Green Monday Food & Sustainability Summit

David Yeung is the founder and CEO of Green Monday Group. He is also an environmental advocate known for his commitment in tackling some of the world’s most pressing issues of climate change, food insecurity and public health as well as empowering individuals, communities, and corporations towards sustainable, healthy, and mindful living. David’s work has earned a number of awards including “EY Entrepreneur of The Year Award 2020”, “Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2018” by the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum, an “Ashoka Fellowship” by the Ashoka Foundation and the “Cathay ChangeMaker 2020” by Cathay Pacific Airways.

Jessie Lee oversees Bloomberg’s Greater China corporate philanthropy and APAC education programs. Previously, Jessie served as the China Program General Manager for the Goldman Sachs Foundation, helping lead the Goldman Sachs Philanthropy efforts. She also served as the Chief Operations Officer for the Berggruen Institute China Center.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

1) Increase renewable energy and reduce fossil fuels import 2) Enhance and build more recycling facilities.

Over the last 9 years, Rebekah has immersed herself in start-ups within F&B and FMCG industries, working across markets including New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong with experience spanning B2B, B2C and D2C. It’s important that the companies Rebekah joins ‘have a heart’ and actions are changing the world for a more sustainable future.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Greater accessibility to zero waste products – more accessible in terms of price and proximity. I’d like to see leading retailers prioritising such products and make changes to existing ranges, store wide. Great impact is possible when we all make small changes collectively, and increasing accessibility makes this more possible for the public.

Crystal Chan possesses extensive experience in corporate communications, sustainability and stakeholder engagement.

She is a member of the Board of Examiners of HKMA’s Sustainability Awards 2022, the MBA Alumni Advisory Board of HKUST, the Advisory Board of HKUST Connect and the board of JUST FEEL, a registered NGO advocating for compassionate communication.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Sustainability in action

Raymond is the co-founder and CEO of Farmacy HK Limited, the 1st urban farming technology company in Asia creating Smart Mobile Farms with cloudbased control capabilities for highly urbanized cities. Farmacy is one of the pioneers in driving new green movement locally, with the mission of enabling ecological farming of safe and fresh produce right in the city heart through decentralized Smart Mobile Farms and data-driven farming technologies.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

To develop an innovative and sustainable agriculture solution by combining environmental protection and green farming into one. We hope more people can work as partners to build a better and sustainable world together.

Sindy started her career in PR and advertising field and moved on to banking and tourism companies. She has been working for InvestHK for more than a decade, assisted hundreds of foreign companies to set up and expand in HK. Recently she is focusing efforts on promotion of carbon neutrality projects with particular interests in foodtech and food waste reduction.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Less food waste, eat more local produce.

Pippo is the supply chain head leading the strategic procurement and planning for multiple restaurants concepts in Hong Kong & Macau. He is also one of the functional lead in company’s sustainability committee who drives various sustainable initiatives from program development to execution.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

More successful industry best practice models and solution platforms developed to facilitate scalable roll-out into significant impact to the society.

Roman is a hospitality professional and began his career at the age of 19. He has a passion to provide quality F&B services. Throughout his journey, Roman has worked under several prestigious international hotel brands including Mandarin Oriental and Swire Hotels Group in Hong Kong.

Committed to provide a personal hospitality experience, Roman decided to open Hemingway inspired experimental cocktail bar “THE OLD MAN” – HK together with his partners in 2017.

Roman now is one of the Co-founder of The Hong Kong most dynamic and upbringing beverages spot “PENICILLIN”, and it is Hong Kong’s first sustainable bar with closed loop model of production.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Under the pandemic, it is a tough year for F&B industry in 2022 but I hope everyone will not forget our responsibility being part of the planet. We should remember that every tiny forces brought together will make a great impact. Therefore, we should do whatever we can do for our future generation, despite it can only reduce the use of straws or even a piece of paper, it would help a lot to keep up and the beauty and vibrant of this city.

Patrick is responsible for formulating and executing the Sustainable Development 2030 Strategy for Swire Properties’ global operations across Hong Kong, Chinese Mainland and U.S.A. portfolios. Through engaging stakeholders, setting science-based targets and developing action plans, he leads a team to manage the full spectrum of the Company’s environmental, social and economic impact and to integrate ESG considerations into every facet of the Company’s business.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

I hope to see HK able to establish a science-based approach to guide its efforts on decarbonisation and resource circularity.

Iris Lam is the Director of Sustainability, Global Development for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group (MOHG). Iris supports the Group’s sustainability governance structure and actively leads and collaborates with a team of likeminded and passionate colleagues and stakeholders across the globe towards achieving sustainability aspirations and initiatives. She bridges her passion for smart design with an eagerness to explore innovative business solutions that are responsible, sustainable, and truly address climate change concerns.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

I would personally like to see concerns from the greater business community be heard and well supported by forthcoming government dialogue, which lead to impactful policies and infrastructure investment.

Cintia Nunes is the Director of The Mills Fabrica and focuses on leading the team to become the go-to platform for sustainability, impact and innovation in the techstyle (technology x lifestyle) and agrifood tech space via Fabrica’s investment portfolio, incubation programme, spaces and Fabrica’s environmental and social impact accountability.

Prior to joining Fabrica, Cintia worked in strategy, insights and marketing at a FMCG MNC where she focused on consumer behavioral assessment and formalizing business strategies for more than 10 brands. She then pivoted to a Series A apparel startup where she helped drive brand awareness, customer acquisition, retail and customer experience. Subsequently, she joined one of the social impact led platform where she helped to pivot their business model and soon became one of the prominent ecosystem system builders in Hong Kong through advocacy, bridging of resources and strategic partnerships.

With strong passion in driving social impact and systemic change, she is a strong advocate in cross-sector collaborations. She holds a BSc Economics degree from the University College London.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

More cross-sector collaborations and partnerships for greater synergy to realize systemic, sustainability goals.

From tackling the takeaway plastics crisis to achieving net zero, Woody works closely with restaurant partners, NGOs, industry leaders and other stakeholders to develop and implement foodpanda Hong Kong’s sustainability strategy. His goal is to help the food delivery and q-commerce sector minimise its environmental impact and transition to a more sustainable business model

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Regulation of takeaway single-use plastics and Municipal Waste Charging Scheme to launch as soon as possible!

Matt Reid is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Steelhead Group which includes Maximal Concepts, KIN Food Halls, Far North Productions, Plastic Conscious and Disruption Labs, with long time business partner, Malcolm Wood. Steelhead Group is a symbiotic group of companies across four primary verticals; hospitality, environmentalism, wellness and content production. Each business draws from the other; all grounded in core areas of passion and disruptive ideas harnessing creativity, innovation, powerful content, branding, strategy and design. Everything is led by the desire to use business to create positive impacts and a triple bottom line mentality.

Helga helps organisations around the globe set powerful sustainability agendas and find the straightest path towards circular models. Through Wealth of Flows Consulting and ADM Capital Foundation, she brings over 20 years of professional experience, accumulated at McKinsey & Company, the European Chemicals Bureau, and others. Helga authored many critically acclaimed reports on the Circular Economy, including with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Get the new HKSAR government set its sights on a more comprehensive, powerful waste management strategy for Hong Kong. Continue to initiate, and make circular economy models more accessible for HK companies.

Anson joined KPMG in Hong Kong in 1999 and is currently a Partner based in the Hong Kong office heading up the Consumer & Retail Practice in the ASPAC region. He is part of the KPMG Global Consumer & Retail Steering Group as well as being a member of the Global Technology Innovation Centre and the Cluster Leader for the Technology, Media & Telecoms Practice based in Hong Kong.

Anson has been active in driving a number of thought leadership reports and executive briefings for senior executives covering innovation and consumers in China and across Asia. He has worked with many corporates to understand the complex markets we live in and current levels of disruption being seen with recent reports including Global Mobile Payments, Consumers & Convergence, Mobilizing Innovation: The Changing Landscape of Disruptive Technologies, The Rise of the Digital Multi-tasker, Be a Smarter Start-up, MNCs in China, Made in China 2025, China’s Connected Consumers, Global Connected Consumers, Connecting Hong Kong – Perspectives on our future as a smart city, Connected Cities – insights across the ASPAC region and The Changing Face of Commerce series.

Today, he not only mentors the next generation of go-to-market professionals at KPMG but continues to work with a growing number of C-level executives as a trusted advisor in providing the best in client innovation whilst acting as the Lead Partner for a number of strategic accounts in both the consumer and technology arena across the Asia Pacific region.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences and events around the globe and has completed his Executive Masters in Technology & Innovation with the Poly University as well as the MIT Executive Leadership & Innovation Program.

Felix Cheung is the founder and CEO of IXON, a Hong Kong startup that specializes in food preservation. He is one of two co-inventors of advanced sous-vide aseptic packaging, a sterilization-cum-packaging technology that enables sous vide food to be stored at room temperature for up to two years. Felix holds a doctorate degree in plasma physics from University of Sydney and a master degree in food analysis and food safety management at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Jessica Lam-Wong is the director of Hop and On Demand Grocery at Deliveroo Hong Kong. Since joining Deliveroo in April 2022, she has been responsible for overseeing the operations of the firm’s first Hop site in Hong Kong, which was launched in July 2022. Hop is a rapid grocery delivery service operated by Deliveroo and is the latest addition to Deliveroo’s business portfolio.

Jessica currently leads a team of over 30 members, including account managers and business development professionals, all working towards a strategic purpose: to offer the best grocery delivery partnership experience to partners, and help them grow their businesses through delivery, while providing consumers with an even more convenient shopping experience with greater choice.

Prior to joining Deliveroo, Jessica co-founded JouSun.com in 2015, a grocery startup that delivers fresh food from hundreds of Hong Kong farms and food specialists to homes. Outside of Hong Kong, Jessica also worked and studied in the US and UK. She was a business strategist at Gucci, analyst at Vision Investment and a management consultant at Capgemini. She graduated from Columbia Business School and Brown University.

Herbert is a Research Manager at Euromonitor International with a focus on consumer and financial industries’ research. He has more than 10 years of experience in the industry. Herbert leads the syndicated research team in the Hong Kong office, overseeing all syndicated research projects for Hong Kong and Taiwan market.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

To see many more corporations incorporating sustainability agenda into their strategies.

Serial social entrepreneur & trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is the founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change through inspiring & empowering original content and one of the world’s leading outlets for alternative protein news. She is also the founder & CEO of Ekowarehouse, the global sourcing platform for certified organic products and the co-founder & CEO of SourceGreenPackaging.com, the world’s first global marketplace for sustainable packaging with a mission to fight single-use plastic waste.

With over a decade of experience in publishing, digital marketing, organic trade, sustainability, alternative proteins and green packaging, she is an eco wellness industry veteran with a keen eye for market trends and a sought-after international speaker and moderator, sharing her expertise on stages across Asia and beyond, including Harvard Business School and two times at TEDx. Further, Sonalie is a global advisor at Social Ventures Hong Kong, an Impact Purpose Organisation committed to re-imagining Hong Kong as a purpose-driven city, an advisor at The Remedy Project, which revolutionises access to justice for migrant workers globally, a cause close to her heart, and she is an avid home cook and published cookbook author.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Grow Green Queen Media, Grow SourceGreenpackaging.com.

Jon Gordon is a strategist with the UBS Chief Investment Office in Hong Kong, covering cross-asset and thematic investment views. Jon, who went plant-based 20 years ago, co-authored the UBS report “The Food Revolution”.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

The city should shift to covid-19 policies that greatly reduce our plastic and medical waste. At the same time, I’d like to see Hong Kongers meaningfully reduce their average daily meat consumption.

Nicole Lee is the Food Technology Program Manager at Brinc – a global venture capital and accelerator firm empowering entrepreneurs to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. In her role, Nicole invests in and supports startups building a more sustainable and equitable food system. In the past three years, Brinc has made 50+ investments in the food tech space encompassing Alternative Proteins, Novel Ingredients, Functional Foods & Nutrition, and Food Supply Chain Optimisation.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Increased awareness and action in solving the environmental challenges presented by our food supply chain.

Ir Dr Zhou, a dedicated sustainability professional, has over 18 years’ experience in corporate sustainability, environmental and carbon management consultancy, new energy and biotechnology in Hong Kong, China and Singapore. Shelley holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the National University of Singapore. Shelley opened a carbon management course in 2010 and currently is the Adjunct Associate Professor at HKUST.

As an industrial engineer, Gabriel started his career as a Quality and Environmental Management Systems auditor in Asia. Being passionate about CSR, he is now responsible for the Global Audit Activities for QIMA, and act as an advisor to global leading brands and retailers in setting up and implementing their ESG and Supply Chain Due Diligence strategies.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

I would like to see changes in ending poverty, developing quality education, continuing to focus on combatting climate change and encouraging sustainable consumption while prioritizing our community’s health and wellbeing.

Oscar KA HUI is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with profound experience of capital markets. Oscar is currently the Head of Strategy, Investment and Financing of SmartMore.

As one of the earliest members of the corporation team, Oscar facilitated significant strategic cooperations and successfully led multiple rounds of financing, making great contributions to the sound and fast development of the company. Besides, he also constructed the core investment framework, and used capital tactics to help the group successfully enter the fields of precision industry, semiconductor and other high-end industries.

Having grown up in Hong Kong, Laura brings a wealth of experience from its vast hospitality landscape and fast-paced food & beverage scene. She has also worked at some of the world’s most iconic hotels from London to Hong Kong.

Aside from managing her own Hong Kong-based boutique consulting firm specialising in Food & Beverage, Hospitality and Retail, Laura has teamed up with her brother Alexis Offe to open Uma Nota Hong Kong, Uma Nota Paris, BEDU and Little BEDU Hong Kong.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Meraki Hospitality’s goals for 2022 have been to make a larger impact when it comes to sourcing sustainably – sourcing locally as much as possible and working with the local community to look at ways to lower the company’s carbon emissions.

Alvin heads Green Monday’s corporate partnership division. With experience as a local green culture and tourism journalist and as a lobbyist for animal welfare organisations, Alvin has always been passionate about biodiversity and environmental education. He is also a permaculture PDC graduate for sustainable living design.

Juliana Lam is the Founder and Chairman of Julius Group Holdings Ltd, an OEM gloves manufacturer. Her manufacturing legacy was deeply influenced since her father’s gloves manufacturing company since 1963. She has over 20 years of manufacturing experience in gloves & accessories industries and had managed over 20 gloves factories in China and South East Asia countries. Julius Group is a forward-thinking company that believes in transforming the conventional gloves manufacturing business with ESG (environment, social and governance) as their core values and has equipped with the most advanced E-TECH double-rail production system hanging on ceiling. Building best efficiency through big data and constant innovations in the industry is her belief in nowadays industrial mind, as well as partnering with top retail brands globally. She is working tirelessly to reinvent and build sustainable business through technologies and innovative solutions. Juliana was the only female award winner among the few Young Industrialist Awards of Hong Kong in 2014 and the first female President of The Association of Hong Kong Gloves Traders Limited.

Juliana is also the Founder and President of UK born retail brand INNOTIER, an innovation-driven company with a mission to develop products that help people live in more sustainable lives with the global top technologies as foundation.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

We believe that a truly innovative approach to technology can have a big impact on the world. It can impact people and the planet and ensure a sustainable future for all. We also believe that we can only do this if we have a truly global mindset.

Alice Liang, Chief Proposition Officer of AIAHK & Macau, leads the Health & Wellness and Wealth Management functions and has overall leadership responsibility for product, ecosystem and planning tools across local and GBA markets.

She has held senior leadership positions focused on Proposition, Wealth and A&H in Asia and UK.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Strengthened public awareness on healthier lifestyle and disease prevention for more people to live healthier, longer, better lives in Hong Kong.

With over 10 years’ experience integrating wellness into the commercial real estate landscape Patrick is currently Head of Real Estate at Pure International. Through this time, he has witnessed dramatic changes to the way health and fitness facilities are delivered and used.

While Covid 19 has presented the biggest challenge ever faced by the fitness industry, it has also accelerated the growth in demand for health and wellbeing.

He believes landlords, occupiers, and service providers must now work alongside to ensure wellness facilities are provided at the scale and nature that the market requires.