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Ian Betts
Global Head of Risk Analysis, G4S Risk Consulting
Hosted By the Trade & Investment Committee
Apr 1, 2015 (Wed) - 8:00am
Adam Hugill, Partner and Head of Employment Practice, Oldham, Li & Nie Lawyers
Hosted By the Entrepreneurs/SME Committee
Apr 9, 2015 (Thu) - 12:00pm
Hosted By the Women of Influence Committee
Apr 10, 2015 (Fri) - 12:30pm
Dr. Tao Wang
Managing Director and Head of China Economic Research
UBS Investment Bank
Hosted By the China Business Committee
Apr 13, 2015 (Mon) - 12:00pm
Hosted by Intellectual Property Committee; Women of Influence Committee
Apr 13, 2015 (Mon) - 6:30pm
Hosted By the Transportation & Logistics Committee
Apr 15, 2015 (Wed) - 8:00am
(Just to let you know that the briefing session exclusive for AmCham members have been cancelled. If you’re interested in visiting the ICT Expo organized by Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Please feel free to contact Ms. Kelly Tsang at tel: 2240-4306 or email: kelly.tsang@hktdc.org to receive an admission badge for your visit to the show from 13-16 April 2015).
Hosted By the Entrepreneurs/SME Committee
Apr 15, 2015 (Wed) - 9:00am
Peter Woo, GBM, GBS, JP
Chairman, The Wharf (Holdings) Limited and Senior Director, Wheelock and Company
Apr 16, 2015 (Thu) - 12:00pm
Zane Moi
Amazon Web Services, Head of Business Development, Hong Kong & Macau
Hosted By the Information & Communication Technology Committee
Apr 16, 2015 (Thu) - 12:00pm
Hosted by China Business & Financial Services Committees
Apr 17, 2015 (Fri) - 7:45am
Kamal Ahmad
Founder, Asian University for Women
Hosted By the Women of Influence Committee
Apr 17, 2015 (Fri) - 8:00am
Nidhi Kush Shah
Founder & Director, Alchemy Consulting
Hosted By the Communications & Marketing Committee
Apr 17, 2015 (Fri) - 12:00pm
Dr. James Wu, Vice President for Lifestyle and Spiritual Affairs of Hong Kong and Tsuen Wan Adventist Hospitals
Hosted By the Insurance & Healthcare Committee
Apr 20, 2015 (Mon) - 8:00am
Hosted By the Human Resources Committee
Apr 21, 2015 (Tue) - 8:00am
Gavin Morgan, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Leasing, Hong Kong, JLL
Hosted By the Real Estate Committee
Apr 21, 2015 (Tue) - 12:00pm
Smilely Lam
Senior Service Promotion Manager, Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Apr 22, 2015 (Wed) - 8:00am
Hosted By the Food & Beverage Committee
Apr 22, 2015 (Wed) - 12:30pm
Paul D. O’Rourke
International Energy Expert
Hosted By the Energy Committee
Apr 23, 2015 (Thu) - 8:00am
Hosted By the Apparel & Footwear Committee
Apr 23, 2015 (Thu) - 10:30am
-Book your * Exclusive VIP Table / VIP Table/ Corporate Table NOW to avoid disappointment! (Only 1 table remaining)
-Individual Tickets now available (Strictly Limited)
*Please note added entitlements offered to Exclusive VIP Table sponsors*
Hosted By the Ball Committee Committee
Apr 25, 2015 (Sat) - 6:45pm
Hosted By the Trade & Investment Committee
Apr 27, 2015 (Mon) - 12:15pm
Katie O’Hara, Executive Consultant, CONNECT COMMUNICATION
Apr 28, 2015 (Tue) - 12:00pm
Hosted By the Real Estate Committee
Apr 29, 2015 (Wed) - 12:30pm
* Dr. Witman Hung, Principal Liaison Officer for Hong Kong, Shenzhen Qianhai Authority
*Prof. Xufei Ma, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Associate Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Chinese University of Hong Kong
*Prof. Yinggang Zhou, Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Finance, School of Hotel and Tourism Management and Director, Center for Hospitality and Real Estate Research, Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
Hosted By the China Business Committee
Apr 30, 2015 (Thu) - 12:00pm












































































































Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross, Chief Reputation Strategist, Weber Shandwick












*Po-chuen Lam, Principal Trade Controls Officer, Customs & Excise Department of Hong Kong
*Hoo-lam Lo, Chief Trade Controls Officer, Customs & Excise Department of Hong Kong
*Peter Ko, Trade Controls Officer,Customs & Excise Department of Hong Kong
Gao Yu
China Country Director. Landesa
Felicia Choy
Co-Founder & Vice President
Choy-Valentine & Company
Jeff Klein
President and CEO
Global Foodbanking Network (GFN)
John French
Country President, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau
ACE Insurance Limited
Mark Cosgrove
Director of Instruction
Dale Carnegie Hong Kong
Philip Cheng, CFO, FedEx Express
Katie O’Hara
Executive Consultant
Connect Communication Limited
Mr. Marcus Westling, the Corporate Executive Board
Jim Fagan
Vice President & Managing Director
Rackspace Hosting Asia Pacific
Gerard Baker
Deputy Editor in Chief
The Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Wong, PhD MH
Director, Sino-Forest Applied Research Centre for Pearl River Delta Environment
Director, Hong Kong Organic Resource Centre
Convener, Task for Campus Sustainability,
Professor, Department of Biology
Hong Kong Baptist University
Dana Breitenstein
Regional Director, Asia Pacific
Cartus Intercultural & Language Solutions
Alexi Bhanja, Technical Director, Water & Environment Group, SMEC Asia Limited
Dannel P. Malloy
Governor of the State of Connecticut
Tom Skotidas
Founder and Director, Skotidas
Sarah Chin
National Indirect Tax Leader, Deloitte China and
Tax Managing Partner, Deloitte Hong Kong
Kristina Koehler
Director, Klako Group
Tom Pinansky
Senior Foreign Attorney - Barun Law
Vice Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Seoul, Korea
Jerry Gelsomino
Michael Kobold
Founder
Kobold Watches
Allen Wong
Director
Deloitte Consulting Hong Kong
* Lane Aldred, Director of Maritime and Security Services, Control Risk
* Richard MacNamara, Director of the West of England P&I Club
* John Gregory, Regional Director for Protection Vessels International (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Dr. Stefan Al
Director, Urban Design Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design
The University of Hong Kong
Steven D. Winegar, Partner, Paul Hastings
* Professor Kalok Chan, Synergis-Geoffrey YEH Chair Professor of Finance and Head of Finance Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Moderator:
Frank Lavin, Chairman, Public Affairs
Charles Evans
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Co-organized by Invest HK
Joan Xu, Management Consultant, Insigniam
*Christopher Geary, COO, Aisanet Group of Companies
* Nidhi Kush Shah, Founder and Director, Alchemy Consulting
Tony Reno
Regional Support Manager, Multimedia Solutions, Asia Thomson Reuters
*Saori Dubourg, BASF
*Umran Beba, PepsiCo
*Shanthi Flynn, Walmart Asia
*Pooja Grover, Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC
*Karen Koh, Intermedia
*Shalini Mahtani, Community Business
*Lizette Smook, Innovasions
*Susan Reingold, Grey Group
Frank Lavin, Chairman, Public Affairs, Edelman Asia Pacific
Dr. Laura Nelson Carney and Dr. Alexander Ng, Associate Principals, McKinsey & Company, Hong Kong
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Dr. Kyle Lundby, Ph.D.
Director Asia Pacific
Valtera Corporation
Guy Fraser, MDS Associate Director, Miller Heiman
Steve McWhirter
Senior Vice President
Enterprise Sales for salesforce.com, Asia Pacific
Eugene Tan
Managing Director
Resources and Energy Group
HSBC
Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO, Gallup
Co-hosted by:
Apparel & Footwear Committee Chair
Mr. Andre Leroy
Marketing Director of Modern Testing Services
Energy Committee Chair
Mr. Sean Purdie
Vice Chairman of Independent Power Producers Forum
Ferdi Stolzenberg and Martin Roeth
Directors, mobileFOXX Holdings Ltd, Hong Kong
Gigi Lui, Account Director, Head of Digital Practice, Hill & Knowlton
Casey Lau, Founder and CEO of Popcorn Media Network and Crispy Entertainment
Meling Lam, Executive Director, HKCOSME.COM
Moderator: Eric Pong, Founder and Director, Y Stage
Claire Goodchild, Executive Director, Learning and Development, Morgan Stanley
Brian. J. Chitester, Chief Personnel Officer, PepsiCo Asia Pacific
Moderated by: Peter Rolston, Principal, CZAR Partners
Ron Chung, Group Environmental Manager, CLP Holdings Ltd.
Sei Liu, Business Development Manager, Tesla Motors HK Ltd.
Professor John A. Quelch
Vice President and Dean
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Michael Blakeley
Director
The VALUE Project Managed by Nathan Associates, Inc
Elizabeth Thomson, Founder & President, ICS Trust (Asia) Ltd.
Alexandra Harney, Author of “The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage”
Uhi Hui, Founder and CEO, PR People Consultancy
Moderator: Janet De Silva, Dean, Richard Ivey Sc
Helga Ying
Senior Director of Worldwide Government Affairs and Public Policy
Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.)
Jeffrey Hilsgen, CPSC Regional Director, Asia-Pacific
Sarah Fox, Director Product Marketing, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort
Argha Sen, Head of Marketing and CRM, Toys R Us Asia
Moderator: Loron Orris, OMI Media Limited
Joel Whitaker, Head of Research, Asia Pacific
Jake DeBerry Account Director, Asia Pacific from the Corporate Executive Board
Susan Conley
Author of ‘The Foremost Good Fortune’
Grace Lam
Vice President, Public & Government Affairs - Hong Kong & Southern China
ExxonMobil Hong Kong Limited
Mark Loasby
Managing Director
Connect Communication
Photographic exhibition by Robin Moyer
Governor Brian Schweitzer and First Lady Nancy Schweitzer
The State of Montana, US
David Mitchell
General Manager
Kronos Greater China
*Simon Galpin, Director-General, Invest Hong Kong
*Elizabeth Thomson, Entrepreneur; Founder and President of ICS Trust (Asia) Limited; Governor of The American Chamber of Commerce
*Donald Austin, Managing Director of Austin Pacific; Chair of the Entrepr
John Dickson
Director CIO
Strategy Forty2 Limited
Dr. Isabella Liu, Special Counsel, Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong
Gloria Poon, Solicitor, Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong
Chandran Nair
Author
Founder & CEO
Global Institute For Tomorrow
*Stanley Ching, Senior Managing Director and the Head of Real Estate Group, CITIC Capital Holdings Limited
*Nicholas Loup, Chief Executive, Grosvenor Limited
*Paul Keogh, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, RREEF Asia Pacific
Benjamin Grubbs - Executive Director, Interactive Media at Turner Broadcasting Asia Pacific
* Dr. Che-Kit Lin, Chief Executive & Medical Director, The Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service
* Dr. Edmond Ma, Director of Clinical and Molecular Pathology, The Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the
Dr Bob Murray and Dr Alicia Fortinberry, Fortinberry Murray
Martin Roll
Business and Brand Strategist
Karin Malmstrom
Director
Cotton Council International (CCI)
?Stephen Frost, Executive Director, CSR Asia
?Brenda Lee, Consultant, Caring Company Scheme & HKCSS CSR Institute, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS)
Daniel Andresen, Regional Security Manager – MEA Travel Security Services, a joint venture of International SOS and Control Risks
Adrian Hayes, Adventurer - Speaker - Corporate Coach
Elaine Wong
Account Director, Healthcare Communications and Public Affairs, Hill & Knowlton Asia Ltd
Professor Donald Jacobs
Dean Emeritus
Gaylord Freeman Professor of Banking
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Kelly Austin, Partner, Hong Kong, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Benjamin P. Fishburne III, Resident Partner, Hong Kong, Winston & Strawn LLP
Gregory Shultz, Vice President, Legal and Compliance Division, Morgan Stanley, Hong Kong
Mark A. Montgomery, Ph.D., Independent College Consultant
Albert Helmig, President, Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange ("HKMEx" or the "Exchange")
Theron Skees, Director, Creative Development and Show Quality, Walt Disney Imagineering
Brian Chitester, Chief Personnel Officer, Asia Pacific Region PepsiCo
John Bell
Global Managing Director, 360° Digital Influence, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
Cathy Loose, Benefits Business Development Leader, Asia Pacific
Towers Watson
Mark Liversidge, Chief Marketing Officer, CSL Limited
Wai Yee Lam, Managing Director, Monitise Hong Kong
Bernie Tay, Head of Mobile Sales, Greater China, Google Mobile
Moderator: Scott Frain, Mobile Market Entrepreneur and Investor
The Hon. Carol A. Rodley, US Ambassador to Cambodia
Alistair Lamont, International Practice Director, The alphaeight institute
Andrew Banks, Managing Director, Talent2
Special Agent Dennis M. Fetting, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ICE – Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
Conrad W. Wong, Intellectual Property Rights Officer, US Consulate General, Un
Stephen M. Young, Consul General of the United States of America in Hong Kong
Joan Xu, Management Consultant, Insigniam Performance
John M. Thompson , Chancellor, The University of Western Ontario
Alan Zhang , Partner, Goldman Sachs
Leif Nielsen, Cloud Solution Architect, APAC, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
Aryn Baker, Middle East Bureau Chief, TIME
Moderator: Mark Michelson, Senior Counselor, APCO Worldwide, and Past AmCham Chairman
Michael Friedlander, COO/CFO, APG Asset Management Asia, Ltd.
William Blumenthal, Partner, Clifford Chance
Bert Verdonck, Certified LinkedIn Trainer, Networking Coach, Creative Lifehacker
KC MAK, Chief Engineer/Energy Efficiency, EMSD
Kristin Lowe and Pauline Wong
Facilitators, Organising Solutions
Peter Rolston, Co-founder, CZAR Partners
Jennifer Van Dale, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Merle A. Hinrichs, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Global Sources
Moderator: Elizabeth L. Thomson, Founder and President, ICS Trust (Asia) Limited
Mayor Jean Quan, City of Oakland
Omar Benjamin, Executive Director, Port of Oakland
Loron Orris, Director and Founder, ReturningHope.com
The Hon. Audrey Eu, Legislative Councillor
Prof. Bill Barron, Division of Environment, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Stephen McDonald, Senior Emergency Adviser, Global Emergency Team, Save the Children
Anita Leung, AmCham Intellectual Property Committee Board Liaison
James Collison, AmCham Intellectual Property Committee Co-vice-chair
Clement Leung, JP, Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, HKSAR
Paul Kan, Managing Director, Amherst International Limited
Richard Lancaster, Managing Director, CLP Power Hong Kong
Chan Cudennec, CEO & Founder, SOL Wellness
Kin Wah Wong, Ph.D., President, A-D Technology
Joseph Baladi
Author of The Brutal Truth About Asian Branding
Hong-Phong B. Pho
Commerce Country Desk Officer for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Market Access and Compliance (MAC), International Trade Administration (ITA)
U.S. Department of Commerce
Richard Bates
Frank Wan
Andrea Richey, Managing Director, Legal Marketing China
Frank Wong, President, Asia, Scholastic
Alex Capri
Richard Weisman
Robert Keys
Berin Chan
Chris Pollak
Mike Haskamp
Dr. Barry Connell
Dr. Colin Wallace
Mayor Richard M. Daley
Dr. Elliot J. Feldman
Corinne Heijn
Gordon Feller
Peter J. Miscovich
David Ho
William (Bill) Barney
Chinchie Killfoil
Ann L. Gilbert
Patrick Lee
Auret van Heerden