Accelerating the Transition: Implementing Circular Supply Chains from Design to End-of-Life

Nelson Chow stands at the forefront of business transformation in Asia as both the President of the Institute for Supply Management – Hong Kong Branch (ISM-HK) and the leading Partner at Argon & Co. With over twenty years of experience, his expertise spans operational excellence, margin enhancement, supply chain risk management, sustainability and digital transformation across both multinational and local organizations. He has served 50+ clients worldwide and managed 100+ strategic projects across sectors including Automotive, FMCG, Food & Beverages, Luxury & Fashion, Private Equity, Retail & E-commerce, Power & Utilities, Life Sciences, Transport & Logistic, Trading and Industrial.

Nelson is passionate about nurturing the next generation of business and digital talents, highlighted by his roles as a Professor of Practice at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an Advisor at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Nelson is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Business School Lausanne. He has enriched his academic credentials with Executive programs from prestigious institutions including The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Stanford, and Cambridge.

A sought-after speaker, Nelson recently spoke and moderated the 8th SSCL China Convention and Exhibition, Asian Logistics, Maritime and Aviation Conference 2024 (ALMAC), ESG Xchange 2024, Suzhou American Chamber Manufacturing Conference, 2nd Annual ASEAN Procurement Innovation Summit, Digital Procurement Transformation 2024, Luxury Symposium 2024 and more. He, representing ISM-HK, will be co-organizing the Supply Chain, Procurement and Logistics Theatre with ReThink HK 2025.

As Colgate-Palmolive’s Packaging Sustainability Innovation Manager for APAC, Tze leads the development, deployment, and advocacy of Packaging & Plastics Sustainability programs to advance Colgate’s key packaging sustainability goals within APAC. She is also responsible for building external engagement networks for packaging sustainability with NGOs, Government Agencies, Recycling Value Chain and Infrastructure, Packaging Suppliers, and other organizations.

Prior to joining Colgate- Palmolive, Tze was a Circular Packaging Manager at Danone. She was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and monitoring projects and partnerships contributing to Danone brands’ sustainability and circularity targets. In addition, Tze was a consultant at the World Bank, where she provided advisory on projects related to the circular economy, private sector competitiveness, and plastic value chain analysis.

Tze is an advocate for a zero-waste lifestyle and volunteers as a speaker for Zero Waste Malaysia. Tze graduated with a Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and BSc in Economics from London School of Economics.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

1. Build systems that better embed sustainability into our core business and innovation processes
2. Contribute to shaping a competitive and resilient 2030 plastic and packaging sustainability roadmap
3. Advocate for collaboration both internally and externally to drive change at systems level

Benjamin ZB Yue joined CEM in 1999. He has been involved in different areas of power system operation and management for more than 30 years. He currently serves as Principal Advisor to the Executive Committee.

Mr. Benjamin Yue holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Power System and Automation from Shandong University. He also earned a Master degree of Business Administration from University of Saint Joseph, as well as a Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Macau. In addition, he is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers USA, and has been actively participated in the management of the Macau Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for many years.

Ir Dannie Yung
Strategic Doing, Systems Thinking, Circular & Regeneration

Dannie is interested in both science and art. She paints in ink brushes, largely from observations of the Nature with her heart’s impressions. She was one of the early engineers in thriving economic times of Hong Kong and the World. Her work takes her to different countries, regions, and work with different cultures embracing the academic, corporate and consulting realms in North America, Japan, South-East Asia, Hong Kong and China.

Dannie Yung has life-long experience and passion leading, entangling and coaching business leaders, functional heads, interdisciplinary change teams, taskforce groups to achieve success, deliver results, solve problems, …sustain gains and take on new strategic initiatives.

She believes in integrative holistic approach. A Y=f(x’s) approach. Hard and soft skills interplay in pursuit of operations excellence, strategic development, sustainable procurement and supply chain, business excellence, customer delight.

Her recent focus includes the art of negotiation, transforming future leadership; strategic doing, systems thinking, circularity and regeneration for a better common home planet Earth.

Dannie is a member of the ISO20400.org Steering Committee. The Chinese contributor of the sustainable supply chain self-assessment. She transition to wider boundary focus in learning and entanglement with

The Common Earth Insights 2024 (MIT Systems Design and Dynamics), Frijof Capra Systems View of Life 2023, Design for Environment (MIT Design Thinking and Product Innovation 2017) Collaborator at AreYouClimateReady?

Operations Excellence – GE Master Black Belt, global, regional and local clients in design, financial, service, IT, manufacturing, utility sectors, excellence of individual, team and organizations.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

Coaching younger upcoming engineers and other professionals for integrative entanglement transforming supply chains to value regenerative eco-systems cradle to cradle through : –

1. Paradigm Transform
2. Performance Specification
3. KISS, Keep It Simple and Strong