An engineer by training, Singapore-born MIT-graduate Jessica Tan was a Global Partner at McKinsey & Company prior to joining Ping An Group. After a series of different roles, she is now the Co-Chief Executive and Executive Vice President of the insurance giant, bringing modern technology to the world of finance. Tan also holds directorship positions in a number of the group’s subsidiaries.

It’s a family affair at Wang On Group, with co-founders Tang Ching-ho and his wife, Yau Yuk-yin, occupying the chair and deputy-chair spots, and Tang’s son and daughter also involved in a business that spans boutique property developments, wet markets and pharmaceuticals. The latter interest, Wai Yuen Tong Medicine, dates back to the late 19th century and includes the Madame Pearl’s brand. Community aware, Tang steers two cross-border associations.

Along with her brothers, Francis and Alexander Lui, Paddy Tang Lui oversees the family’s Macau casino interests at Galaxy Entertainment, as well as property group K. Wah International Holdings, whose portfolio includes J Residence and the InterContinental Grand Stanford hotel. The McGill University alumnus formerly worked as a chartered accountant in London. A patron of the arts, Tang Lui co-founded Opera Hong Kong in 2003.

Over 30 years ago, NYU alum Tom joined Meadville, the printed-circuit-board maker founded by his late father, industrialist Tang Hsiang-chien. Tang junior, then Executive Director, stayed with the company as a Director when it was sold to US firm TTM Technologies. The brother of Henry Tang, he also sat on a slew of political article trade committees including the Hong Kong Exporters’ Association, of which he was Honorary Chairman.

For Tian Guoli, moving in 2017 from the smaller Bank of China to China Construction Bank, the country’s second-largest money lender, was a smooth transition since the Hubei Institute of Finance and Economics graduate had started his career there in 1983. He has also enjoyed spells at CITIC Group and China Cinda Asset Management Corporation. The multi-tasker also chairs Sino-German Bausparkassewithin the CCB group, and externally the China Banking Association and the Asian Financial Cooperation Association.

Li Tong was billed one of the Top 25 Women in Asia Pacific Finance and the Most Influential Women of the Year in 2017. She has worked with Bank of China Group for over two decades and is now CEO and Executive President of Bank of China International Holdings Limited. Since taking the lead in 2015, she has helped the bank build a more extensive network onshore and offshore. Beyond the group, she is also an Independent Director of Sun Life Everbright Asset Management Co., Ltd, the Vice President of the Chinese Securities Association of Hong Kong.

Ricky Tsang Chi Ming Chairman and CEO, Goldlion Holdings Ltd The youngest son of Goldlion founders Tsang Hin-chi and Wong Lei-kuan, Ricky Tsang assumed the chair of the apparel company in 2018 when his ailing father stepped down. He has been with Goldlion for 30 years, helping to fashion its growth from neckties to full menswear brand. An honorary citizen of Guangzhou and Meizhou, Tsang established a Proactive Think Tank to facilitate links between the mainland and Hong Kong.

One of the city’s most experienced hedge-fund managers, Nissim Tse has been immersed in finance since his Canadian university days. He co-founded Pi Investment (since sold to RAB Capital), is an Asian advisor of Timbercreek Capital, and has worked at Pacific Group and Sofaer Global Research (Hong Kong) Limited. He is now the CIO of Hexa Asset Management. Tse’s interests outside the office are wide-ranging: he teaches shorinjiryu karate and is a keen boxer, golfer and amateur yogi.

Tongji Medical University alum Dr Tsoi heads HK-listed pharmaceutical firm United Laboratories. With plants in Yuen Long, Zhuhai and Inner Mongolia, it is one of China’s leading exporters of pharmaceutical primary raw materials, and produces scores of medicines for sale in the mainland and Hong Kong. His sister, Choy Siu-chit, is also with the company.

The son of former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, Alan became Chief Financial Officer of his father’s shipping conglomerate, Orient Overseas (International), in 2016. In addition to overseeing the fiscal side of the company, he also sits on the board of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum and is an executive committee member of the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners. The Princeton grad was appointed a JP in 2017.

Dedicated to helping the less fortunate, Gigi Tung is the founder of Bo Charity Foundation, though perhaps she’s best known for leading its subsidiary, Food Angel, which recycles food waste to feed the city’s underprivileged. The organisation collects some five tonnes of food to prepare roughly 17,000 meals and distributes over 11,000 other meals and food packs every day. The daughter of Hong Kong stock market