Alan is the Chief Executive Officer of Sustainvest Technology Limited, as well as the Group CEO of Climate Finance Asia (previously known as Carbon Care Asia), an Asian sustainable finance consultancy established in 2008 with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan.

He has been leading global and regional sustainability & ESG strategic marketing functions in various global companies including S&P Global, ERM, Lloyd’s Register & Bayer for around 2 decades, from strategic planning to successful implementation, contributing to the growth of the business. In his role with S&P Global as Regional ESG Marketing Director: Asia, Pacific, Middle East & Africa, Alan has led the company to win 3 Best ESG Awards, namely ESG Disclosure & Regulatory Reporting Solution, Best ESG Data & Analytics Solution, ESG Initiative of the Year, which are the company’s 1st ever awards in the region. In his global campaign “Are you ready for TCFD?”, which generated over 20 times ROI.  During 2011 -2012, Alan relocated to Shanghai to manage Bayer’s sustainability investment (~US$100M), eco-commercial plants in China.

Alan is the co-founder of a social enterprise, Yum Cha Together (得閒去飲茶), with the mission to inherit care and love to the communities through yum cha dim sum culture and events. He has a strong passion to serve local communities and has been nominated the Spirit of Hong Kong Award 2020.

In addition, Alan is a weekend farmer and starting up another social venture called Aromafunapy (香FUN喜園), aims to bring essential elements of nature to foster human sustainable wellbeing, and also provides resources to companies and financial institutions to fulfill their ESG and nature strategy.

For over 15 years, Alan has nourished the young generation by devoting his time to help promote social enterprise education and development. He is a judge, trainer, and mentor for various social entrepreneur programs in Hong Kong, and a guest speaker invited by various universities to share insights on social innovation, ESG, and sustainability.  He is also on the vetting panel of The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund) of HKSAR Government.

Alan holds a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and is a Chartered Marketer from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK). He is also a certified clinical Aromatherapist.