BEC EnviroSeries Conference-Transforming Business for Sustainability Session 2

Mr Ed Lam
Chief Executive Officer, LFX Executive Director of the Board, Li & Fung

Chief Executive Officer at LFX and Executive Committee Board Member of Li & Fung.  LFX is an offshoot of Li & Fung focusing on capitalizing on new digital opportunities including supply chain fintech in transforming the retail industry and enabling supply chain sustainability. Previously Chief Financial Officer at Li & Fung, responsible for Corporate Development and Global Finance Operations.

Over 25 years of strategic, financial, and commercial experience with deep supply chain knowledge. Proven track record in execution, running businesses full P&L responsibility, and driving strategic and financial initiatives, including ecosystem alliances with tech start-ups, VC investments, M&A, capital markets, working capital optimization and new business model initiatives. Led the digital transformation and reorganization of Li & Fung as a core member of the Executive Committee.

The Asset’s ‘Regional CFO of the Year’ in 2017 and ‘Best CFO in Asia’ from 2014 – 2016.

Prior to joining Li & Fung, Ed was Head of Hong Kong Global Banking, Managing Director at Citi, and Executive Director of Telecom, Media, Technology and M&A at Morgan Stanley executing US$100 billion of M&A, capital markets and loan underwriting transactions. Practiced public accounting as CPA at Coopers & Lybrand (PwC).

A graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program, Ed also has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a BAA from The University of Texas at Austin, and an MIT Executive Certificate in Blockchain Technologies.

Ms Payal Jain
Head of Sustainability - Global Production, H&M Group

Experience in textile industry for almost 23 years in Supply Chain including factories, buying agencies and Brands.  Labour Rights and Industrial Relations has been the core to my work. Empowering people, collaboration with Business partners and Stakeholders to create a Sustainable Fashion has been the approach in every role that I have worked.

I have worked in India & Bangladesh within the area of Sustainability and South Korea where Sustainability was part of driving Sustainable Business. Based in Hongkong now, responsible for Sustainability for Global Production together with the team of experts working on Social and Environmental topics.

I believe sustainability is an enabler to a fair and long-term business model where we can calculate the social and environmental development and impact within the countries where we operate.

Mr Michael Fitzgerald
Group Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Oriental Overseas Container Line Limited

Michael Fitzgerald is the Group Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Orient Overseas Container Line (“OOCL”). He has been a Director of OOCL since June 2018 and a member of the Executive Committee of OOCL since 2014. He joined OOCL in 2014 as Group Finance Director and was appointed Group Deputy Chief Financial Officer in 2015.  He holds the degrees of BA and MA from the University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Mr Fitzgerald started his career at KPMG in London in 1995, and having qualified as a Chartered Accountant, moved to the Structured Finance division of Société Générale in 1999, where he enjoyed an almost 16-year career, holding various posts in London, Hong Kong and Paris.

Mr Mark Slade
Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Hong Kong and Macau

Mark Slade is the Managing Director for DHL Global Forwarding Hong Kong and Macau, the freight forwarding division of DHL, since January 2017.

Prior to his appointment, Mark was the Managing Director of DHL Global Forwarding Japan, having assumed that role in 2011. Mark joined DHL Global Forwarding in 2002 as Director, Airfreight at the Asia Pacific regional office in Singapore.

Prior to joining DHL, Mark held various sales and management positions, where he was based in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Singapore. He was the Chairman of the Logistics and Freight Committee, European Business Council in Japan from 2011 until 2015, and he has written frequently for the Nikkei, Japan's leading business daily.

A native of Canada, he has spent more than twenty years living in the Asia Pacific region, working in the logistics industry. Mark is a graduate of the University of Toronto, with a Bachelor of Arts (with distinction), joint specialist in history and political science, minor in economics.

Mark is a chartered fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation (FCILT), and vice-chair of the Shipping & Transport Committee at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce (HKGCC).

Mr Benjamin Wong
Head of Transportation, Infrastructure and Advanced Manufacturing, Invest Hong Kong

Mr Benjamin Wong is the Head of Transport, Infrastructure and Advanced Manufacturing at Invest Hong Kong, the Government department responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment.  He has a much diversified portfolio covering advanced manufacturing, re-industrialisation, infrastructure, aviation, maritime, mass transit, logistics, energy and natural resources.

Mr Wong’s contribution in promoting Hong Kong’s various sectors has helped sustaining and growing these industries in HK and Asia.  He has collaboration with the business communities and government counterparts on promoting HK as the conduit and enabler of major initiatives such as the Greater Bay Area and the Belt and Road Initiative.  He has also been working closely with the Transport Bureau in promoting HK as the international transport hub.  With the establishment of the Maritime and Port Board, the collaboration is even closer.  He is a member of the Maritime and Port Board’s Maritime and Port Development Committee, Manpower Development Committee and Promotion and Event Committee.

With extensive experience in both the private and public sectors, Mr Wong’s expertise combines business knowledge, economic development, international marketing and investment promotion.  Before joining InvestHK, Mr Wong has spent over ten years with major European and American companies with regional responsibilities.

Mr Wong holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong; a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta, Canada.  He has also attended Peking University’s National Affairs Studies Programme and exchange programme at Shanghai Fudan University.  Mr Wong is a lifetime member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Society, an international academic honour society; and he is also the Alumni Career Advisor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Moderator: Mr Benjamin Wong, Head of Transportation, Infrastructure and Advanced Manufacturing, Invest Hong Kong

Keynote Presentation

Mr Ed Lam, CEO, LFX and Executive Director of the Board, Li & Fung

Panel Discussion

• Ms Payal Jain, Head of Sustainability – Global Production, H&M Group
• Mr Michael Fitzgerald, Group Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Oriental Overseas Container Line Limited
• Mr Mark Slade, Managing Director, DHL Global Forwarding Hong Kong and Macau