to major faiths through their important places of worship.

Bhakti has written more than 25 articles for SCMP on culture, life, health and fitness.  She has also written poems, essays and spoken at top literary festivals in Hong Kong and India.  She has also worked as a Radio talk show host for RTHK and volunteered at many NGOs as a writer ambassador and mentor.

Before becoming an author, Bhakti was a private banker to high net worth clients in Asia for over 20 years.  Bhakti is an avid running enthusiast.  She has run several marathons, loves to hike and do yoga.

In March 2019, Bhakti received Mrs Shroff Inspiring Women Award in the category of Literature in Hong Kong.

** 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 (24:54): https://youtu.be/Q3h5WE2WWC8 **

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:

Bernard Chan is the Convenor of the Non-official Members of Executive Council of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Deputy to the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China.  He is President of Asia Financial Holdings and Chairman of Asia Insurance, one of the financially strongest insurers in Hong Kong.

Bernard sits on the Board of several for-profit and non-profit organizations, including Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Cathay Pacific, Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Pomona College.  He is engaged in long list of social initiatives in areas of welfare, quality of life and education.

Bernard is recipient of many awards and honorary degrees over the years, including Gold Bauhinia Star and Justice of the Peace by Hong Kong govt.

𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:

Grace is a domestic helper from Philippines, working in Hong Kong since 2014.  She is currently working with her second employer, an India/American family.

Grace became a domestic helper to support her ageing parents back in Philippines.  Her first job was in Saudi Arabia.

A constant learner by nature, Grace uses her free time to learn new skills.  This led her to develop her passion for cooking, learn agricultural farming, acquire certification for Elderly care, learn swimming and take courses in Financial Management.  Grace is a great cook, a fitness enthusiast and loves to hike.  Her dream is to open her own fine dining restaurant one day in her hometown of Samar in Philippines.