Social Impact Measurement – Where Business Economic and Social Impact Coincides

Leading private and social enterprises for over 25 years in multilateral, culturally diverse environments, Virginia is passionate about bringing to life measurable impact and creating new value in our society.

Virginia has a demonstrated track record of securing strategic partnerships between corporations, governments, and non-profits to deliver on social impact projects. She started her career in telecommunications, building satellites, and the distribution of free-to-air television across 60 countries in Asia.

Virginia focuses on education, believing that investing in people is the key driver for impactful change. Bringing together diversity and crossing cultural divides is a pathway to create Shared Value in our world, aligning purpose with profit.

After serving on the board of several educational institutions including ESF and the VTC, Virginia is now a member of the Board of Directors of the Adecco Group Foundation in Switzerland a social innovation lab, incubating and accelerating new solutions in the world of work.

Johnny joined the ICTI Ethical Toy Program as the General Manager of Asia Operations in February 2017. Promoted to the Chief Operating Officer in 2022, he is responsible for overseeing the operations of the organization globally.

Before joining the Ethical Toy Program, Johnny worked at Decolav, a US-based design house of high-quality furniture and bathroom products, where he was the Managing Director of Asia Operations. Prior to this, he was the Senior Sourcing Manager at Lowe’s Global Sourcing Hong Kong Ltd. Johnny started his career working for Johnson Electric for five years managing the production for Home Appliances products. He brings a wealth of leadership and operational management experience to the Ethical Toy Program team, gained from his 22 years working in the international manufacturing industry .

He received a Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Victoria in Canada and a Master of Science in Engineering Management at the City University of Hong Kong.

Garrick specialises in driving organisational change that creates business value alongside positive impact through the Creating Shared Value (CSV) strategy.

His 20+ years of experience and expertise cover real estate and hospitality asset management, organisational development, corporate sustainability, impact measurement and management, social intrapreneurship, NGO management, charitable fundraising, and grant management.

In his current role with a leading private conglomerate in Hong Kong, Garrick leads efforts to embed sustainability and shared value principles across the group’s operations and value chain through a Sustainability-as-a-Service approach. A core responsibility of his team is to implement new solutions that support commercial tenants in achieving their sustainability goals through green and social leases, to continuously enhancing the company’s competitiveness. In addition, his team oversees voluntary reporting related to decarbonisation and climate, nature, governance, and green financing.

For the wider industries, he advocates for the implementation of impact measurement, through thought leadership and consultancy engagement, to enable the continuous improvement of the effectiveness of corporate impact funding with transparency and accountability. These efforts extend beyond the local market and have received unprecedented recognition from global platforms, including the Shared Value Award and Social Value Award.

In addition to his professional role, Garrick serves on a voluntary basis as Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on Graduate Employment at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Vice President of CareER (a charity supporting employability for students with special needs), and a Board Member of Junior Achievement Hong Kong (a charity promoting youth employability).

Vincent joined Hartley McMaster as CEO & Director (APAC) to steer and shape the application of Operational Research (Applied Mathematics) for the firm’s APAC clients. A significant part of his passion in this role is in helping executives embrace the creative use of mathematical models to find optimal solutions to highly complex problems involving multiple moving parts from across their value chains.

Vincent’s involvement with ESG is tied closely to his work with clients to optimize their investment planning and resource allocation strategies, particularly for regulated utilities and other asset-intensive industries. This includes the optimization of USD$20 Billion in infrastructure investment plans across the UK gas network and the quantitatively-derived regulatory justification for a pilot conversion of existing gas pipelines for hydrogen use.

My Sustainability Goals for 2023:

I hope to see Hong Kong companies go beyond ESG reporting and start to incorporate ESG measurements into their investment planning approaches.