Mr. HF Chan

Mr. HF Chan received his MBA, MSc and BSc from the Columbia University. He has been a key member of the Asian alumni organizations for Colombia since its inception. He has spent 22 years doing business in China, involving in trading, investing in joint ventures, and strategic branding and retailing.

Major brands he has handled include PUMA and Cerruti 1881 for markets in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian, and Hangzhou.

HF lived in Shanghai for the past decade and was managing director of several renowned publicly listed companies and the owner of a private company.

Mr. Ambrose Chan

Mr. Ambrose Chan joined CUHK as Adjunct Professor since September 2007.

He has held top regional management positions for various multinational companies including Novartis Consumer Health, Proctor and Gamble, Nestle China, Vitasoy International Holdings in UK, Europe, China and South East Asia.

Ambrose earned his MBA from University of Western Ontario in 1982 and BBA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1978. His professional interests cover strategic management, international marketing and leadership development, with an Asia Pacific focus.

Mr. Larry Poon

Mr. Larry Poon serves as a director and a management consultant for a wide range of companies in the Asia-Pacific region. He lectures on marketing and China business for CUMBA, MSc in Marketing and OneMBA.

One of his earlier top management assignment was the General Manager of a leading Chinese building materials company. With his business achievement, he was subsequently appointed as the Commercial Director of China by a leading sanitary ware company from Spain.

Larry has been providing consultancy services for more than ten Hong Kong, Chinese and multinational companies in the areas of strategic planning, strategic marketing, market entry strategies and joint venture par tner ships . He has been leading consul tancy programs with company boards and senior executives in “Entering into China” projects and feasibility studies for international brands.

Dr. Wilton Chau

Dr. Wilton Chau is the Founder and Managing Partner of QLeap Asia, a venture capital firm with a focus in Asia. A veteran venture capitalist with over 20 years of experience, Dr Chau has worked for ICBC, AIG, and another government related investment fund company in Singapore. His investment portfolio covers Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and the PRC. Successfully completed investment projects ranged from US$200,000 bio-informatic technology project to US$28 billion infrastructure project.

Dr. Chau also served on the Investment Assessor Panel of SERAP, the Hong Kong Government’s HK$5 billion Innovation and Technology Fund from 2000 to 2006. He holds DBA, MBA, BSc and Bachelor of Law degrees.