KStJ OMRI FCCA FCSI(Hon) FBCS; Chairman, Z/Yen Group; President, London Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Professor Michael Mainelli, MStJ PhD MPhil BA FCCA FCSI(Hon) FBCS FRSA CITP FIC CMC MEI, is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin. He gained his PhD at the London School of Economics, where he was also Visiting Professor of Innovation & IT. Originally a research scientist in aerospace (rocket science) and computing (architecture & cartography), after directing mapping projects in Switzerland, he became a senior partner with accountants BDO Binder Hamlyn directing global consulting, and Corporate Development Director for Europe’s largest R&D firm, then the Ministry of Defence’s 14,000 strong Defence Evaluation & Research Agency. During a mergers & acquisitions spell in merchant banking with Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, he founded Z/Yen in 1994, the City of London’s leading think-tank, promoting societal advance through better finance and technology, renowned for its Global Financial, Green Finance, and Smart Centres indices.

Michael’s career summary is a decade of technology research, a decade in finance, and then three decades at Z/Yen, combining research and finance for social purposes. Career highlights include:

• developing a £100M+ business within the UK Ministry of Defence operating as grade 3/military 2-star equivalent commercialising defence technology;

• growing a global accountancy consultancy, BDO Consulting, profitably to 100+ people with finance, technology, government, professional services, and NGO clients, several international privatisations;

• conceiving, creating, and directing the first complete digital map of the world project, Mundocart (a 1980’s Google Earth), and the $20M Geodat consortium cartography project;

• investment and start-up successes, e.g. built Sirius Minerals plc to £1bn valuation, floating US$160M medical imagery firm, numerous tech start-ups, several large privatisations and fund turnarounds.

Michael is Chairman of Z/Yen Group; Emeritus Professor of Commerce and Honorary Life Fellow of Gresham College; Senior Independent Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service and AIM-listed Wishbone Gold plc; City & Guilds Council Member; Trustee of Morden College; Fellow of Goodenough College; Visiting Professor at UCL’s Bartlett School. Awards include a UK Foresight Challenge Award for the Financial Laboratory; UK Smart Award for prediction software; Technology Strategy Board Challenge Award for financial avatars; British Computer Society Director of the Year; Gentiluomo of the Associazione Cavalieri di San Silvestro; Consigliere del Senato Accademico of L’Accademia Tiberina; ‘Hons’ award from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment; Member of the Order of St John; Honorary Fellow of King’s College London; Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple.

He is an Alderman of the City of London, Director of the Lord Mayor’s Show, Sheriff of the City of London 2019-2021, and Lord Mayor 2023-2024, with charity interests in the environment, education, and care. Michael is Past Master of the World Traders, Craft-Owning Freeman of the Watermen & Lightermen, Honorary Liveryman of the Worshipful Companies of Furniture Makers, Water Conservators, Marketors, Tax Advisers, International Bankers, Management Consultants, Security Professionals, Engineers, Architects, Makers of Playing Cards, and Scientific Instrument Makers, Honorary Freeman of the Educators and Chartered Secretaries & Administrators, and member of the City Livery Club and Guild of Freemen.

Chief Excellence Officer & Founder of LAM Institute

Perry Lam is the former Executive Chairman of the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy (OASA), where he is dedicated to equipping youth for leadership roles in the rapidly evolving NewSpace economy. With a passion for future-forward education, Perry champions initiatives that empower the next generation of space entrepreneurs and innovators.

He is also the Founder of the LAM Institute, short for Leadership & Advanced Management, based in Hong Kong. Through this platform, Perry collaborates with senior leaders from Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and NGOs to elevate leadership capabilities and strategic thinking. His work spans continents, with active engagements across Asia, Europe, and North America, supporting talent development and organisational growth in industries such as financial services, legal, technology, healthcare, and family offices.

Earlier in his career, Perry held leadership roles at Xerox Corporation and DHL Worldwide Express, including serving as Regional Director of Sales in Asia. At DHL, he pioneered the “Centre of Excellence and Leadership Center,” establishing a coaching and training curriculum that became a global benchmark for internal leadership development.

Having lived and worked in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and the United States, Perry brings a rich cross-cultural perspective to his work. Beyond his professional endeavours, he actively supports NGOs, including International Care Ministries (ICM), Asia Charity Services, and the ASEAN Inclusive Business Awards Conference. He also serves as a curator and international speaker coach for TEDx Hong Kong and as a certified facilitator of the 2030 SDGs Game, promoting the Sustainable Development Goals through experiential learning.

Coach to NewSpace; Convenor of International Council, OASA

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.

Founding Chair of Hong Kong Federation of Insurers

Born 28.04 1934 Wimbledon, UK.  - Resident Hong Kong since 1973

Business Career principally in Insurance and Fund Management

Educated Aldenham School UK. – ACII (Associate Chartered Insurance Institute)

1952-54 – National Service – Commissioned, Royal Artillery served in Germany

1954-73 – Royal Exchange Assurance (latterly Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance) - various Management roles in India (11 Years) and Australia (8 years) - latterly Assistant General Manager Australia

1973-1988 – Jardine Matheson- (Assistant Director) – headed Insurance Division and latterly President and CEO of Lombard Group Inc, a Life and General Insurance Joint Venture between Jardines and The Continental Insurance Corporation, USA

1989-1992 – Thornton Management (Asia) ltd (now part Allianz) – Managing Director, latterly Chairman

1992-1995 – Consultant Director Employers Federation

1984-2025 – Founding Member and latterly Consultant, The Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong – BPF

Director, 3rd Party Capital, Peak Re

Mr. Iain Reynolds is the Head of Third Party Capital of Peak Re. He has more than 20 years’ of experience in catastrophe modelling, catastrophic risk analysis and transfer, and oversees Peak Re’s pricing and risk accumulation for all lines of business across all territories. Prior to joining Peak Re, Mr. Reynolds was Head of Catastrophe Modelling at Guy Carpenter Singapore from 2012 to 2016. He also worked as Head of Catastrophe Modelling at Guy Carpenter Munich from 2004 to 2012.

Director of Lab for Space Research; Founder and CEO of Feilong AEROSPACE and Technology Ltd.

Prof. Quentin A Parker, PhD, BSc (hons), FRAS, FASA

Prof. Parker, PhD, University of St. Andrews, 1986, joined the University of Hong Kong in 2015 as Head of  Physics. In 2017, he became Associate Dean (Global) of the Faculty of Science and Director of the Laboratory for Space Research (see https://www.lsr.hku.hk/).

Prior he worked at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh (1986-1992), Anglo-Australian observatory (1992-1999), University of Edinburgh (1999-2002) and then with the AAO and Macquarie University (2002-2015) where he developed and was director of the MQ research centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics growing it from 2 staff when he arrived to 50 when he left. Research activities are mainly with Wide Field Astronomy (including as PI of the UKST H-alpha survey), redshift surveys, Galactic Archaeology and especially Planetary Nebulae (PNe), where he has discovered more than anyone in history. He also has extensive experience as an instrumentalist with multi-object fibre-optic spectrographs and narrow-band filters.

He has published  599 papers and articles, of which ~300 are refereed, and has more than 24,000 citations with a h-index of 71. He has supervised and co-supervised about 30 PhD, MSc/MPhil and honours students to successful completion and is always keen to attract students. Quentin also has a long-term interest in Chinese Bronze artifacts and cultural heritage, interdisciplinary studies and science pedagogy and is a regular opinion contributor to the South China Morning Post and China Daily.