Think Asia – Think Hong Kong

Business Conference
„Think Asia – Think Hong Kong”
Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry
October 7, 2013 from 09:30h – approx. 13:30h
Hong Kong Delegation Members
Ir Steve S F Wong (MHKIE, MIEEE, MAES), Founder and Managing Director,
BillionGroup Technologies Limited
 Managing Director, BillionGroup Technologies Limited
 Executive Director of S&B Sustainable Building Technologies Ltd
 Executive Director of APEK Consulting Group.
 Director of Board of Administration, CIE Hong Kong (with CIE’s headquarter in
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Past Chairman of Project Management Exchange Centre.
Past Chairman of Americas Committee, Hong Kong General Chamber of
Commerce
President of the Hong Kong Energy Conservation Association
Chairman of Energy & Environment, The Hong Kong Federation of Innovative
Technologies and Manufacturing Industries
Member of Electronic and Electrical Appliance Advisory Committee, Hong Kong
Trade Development Council (2007 – 2011)
Member of Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Trade
Development Council (2011 – 2013)
Convener of Energy and Environment Taskforce, China Committee, Hong Kong
General Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Steve Wong was born in Hong Kong and educated in Hong Kong Polytechnic and
Warwick University, UK. Mr. Wong is the Founder and Managing Director of BillionGroup
Technologies Limited.
With more than twenty-eight years’ electrical and mechanical consultancy experience and
professional knowledge, Steve Wong is a professional Energy Consultant with core
specialization in Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection for the Building and
Manufacturing Industries. With his contribution in the manufacturing industries, Mr. Wong
has helped many manufacturers in successfully reducing energy consumption and
improving manufacturing competitiveness in their region. Apart from his business, Mr.
Wong has been actively serving the community via different channels and organizations
including but not limited to HKSAR Government, HKGCC, HKTDC, HKEnCA, FHKI, ESDI
and IEAL.
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Dr. K. S. Wang, Vice President and Group Director IC Design Group
Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)
Dr Wang Keh-chung was appointed to the position of Vice President & Group Director of
IC Design Group in April 2009. He is responsible for formulating and implementing R&D
strategies, identifying business opportunities, establishing roadmaps, and providing
technological solutions for a wide spectrum of IC product development aimed at
technology transfer to industrial customers.
Before joining ASTRI, he was Chief Engineer of UMC's System & Architecture Support
Division in the USA, directing analog/RF IC development and design support. He had 24
years of experience in high-speed IC development and management at Rockwell,
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Conexant, OpNext, HRL, and UMC. He and his colleagues pioneered the development of
GaAs HBT technologies that have been applied broadly in power amplifiers of cellular
phones, lightwave communication ICs, and data converters. He built and led IC design
teams that realized multi-GHz ADCs, DACs, and 10-40 Gb/s optical communication ICs
and products, as well as numerous CMOS analog/RF ICs.
Dr Wang was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2012. He was a recipient of Rockwell's 1994
Engineer of the Year Award, and 1995 Chairman's Team Award. He was also a recipient
of R&D 100 Awards organized by “R&D Magazine” in 1996. He served in numerous
technical, advisory, and community-service committees. He was a guest editor of Journal
of Solid-State Circuits. Dr Wang co-authored 150 journal and conference papers in the
areas of physics, electronic devices, circuits, and systems. He received a B.S. degree in
Physics from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from California
Institute of Technology.
Professor Albert Cheung-Hoi YU, Ph.D, Chairman of Hong Kong
Biotechnology Organisation, Chairman & CEO of Hai kang Life Corporation
Limited
Professor Albert Yu is a renowned neuroscientist and bio-entrepreneur who has devoted
over two decades in neuroscience and infectious disease research and had significant
contributions to molecular neurobiology and molecular diagnosis. Professor Yu is the ViceDirector of the Neuroscience Research Institute, Professor of the Department of
Neurobiology and also a Professor at the Infectious Disease Center at Peking University.
He is also the Chairman & CEO of Hai Kang Life Corporation Limited (HKLife), a Hong
Kong-based biotechnology company with operations in Hong Kong and Beijing and is
specialized in the R&D and commercialization of clinical and veterinary molecular
diagnostics, as well as various cutting-edge food testing technologies and their
optimization into user-friendly, cost-effective mobile field units (MFUs). HKLife’s core
technology, EFADchip, has been recognized as a globally leading technology which will
overcome bottlenecks in existing lab-on-a-chip technologies and is expected to
revolutionize modern clinical diagnosis. The technology has been awarded the prestigious
2009 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Excellence Award for In-Vitro
Diagnostics.
Prof. Yu received his BSc, MSc and PhD from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
and spent subsequent years in the Canada, United States, Hong Kong, and China. Prof.
Yu’s broad cross-cultural experience base and active involvement in both the academic
and business environment has led to the strategic vision behind the success of the HKLife
team. Also, with a global network and an expanding base of established contacts in China,
Prof. Yu has been an important facilitator of dialogue regarding the development of
biotechnology in Asia. Over his professional and entrepreneurial career, Prof. Yu has
published several books and over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and conference
papers. He is also the co-inventor of numerous technologies with patents granted in major
countries.
Mr. Peter Sun, Chairman & Executive Director, KFM Kingdom Holdings Ltd.
Mr. Sun received his education in the United Kingdom, he has had more than 24 years of
experience in the metal stamping industry, he developed his expertise in metal stamping
when he first started his metal stamping factory in the name of Kingdom Industrial
Company in 1987. Mr. Sun serves numerous positions in various governmental bodies
and charity organizations:
Appointments in the PRC
 President of Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Enterprise’s Chamber of Commerce
 Committee member / Standing Committee member of Shenzhen Nanshan
District Standing Committee of Chinese People’s Consultative Conference
 Vice-Chairman of Shenzhen Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment
 Committee member of Anhui Provincial Committee of CPPCC
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Current appointments in Hong Kong
 Director and Committee Member of the Hong Kong Youth Industrialists Council
Foundation Limited
 Honorary Vice-President of Hong Kong Police Basketball Club
 Committee Member of Vetting Committee for the Professional Services
Development Assistance Scheme
 Director of Automotive Parts and Accessory Systems R&D Centre Ltd
 Current advisor of Yan Chai Hospital Director of Automotive parts and
Accessory Systems R&D Centre ltd
Ir Prof. John Mok, SMIEEE, FHKIE, D.Mgt, FHKIoD, Co-founder and Chairman of
Automatic Manufacturing Ltd., Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Medical
and Healthcare Device Manufacturers Association
Ir Mok is the Co-founder and Chairman of Automatic Manufacturing Ltd. (AML) which was an
electronic products manufacturing company founded in Hong Kong since 1976. The AML is one
of the world's best design and manufacturing services provider of electronics products, including
medical and healthcare devices, automotive electronics, telecom products, industrial controls
and home automation products. With the expansion in recent years, the AML currently hires over
3000 workforce.
Ir Mok is also the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device
Manufacturers Association which was established for the medical and healthcare device
manufacturing industry in Hong Kong in 2003. With over 35 years of solid experience in
engineering and manufacturing of electronics, Ir Mok has served as Industry Advisor of Hong
Kong Trade Development Council, and Hong Kong Government Industry Department, and as
Advisory Committee Chairman for local universities including HKU and CUHK. Ir Mok was the
Chairman of the Departmental Advisory Committee for the period from 2005 to 2011 and he has
also served as an external panel member for the Departmental Review held in April 2013.
Representatives from the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation
Mr. Allen Ma, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Allen Ma was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Science & Technology
Parks Corporation (HKSTPC) in July 2013. In this role, he leads and manages Hong Kong
Science Park, InnoCentre and three Industrial Estates that are entities within HKSTPC.
Allen believes technology plays a key role in fuelling Hong Kong’s economic transformation.
Hence, he is committed to providing world class infrastructure, technical and support
services so as to increase the competitiveness of the city as a regional hub for science and
technology innovation while building ever stronger collaboration with the Mainland.
Over the past 30 years, Allen has held senior executive positions with a number of
multinational corporations primarily in the information and communications technology
sector. In his most recent role, Allen worked for British Telecom plc as President, Asia Pac
where he led the team to rebuild BT's presence in the region to a profitable scale and
strengthen its capability in serving the needs for networked-IT services of multinational
corporations. In 2006, he executed an aggressive regional expansion programme which
included two major acquisitions in India and Singapore and a Joint Venture in Japan.
Between 2001 and 2005, Allen worked for Motorola Inc. Global Telecom Solutions Sector
as VP & General Manager of Asia where he coached a team to win many customer
contracts worth hundreds of million US$, riding on the growth in demand for cellular
services in emerging South and Southeast Asia markets. Through a “Choose to be Chosen”
strategy, an improved understanding of customer needs and an uncompromised dedication
to customer satisfaction, his team trebled the amount of sales revenue and achieved
leading market share in many countries. Allen holds an MBA from the University of Toronto
and is a fellow member of both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK and
the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK. He is also a Certified Management
Accountant of Canada.
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Mr. Andrew Young, Vice President, Marketing & Sales
Mr. Andrew Young Meng-cheung has been the Vice President, Marketing & Sales of Hong
Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTPC) since September 2011.
Mr. Young is responsible for formulating and executing strategies and policies of the
Marketing and Sales Division, assisting in drawing up strategies for global marketing &
sales as well as customer satisfaction services of the Corporation. He is involved in
identifying key potential business tenants and attracting such investments from both
overseas and locally. Also under his purview is promoting the development of Hong Kong
Science Park Phase 3.
Mr. Young brings more than 20 years of experience in senior management positions in the
high technology industry and a strong network of contacts in Hong Kong and overseas. In
his past work exposures, Mr. Young has successfully identified business opportunities,
associated with technology and diverse fields covering bio-tech, physical engineering,
material science, design and soft technology.
Mr. Young advanced his career in the business development and management consulting
area after working several years as an engineer in the construction and defence sectors in
Australia. Prior to joining HKSTPC, Mr. Young joined the Hong Kong Productivity Council as
Senior Consultant and later was appointed as the Director of Partnership Development of
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) where he set up the Institute for Enterprises
that forged close partnership between commercial sector companies and the university. He
has also set up the PolyU Enterprises Ltd. and managed related technology spin-off
companies, including the renowned MyCar electric car project that he initiated in 2002 and
implemented all the way through the company’s merger with a US enterprise in 2010.
Mr. Young obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the
South Australian Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration Degree
from the University of South Australia.
Dr. HL Yiu, Head of Electronics Cluster
Dr. Yiu is currently the head of electronic cluster of the Hong Kong Science and Technology
Parks Corporation. Dr. Yiu has a wealth of technical and management experience in the
field of information technology, computing, telecommunications, integrated circuit design,
new product development, sales and business development.
Dr. Yiu has worked in various departments of the Motorola Semiconductor Hong Kong for
fifteen years. He also has experience in start-up companies. When Dr. Yiu served as
General Manager of Motorola network and computing systems semiconductor products
group Asia, he managed a business operation of more than US$600 million. Prior to this,
Dr. Yiu was responsible for a number of technology research and development projects,
including the famous Dragon Ball microprocessor for handheld computers, and he is a
holder of eight patents.
Dr. Yiu graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University with Bachelor of Electronic
Engineering. He has Master degrees in Electronic Engineering of The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, EMBA and MSc Finance of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He also has Doctor of Business Administration degree of The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University. He is currently a fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE).
Mr. Simon Sze, Cluster Manager (Biotech), Hong Kong Science and
Technology Parks Corporation
Simon has been working as a Cluster Manager for HKSTPC since Oct of 2007. His main
responsibility is to build biotech cluster in Hong Kong Science Park with team members. He
has a major focus in medical devices and diagnostics. Before joining HKSTPC, Simon
worked as a product manager in GE Healthcare and he had more than 17 years working
experience in Greater China.
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