Lesley Li Vice President London & Partners Shenzhen Office London & Partners is the official promotional organization for London attracting and delivering value to business, students and tourism. As the VP of South China, Lesley is responsible for supporting companies from South China (including Hong Kong and Macao) to expand in London. Since 2011, the China team of London and Partners has successfully helped about more than 350 Chinese companies to set up in London. | |
Alpesh Patel Dealmaker, Global Entrepreneur Programme Department for International Trade Alpesh Patel is a top professional trader and financial analyst in the UK. He is the founder of a FCA regulated asset management firm managing millions of dollars in investments. Alpesh’s media profile and business, political and economic expertise has been utilised by the UK Government for more than a decade from London to New Delhi and Beijing, accompanying the PM and Ministers, business leaders on trade missions, as well as by the largest and most respected global businesses as an advocate, utilising his training as a barrister, for growth strategies and business-friendly policies for wealth creation, diversity whilst engaging legislators and policy-makers. | |
Yen Tan Regional Director Northern Ireland Trade and Investment Yen Tan is Regional Director, Trade & Investment (Hong Kong, Macau and South China), Invest Northern Ireland at the British Consulate-General in Hong Kong. She is responsible for developing market strategy and partnerships to secure trade and investment in the region. Her focus is to connect businesses and investors between Northern Ireland and Asia Pacific and help venture capital grow their portfolio companies and start-ups to become scale ups. Prior to joining the public sector, Yen was Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Investment Banking Division in Sydney, Australia. | |
Andy Weng South China and Hong Kong Manager UK Visa and Immigration Andy joined UKVI, British Embassy Beijing in 2013. He has taken up a business development role in the Business and Growth team of UKVI. In January 2017, Andy was posted to the British Consulate-General Guangzhou as UKVI’s contact person for South China and HongKong area. Before joining UKVI, Andy worked for a marketing consultancy - AC Nielsen’s Beijing Office. And prior to that, Andy worked as an Energy Analyst in Mighty River Power in New Zealand.
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Ivan Yip Head of New Economy Department for International Trade Ivan’s role at DIT is to support HK companies to expand into the UK and in the past 8 years, he has assisted over 70 companies of different stages to setup in the UK, from tech startups to unicorns, as well as businesses such as luxury hotel and restaurants, design and architects, financial institutes and high tech manufacturers. Ivan’s current focuses are on fintech, AI, IoT and anything about high growth technology sectors. | |