Dr. Riccardo Corrado is an Associate Professor at CamEd Business School and a leading voice in the intersection of technology, regulation, and sustainable development. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Italian Business Chamber Cambodia (ItaCham), the Italian chapter within EuroCham Cambodia, and advises multiple organizations including the Federation of Cambodian Students Abroad and AI Farm.

With a multidisciplinary background spanning engineering, education, and business analytics, Dr. Corrado brings a systems-level perspective to digital transformation and regulatory innovation. He has consulted for the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia and the League of International Relations Affairs, and currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Vision Institute.

His academic and advisory work centers on the application of emerging technologies to drive sustainable development, shape telecommunications policy, and accelerate digital transformation across public and private sectors. He is particularly engaged in the evolving dynamics of the space economy and its regulatory implications.

Dr. Corrado holds a Ph.D. in Information Engineering, a bachelor’s in Electronics Engineering, and a master’s in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Trieste, Italy. He also earned a Master’s in Education from the University of Johannesburg and an MBA in Business Analytics from Abertay University Dundee.

Katherine Ke is a leading expert in cross-border financing, asset finance, and aviation law, with over 20 years of experience advising lenders, sponsors, and corporates. Her practice spans syndicated loans, project and structured finance and complex asset finance transactions.

She is particularly recognised for her work in aircraft leasing and financing, representing both PRC and global lessors and financiers in transactions involving commercial aircraft, business jets, portfolio acquisitions, and OEM agreements. Since 2017, Chambers Asia Pacific has consistently named her a Leading Lawyer in Aviation Finance.

Katherine is admitted to practice in England and Wales and the State of New York, and has passed the PRC bar exam. She is fluent in Mandarin and English, and holds degrees from Fudan University and Stanford Law School.

Dr. Pietro Borsano is an Associate Professor at Xi’An Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Entrepreneur College (near Shanghai, China). He specialises in entrepreneurship education, industry-academic partnerships, and venture development across Europe, ASEAN, and China. He is also an advisor to the Global Academy at Siam University, an innovative TNE initiative. 

Previously, he was Deputy Executive Director (equivalent of vice-dean) at Chulalongkorn University’s School of Integrated Innovation (Bangkok, Thailand), where he co-founded the institution, developed global partnerships, and designed its entrepreneurship curriculum. He has led industry projects with Alibaba Group, Banpu Pcl., PTTEP, Huawei, and Business Online Pcl., among others.

Pietro has advised tech startups, VCs, and government innovation programs, serving as a Peer Review Expert for Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Venture Fund and a Venture Fellow at Meet Ventures Singapore. His research focuses on digital transformation and entrepreneurship in family businesses.

With a background in corporate law (University of Turin) and business administration (ESCP Business School), he has taught in multiple universities and co-founded a management consultancy and provided strategic consulting on market expansion and innovation, driving significant growth for industrial clients.

From a summer engineering intern at Pearl Harbor in 1976 to a stint as ICMCI’s ambassador into China, when China opened its doors and invited professional management consulting as an industry in 2002, Gregg has been a bridge builder and a connector.   Fixing wicked problems has been his life and forte.  He’s been an Internal Consultant at American Express, an External Consultant with Coopers (aka PWC), Consulting Principal of the Management Think Tank at the University of Hong Kong, Member of the HKSAR Government Central Policy Unit, the founder of his regional consulting firm in Family Business Governance and lastly headed up the Global Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance Practice at Aon.  Gregg has never turned down any 1,500-plus wicked challenges his clients wanted resolution. What he couldn’t solve alone, he would invite other professionals from ICMCI, IBM, the World Bank, Protiviti, Citibank, and IMC members to join forces.  Educated as a systems engineer and governance architect, Gregg has had over four decades of professional consulting experience helping disparate parties find common grounds for mutual gains, navigate hyper-growth, and install resilient governance architectures.

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Time permitting, he has shared his know-how as an Adjunct and Visiting professor at local and overseas universities, including the inquisitive ones at universities in Beijing, Bombay, Chicago, Clayton, Haidian, Helsinki, Hong hum, Manoa, Palo Alto, Shatin, and Yangpu.  He has enjoyed sharing and researching esoteric subjects like International Corporate Governance, Systems Engineering, Family Business Governance, and Space Entrepreneurship.  He has been proud to claim that scores of his students and mentees are now partners at leading consulting firms, global heads at MNCs and family business empires, and founders of disruptive startups (none is in jail so far).  They have been co-travellers on his journey of discovery, and many are now changing the world for the better.   Many have joined him hitchhiking the galaxy at the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy he founded in Hong Kong, where he is also a voluntary researcher and Ambassador at the Lab for Space Research at HKU.

Gregg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (BA), HKU (MPhil), UCLA (MBA), Hawaii (MA), and Warwick University in the UK (Eng. D); and looking to graduate as a Space Global Mentor before 2030.  As an “Astropreneur” and a Comprador of NewSpace, he is now connecting entrepreneurs, governments, universities, engineers, and venture capitalists to prepare their livelihood for the arrival of the NewSpace and Digital economy.