Business Practices for Sports & Sustainability: Building Resilient, Innovative, and People-Centered Initiatives

Jessica Ng
Founder, The Jessica Company

Executive Vice-Chair and Chief Executive Officer
South China Financial Holdings Limited

Non-executive director
South China Holdings Company Limited
i-CABLE Communications Limited

Jessica has over 20 years of leadership experience in the media and financial service sector. As Executive Vice Chair of South China Financial Holdings, she leads the financial services business of South China Group.

Jessica launched her namesake magazine JESSICA in 2000 which soon became the highest circulation women’s magazine in Hong Kong, with the aim of inspiring women to pursue their life dreams. Later she established the JESNetwork, a community founded on the JESSICA Most Successful Women Award, with the mission of connecting, inspiring and empowering women, to create a collaborative space for women in entrepreneurship, sustainability, technology and sport. For over two decades, JESSICA has been a beacon of empowerment for women in Hong Kong and beyond, and to further her mission and vision, ensuring that the impact remains authentic and powerful, The JESSICA Company was established as a standalone corporate entity in 2024.

The Jessica Charitable Foundation was formed in 2012 as a charitable institution under s.88 of the Inland Revenues Ordinance, with the aim of supporting social initiatives empowering women and youths. The annual JESSICA Run is the foundation’s signature fundraiser and family and amateur runners’ event, to arouse awareness on physical and mental health, to raise funds for non-profit organisations in Hong Kong.

Jessica sits on various women and youth support associations, including the position of Board Member and Treasurer of the The International Women’s Forum Hong Kong Chapter, and Ambassador of the Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong.

She holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from King’s College London, University of London in the United Kingdom and was admitted to the Hong Kong Bar in 2006. She is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a member of the Standing Committee of the 13th Hebei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. She also previously served as a member of the 11th, 12th and 13th Tianjin Municipality Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.

Prof. Howard Ling is the Chief Consultant of Impact Incubator, and the Professor of Practice at Baptist University. Howard began his social entrepreneurial journey in 2004. He has consulted over 100 social enterprises and raised over HKD 300M for these enterprises. He also serves as a consultant or advisor to many foundations, and education institutions in Hong Kong and Macau. He was awarded the Medal of Honour (MH) by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), and the Hong Kong Humanity Award in 2017 for his dedicated public and community services, particularly his contributions to the development of social enterprises.

Hong Kong SAR Government Committee & Macau SAR Government Committee:
Administrative Appeal Board – Panel Member (2015 to Present)
Betting and Lotteries Commission Committee Member (2019 to Present)
Transport Tribunals’ Panel – Panel Member (2019 to Present)
Social Enterprise Advisory Committee Member (2009 to 2015)
Ping Wo Fund Advisory Committee Member (2013 to 2019)
Strategic Development of IT in Education Steering Committee Member (2022 to Present)
Social Welfare Bureau (Macau SAR) – Consultant of Social Enterprise Scheme

Education, NGO & Social Enterprise Responsibilities:
Community Chest – Admissions, Budgets & Allocations Committee Member
YMCA Hostel Services Committee – Board Member
Hong Kong Education City (HKEdCity) – Director of the Board
Bishop Hall Jubilee Secondary School – Director of the School Board
Kowloon Tong Primary School & Secondary School – Director of the School Board
Lok Sin Tong – Yeung Chung Ming Primary School – Director of the School Board
Direction Association for the Handicapped – Honorary Consultant
Mbaby Doula Social Enterprise – Director and Social Enterprise Consultant
Joint Publishing Cultural Charity Fund – Director of the Board
The Yeh Family Philanthropy – Grant Committee Member
Changing Young Lives Foundation – Council Member
Baptist University – Associate Director of The Centre of Entrepreneurship
Lingnan University – Chairman of the Advisory Board for Doctor of Policy Studies
& Programme Advisor of Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative
The Chinese University of Hong Kong – Consultant of Sustainable Knowledge Transfer Fund

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

1. To increase the awareness of commercial and residential recyclable collection service
2. To issue a legal-binding guideline on charity formation and charitable fund-raising