Hong Kong as a Two-Way Sustainability Gateway: Connecting GBA Innovation with Global Markets

Ms Sindy Wong is Head of Consumer and Hospitality at Invest Hong Kong, the government department responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment into Hong Kong and beyond.

She joined Invest Hong Kong in 2004 and was promoted to Head of Tourism and Hospitality in 2015, and now serves as Head of Consumer and Hospitality. Her team assists companies from consumer brands, food services, food and beverage trading, foodtech, travel, MICE, wellness and beauty industries globally to establish themselves in her home city of Hong Kong. Prior to joining Invest Hong Kong, Ms Wong’s career experience spanned advertising and corporate communication, tourism, entertainment and banking industries .

Ms Wong holds a bachelor’s degree in arts from The University of Hong Kong and is a Certified Financial Planner. She speaks fluent English, Mandarin and Cantonese. She is an animal lover and enjoys introducing new dining and beauty concepts to Hong Kong which is not only her passion for life but mission for Hong Kong!

Recent InvestHK clients includes Budweiser, Chagee, Edrington, Five Guys, foodpanda, Green Tea Restaurant Group, Informa Markets, Keeta, Kiztopia, Klook Travel, Luckin Coffee, Matsuya, POPMART, QB House etc. (as of Feb 2026)

Claudia Ng brings nearly 20 years of cross-border executive expertise across Hong Kong-listed state-owned new energy groups and multinational technology corporations. She currently serves as Board Secretary, President of Hong Kong Office, and Sustainability Committee Member at Shandong Hi-Speed New Energy Group (1250.HK), leading corporate governance, investor relations, cross-border compliance, and group-wide ESG strategic deployment. Under her strategic ESG leadership, the Group built its foundational sustainability architecture from the ground up, successfully achieving historic inclusion in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) Yearbook (China Edition). Leveraging extensive cross-border governance experience, including a decade in MNC strategy and operations, she seamlessly combines commercial execution with board-level ESG governance to accelerate sustainable finance and the net-zero transition.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

1. Board Accountability. Embed robust ESC governance and climate-riskmetrics into core board-level decision-making for cross-border listed companies.
2. Practical Decarbonisation: Drive actionable, technology-backed decarbonization execution across new energy
   project portfolios.
3. Ecosystem Building: Advance unified cross-market ESG disclosure standards and stakeholder engagement toreinforce Hong Kong’s position as Asia’s sustainable finance and climate action hub.

Leo holds a Master’s degree in Logistics Engineering and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Economics from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, with a strong background combining engineering and business.

Since 2021, he has led the overseas aftermarket at CATL, building a global service network from scratch. During the pandemic, he successfully established eight regional warehouses, four repair centers, and three training hubs, covering 95 overseas sites. He also established strategic partnerships with Bosch, ZF, and other global players, earning CATL’s “President’s Award.”

Now, Leo serves as CATL Choco-Swap HK’s Executive Director and General Manager. He drives the global expansion of the “Choco-Swap” battery swapping ecosystem, focusing on building a standardized international battery swapping ecosystem via strategic global partnerships.

Feroz Sheikh is the Chief Information and Digital Officer at Syngenta Group, a global leader in agricultural innovation. Based in Basel, Switzerland, he drives the company’s IT and digital strategy, spearheading transformative initiatives to enhance food security, sustainability, and productivity in agriculture.

Feroz has been instrumental in advancing the company’s digital transformation, notably through the development of Cropwise, a digital platform connecting over 180 million acres of farmland worldwide. His leadership extends to Syngenta’s AI initiatives, which empower farmers with data-driven solutions.

Prior to joining Syngenta in 2018, Feroz was an accomplished entrepreneur, having founded and led multiple technology-driven ventures, securing venture capital funding and achieving successful mergers and acquisitions. He also contributed to philanthropic efforts, leveraging digital technologies to make education accessible to children in India.

As a passionate advocate for agricultural data standards, Feroz serves as Chairperson of the Board at AgGateway, a global non-profit consortium of over 200 companies driving digital connectivity in agriculture.

Feroz holds a bachelor’s degree from Delhi College of Engineering and completed the executive management program at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. His passion for innovation, rooted in early achievements like building a superconductor and a robotic arm in high school, continues to shape his vision for a sustainable agricultural future.

Naomi Zhang is the Co-Founder and CEO of RelyEZ Energy Storage Technology, a global battery energy storage system (BESS) technology and solutions provider committed to accelerating the transition toward a cleaner, more resilient and intelligent energy system.

Under Naomi’s leadership, RelyEZ has expanded its presence across major international energy markets, with projects and operations spanning Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa. The company integrates energy storage technology, system design and delivery, digital energy management and lifecycle services, supporting utilities, developers and energy investors in deploying increasingly complex large-scale energy storage infrastructure.

Naomi brings a multidisciplinary background spanning renewable energy, investment banking and international business. Prior to founding RelyEZ, she worked in the renewable energy sector at DuPont and subsequently held senior positions in investment banking. This combination of industrial and financial experience has shaped her approach to the energy transition: clean-energy technologies must not only be technically innovative, but also bankable, scalable and commercially sustainable.

She is particularly focused on the convergence of energy storage, artificial intelligence and global energy markets, and on how digitalisation and advanced algorithms can transform energy storage from physical infrastructure into an intelligent, actively managed energy asset.

Based in the Greater Bay Area and working extensively across international markets, Naomi is also an advocate for Hong Kong’s role as a bridge connecting China’s green technology innovation with global capital, talent and markets.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

In 2026, my sustainability goal is to help accelerate the transition from simply deploying renewable energy to building intelligent, flexible and investable energy systems.

Through RelyEZ, I am focused on three priorities: expanding large-scale energy storage deployment across global markets; using AI and digital technologies to improve the efficiency, flexibility and economic value of energy assets; and developing commercially sustainable business models that can attract long-term institutional capital into the energy transition.

Beyond our own business growth, I hope to contribute to a stronger global ecosystem connecting green technology, responsible capital and international collaboration. In particular, I believe Hong Kong can play an important role in connecting China’s rapidly evolving clean-energy technologies with global investors, talent and markets.

Ultimately, our goal is not simply to deliver more battery capacity, but to enable a more resilient, efficient and sustainable global energy system.