Contributors

Kenneth Au-Yeung

Kenneth Au-Yeung is a Registered Physiotherapist at Healing Hands Physiotherapy Centre. He has been interviewed by different TV shows and magazines for more than 80 times. He has a special interest in East-meets-West approach and now is an experienced acupuncturist and a Tai Chi for Arthritis Instructor.

Kenneth Chau

Kenneth Chau is the Country Manager, Hong Kong and Macau, Citrix. Over the course of his 16-year career, he has held consultancy, management, and business development roles in the finance, telecommunications, and IT sectors and worked for a number of leading global companies. Chau holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong and an M.Sc. in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Kenny Cheung

Kenny Cheung is an Associate of Baker & McKenzie.

Kevin Parry

Kevin Parry is Director for Consulting at Cogenic Hong Kong and an international adviser on programme management and business change. His particular interest is in the human factors of enabling change, such as multi-cultural leadership, stakeholder management and risk management.

Killian Kostiha

Killian Kostiha is a French digital marketer who started to work on SEO in 2008. He has more than 10 years confirmed experience in digital marketing and has worked in various countries (France, Spain, Bulgaria, Hong Kong).

He works in Hong Kong since 2014 and was SEO manager for iProspect Hong Kong (digital marketing agency) where he led a team who was managing the SEO strategy for iconic brands like Shangri-La or Peninsula. In 2015, he moved to Lane Crawford and was SEO manager during two years, before starting its own SEO agency, Get Clicks, in 2017. He offers tailored SEO and content marketing solutions for SMB, start-ups and larger groups in France and in Hong Kong.

Kim Ang

King Au

Dr. Au is Executive Director of Financial Services Development Council (FSDC). Prior to joining the FSDC, he was President of Value Partners Group Limited. Dr Au also served
as CEO of Eastspring Investments (Hong Kong) Limited and CEO of BOCHK Asset Management Limited. He also held various senior management positions at other financial
institutions including Baring, GMO and HSBC Global Asset Management.

Dr. Au was named CEO of the Year in Hong Kong by Asia Asset Management in 2012 and 2014. He was awarded the Medal of Honor by the HKSAR Government in 2008 for
his valuable contributions to the securities and asset management industry. He was also the Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI) from 2006 to
2008 and the Chairman of the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association in 2004/2005.

Dr Au is currently serving as a Council member of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Public Accountants, an Index Advisory Committee member of China Securities Index Co.,
Limited and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong among other public services.

Dr Au is a CFA Charterholder and a Senior Fellow of HKSI. He received his BA in Physics from the University of Oxford and PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics from the
University of Durham.

Kiran Pudi and Andrea Maessen

Kiran Pudi is a Senior Director at Simon-Kucher & Partners. Kiran is a core member of the Chemical practice at Simon-Kucher. He is an expert at pricing transformation and pricing strategy implementation, working with clients in the chemicals, industrials, private equity and high tech industries. He has worked extensively in Asia, across all the major countries, like Japan, China, India, Singapore and ASEAN countries. He has led numerous projects on pricing and commercial excellence.

Dr. Andrea Maessen is a Senior Partner and Global Head of the Chemicals and Construction Practice at Simon-Kucher. She specializes in the development of pricing strategies, the optimization of pricing processes and price systems and the improvement of sales efficiency and effectiveness. She has supported various global commercial transformation processes. Her work covers both, specialty and commodity products, in manufacturing and distribution businesses.

Kirsty Dougan

Kirsty Dougan is Managing Director of Asia for Vario at Pinsent Masons. Kirsty joined Vario in March 2019, and led the Hong Kong launch. Kirsty is responsible for Vario’s operations across Asia and the growth of the business in the region. Vario has become the leading law firm led provider of flexible legal solutions, representing over 500 lawyers across numerous jurisdictions. Kirsty possesses significant experience in this field and is a pioneer of alternative legal services in Asia as co-founder of an international ALSP business in the region and was the Managing Director there for over 8 years.

Konrad Chan

Konrad Chan is President, Asia Pacific of Global Payments and responsible for overseeing our business in all 12 markets throughout the entire Asia Pacific region.

Konrad has been with Global Payments since the inception of the Asia Pacific business in 2006 and most recently served as President, North Asia where he managed all the sales and business activities in the Greater China region and was responsible for the operational and compliance areas in Asia. He was previously Senior Vice President, Operations and Products where he led the launch of the mobile payment acceptance solution and the award-winning Premier customer service proposition.

Prior to Global Payments, Konrad served in several positions within HSBC Asia Pacific merchant acquiring function where he conducted strategic review of the merchant acquiring business in Asia Pacific, led new production development with the introduction of internet payment gateway and was responsible for the management of the bank’s acquiring business and daily operations in Mainland China.

Konrad began his career in the payment cards industry with Visa International in the client servicing area and progressed to serve as Director, Emerging Technology. He is a Member of the Visa Client Council for Asia Pacific and Councilor of UnionPay International Member Council.