UBS Disruptive Technology CEO Summit 2026

Amy Lo is Chairman, Global Wealth Management Asia, Co-Head of Wealth Management Asia Pacific, Head and Chief Executive of UBS Hong Kong, and a Managing Director at UBS. Amy has over 30 years of experience in the banking industry. Since joining UBS in 1995, she has held a number of senior management positions including Regional Head of Ultra High Net Worth and Global Family Office in Asia. Today, the ultra-high net worth business is the leading wealth manager for ultra-high net worth individuals in the region.

Actively involved in the development of the private banking industry in Hong Kong, Amy chairs the Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Private Wealth Management Association (PWMA), and is a Board Member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) and the Hong Kong Academy for Wealth Legacy. She is also a member of the Banking Industry Training Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Education Bureau and an advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation. She was previously a member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee – the Financial Infrastructure Sub-Committee of Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

A passionate supporter of youth education and technological innovation in Greater China, Amy is a member of The Court and the MBA Advisory Board at The University of Hong Kong, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Department of Social Work at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also a Board Member of the UBS Optimus Foundation, the independent grant-making foundation that helps UBS clients improve the education and welfare of children globally.

In recognition of her contribution to the wealth management industry, Amy was named CEO of the Year at the inaugural Citywire Asia Private Banking Awards 2025, as well as Private Banker of the Year in the Asian Private Banker Awards for Distinction 2020 and 2023. She was also recognised as one of the Fortune Most powerful Women Asia in 2026. Previously, she received the Executive Award at the DHL/SCMP Business Awards 2018 for her efforts in building UBS as a corporate citizen in Hong Kong. She was also named by a top-tier Chinese media, China Business News, as one of the "Hong Kong Top 20 in the next 20 years" for her contribution to innovation developments in 2017.

Sergio P. Ermotti has been Group CEO of UBS Group AG and President of the Executive Board of UBS AG since 2023. He was also the Group CEO from 2011 to 2020. He re-joined UBS from Swiss Re, where he was Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2023. Prior to joining UBS in 2011, he was at UniCredit Group, where from 2007 to 2010 he served as Group Deputy CEO and Head of Corporate & Investment Banking and Private Banking, prior to which he served as Head of the Markets & Investment Banking Division. Before that, he held various positions at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the areas of equity derivatives and capital markets. He became Co-Head of Global Equity Markets and a member of the Executive Management Committee for Global Markets & Investment Banking in 2001.

Iqbal Khan became President Global Wealth Management in 2022 and assumed the additional role of President UBS Asia Pacific on 1 September 2024. Previously, he was President UBS Europe, Middle East and Africa from 2021 to 2023. From 2019 until September 2022, he was Co-President Global Wealth Management.

Prior to joining UBS in 2019, Iqbal was at Credit Suisse where he held senior leadership positions as CFO Private Banking & Wealth Management and later CEO International Wealth Management. From 2001 to 2013, Iqbal held numerous leadership positions at Ernst & Young, where he was one of the youngest partners of the firm’s Swiss arm.

Iqbal holds an Advanced Master of International Business Law degree (LLM) from the University of Zurich. In addition, he is a Certified International Investment Analyst, a Swiss Certified Public Accountant, a Swiss Certified Trustee, a Member of the Board of the UBS Optimus Foundation and a Member of the Board of Trustees of Lucerne Festival.  

Joe Tsai is a Co-founder and Chairman of Alibaba Group, a global technology company focused on AI and cloud computing for enterprises and the retail economy serving over 800 million consumers in China. He is a member of the boards of directors of Alibaba Group and its fintech affiliate Ant Group.

Tsai owns several professional sports teams, including the NBA Brooklyn Nets and the 2024 WNBA Champions New York Liberty, and is an investor in the NFL Miami Dolphins and the Miami Formula One Grand Prix. He is a major contributor to the sport of lacrosse as owner of the San Diego Seals and Las Vegas Desert Dogs in the National Lacrosse League, lead investor in the Premier Lacrosse League, and supporter of the sport’s international governing body World Lacrosse.

Tsai is a member of Asia Business Council, J.P. Morgan International Council, EXOR Partners Council, BDT & MSD Partners Advisory Board, and International Advisory Council of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining Alibaba Group in 1999, Tsai was a private equity investor in Asia for Investor AB of Sweden’s Wallenberg family. He practiced tax law as an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. He is a graduate of The Lawrenceville School (’82), Yale College (B.A. ’86) and Yale Law School (J.D. ’90). 

Jason is a Managing Director at UBS and has various cross-divisional responsibilities in Investment Banking and Wealth Management. He is currently Head of Unified Global Banking and Global Head of the Critical Materials Group.  Jason joined UBS in 2015 from Citi where he had been Head of Metals and Mining EMEA since 2011. Prior to Citi, he was at Lehman and Nomura where he was a Managing Director, Head of Natural Resources M&A. Originally from Australia he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in Brisbane, Australia. Since 1998 he's worked investment banking in London and New York.

Claire leads Strategic Business Development in Global Wealth Management and the Client Office in APAC, developing and executing strategies to drive OneUBS growth across the franchise. She works closely with key family offices and entrepreneurs in the region to ensure comprehensive coverage.
 
Before joining UBS, Claire led Credit Suisse’s Strategic Advisory and Private Assets Group in North Asia, originating corporate finance transactions, syndicating private equity and private credit in Wealth Management, and building OneBank strategies globally.
 
Claire began her career at Goldman Sachs, spending a decade in the Investment Banking Division across Equity Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Group. She executed four of the ten largest IPOs in Hong Kong’s capital markets history, including a number of award-winning transactions.
 
Claire holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from Columbia University, where she was a Global Scholar. She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Co-Chair of its Hong Kong chapter. A graduate of Li Po Chun United World College, Claire also actively contributes to the United World College movement globally.

Ross Centers is the CEO and Co-founder of Ethos Space, a Y Combinator-backed company laying the industrial foundation for computing beyond Earth. AI's hardest limits are power and cooling. Space offers billions of times more headroom than Earth, but tapping it requires a correspondingly large supply chain. Ethos is building lunar factories that turn silica- and aluminum-rich regolith into solar panels to power data centers and the broader space economy. Ross holds an MS in Space Resources from the Colorado School of Mines and previously founded the Planetary Sunshade Institute.

Richard Frey is CEO of Inait, the Swiss deep-tech company building brains for machines. Inait's fast-learning physical AI leverages digital brains and enables robots to master hands-on industrial tasks previously beyond the reach of automation, in under 24 hours and with near-perfect reliability. It is already delivering results on the factory floor. Together with Microsoft, its go-to-market partner, Inait is bringing this new class of robotic intelligence to industry at scale.

With more than 25 years of global leadership experience, Richard has led multidisciplinary teams where science, technology and commerce meet. He has held senior roles at multinationals and technology innovators, turning breakthrough technologies into commercial impact at scale.

Richard studied at the University of Zurich and the London School of Economics, and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He is an active investor in technology start-ups and serves on select boards. Outside of business, he is focused on his family, longevity and contemporary art.

Koji Fusa is CEO of GVE Ltd. GVE was founded in 1997 and builds quantum-secure payment, settlement and identity infrastructure for central banks and governments, protected by foundational patents running to December 2041. In March 2025 the Nikkei reported GVE as Japan's first decacorn. On 11 September 2026, Nikkei CNBC reported GVE having established patents in 65 countries including 6 of the G7 countries, is in a strong position to dominate the Sector 2 and 3 of the end-to-end cyber security going-forward. That program explains for the first time, how GVE Provisioned Trust Infrastructure might help banks to be protected from rogue AIs in addition to quantum computing.
Koji directed DLJdirectSFG (now Rakuten Securities) from one year from inception in 2000 to Japan’s second largest online broker in 2003 as CSFB’s only resident director in Japan. Koji also controlled Emcom (acquired from Livedoor) in 2005 which quickly became the world’s largest independent forex technology company within one year until 2008 when he sold the company.
In 1997 Koji led investment banking at SBC Warburg - now UBS - to the number one revenue ranking in Japan among foreign investment banks, across M&A and equity underwriting (Thomson Reuters). He sat on the Executive Committee of Ecma-International in 2021 and is special strategic adviser to the Paediatrics Department at the University of Oxford. He was previously a Professor at Cyber Security Innovation Centre of Aston University of the UK. GVE's founders took part in drafting ISO/IEC 24643, the international standard published in 2020 on which GVE's post-quantum architecture is built.

Fengtao Han holds a Bachelor’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) and a Master’s degree from Zhejiang University. Following his first entrepreneurial venture in 2015, he returned to HUST to pursue his Ph.D. under the mentorship of Academician Han Ding, a leading expert in robotics. Bridging deep academic rigor with rich practical experience, he holds multiple invention patents and has served as a core researcher on key national R&D projects.
 
In 2024, he embarked on his next entrepreneurial journey by founding Spirit AI, fully dedicating his efforts to the field of Embodied AI. Leveraging state-of-the-art motion control algorithms and proven expertise in industrial-scale robot production, Han is leading his team to drive technological breakthroughs and reshape the industrial landscape of robotics.

Robin Han, Co-founder and CEO of sudo, which is a leading robotics foundation model company with self built hardwares. Robin was a serial entrepreneur.

Prior to founding Video Rebirth, Dr. Kong held senior investment leadership roles at G42 and Lunate Capital in Abu Dhabi, focusing on artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and strategic investments.

Dr. Kong began his career in AI research at Microsoft Research and NEC Laboratories America. With over 20 years of experience spanning AI research, technology entrepreneurship, and global investments, he brings a unique perspective on building and scaling transformative technology businesses

Dr. Chris Lai, Chairman of the Board and CEO of METiS Techbio, earned his Ph.D. from the Novartis-MIT Center and previously founded AquaFresco, an award-winning water-tech company.

On May 13, 2026, METiS (7666.HK) successfully listed on HK exchange as the world’s first listed company in AI-powered drug delivery.

He also served as a strategic consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising top pharmaceutical clients. Dr. Lai integrates his technical and strategic background to lead our AI platform development and corporate growth.

Nisa Leung is founding Managing Partner at Aulis Capital. She served as Managing Partner at Qiming Venture Partners, where she founded and led the firm's healthcare practice since 2006.

Nisa has been consistently recognized as one of the most influential investors in the industry. She has been featured on the Forbes Midas List for seven consecutive years (2019–2025). In 2024, she was honored as one of Fortune Asia’s Most Powerful Women (MPW Asia).

She has invested in and served as a board director for numerous leading healthcare and life sciences companies, including Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB; HKSE:9688), Gan & Lee (SSE:603087), Cansino Biologics (SSE:688185; HKSE:6185), Insilico Medicine (HKSE:3696), SinoCellTech (SSE:688520), Sino Biological (SZSE:301047), Schrödinger (NASDAQ:SDGR) , Structure Therapeutics (NASDAQ:GPCR), Berry Genomics (SZSE:000710), CITIC Pharma (acquired by Shanghai Pharmaceutical HKSE: 2607), Apollomics (NASDAQ:APLM), Crown Bioscience (acquired by JSR Life Sciences), Caidya, Belief BioMed, Alamar Biosciences (NASDAQ: ALMR), EpiBiologics, Aeira, Pluslife, Horizone, SinoUnited Health, Aeonmed, Novast, Nurotron, Origene Technologies (acquired by VCAN Bio SSE:600645), MedX, Goodwill (SSE:688246), Jacobio (HKSE:1167), Sesame Therapeutics, Hope Medicine, Chain Medical Labs, Sinotau, Zencore Biologics, Cognitact, Silicon Gene, Vision Pro, Thorough Future among many other groundbreaking companies in the life sciences and healthcare sectors globally.

Prior to joining Qiming, she was co-founder of Biomedic Holdings with operations and investments in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and health care services including Novamed Pharmaceuticals (acquired by SciClone NASDAQ:SCLN) and U-Systems (acquired by GE Healthcare). Nisa was Venture Partner of PacRim Ventures in Menlo Park and was previously with Softbank/Mobius Venture Capital.

Nisa earned her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS from Cornell University. She is visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School, a trustee of the Hotchkiss School, serves as a member of the Hong Kong University Court and Stanford University International Advisory Council.

Dr Mark Lim is the co-founder and CEO of Aliena Pte Ltd, a Singapore based space technology company that develops and manufactures complete Hall effect propulsion systems at its Advanced Jet Propulsion Test and Production Facility (AJPTPF). Aliena’s three product classes, MUSIC, MESSE and MFE, are built to meet the most demanding needs of spacecraft from small to large, and from very low Earth orbit to deep space missions.
Dr Lim is a plasma physicist and materials scientist by training. His doctoral work focused on the fabrication of advanced nanomaterials for optoelectronic devices using plasma sources. In academia, he went on to apply plasmas to air treatment, water treatment, waste vitrification and plasma medicine, and contributed strategy work for nuclear fusion, before turning to space propulsion. He was also involved in establishing accelerator programmes at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), to translate fundamental research into commercially viable products. Over the course of his career, he has commissioned a total of three space propulsion facilities.
Alongside his work at Aliena, Dr Lim is an independent technical advisor and consultant, assessing emerging technologies in the fields of advanced energy and space. He has advised government linked companies, corporates, state investment firms and management consultants, bringing hands on experience in developing and commercialising deep technology to their evaluation of technical risk, maturity and opportunity. 
Dr Lim is the Chairman of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (Singapore Chapter) and an adjunct research scientist at NTU, where he received his undergraduate and PhD education. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics Singapore and was named an Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review (APAC) in 2021. He also serves as Chairman of a School Advisory Committee with the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

Albert Liu is the founder and CEO of Kneron, a leading edge AI company specializing in full-stack AI solutions for edge devices. Under his leadership, Kneron has pioneered cutting-edge neural processing unit (NPU) technologies, enabling AI computation at the edge and revolutionizing industries such as automotive, IoT, and smart cities. With a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, Albert has held key R&D and management roles at Qualcomm and Samsung Electronics R&D Center. In 2015, he founded Kneron to democratize AI, making it more efficient, secure, and accessible. Albert holds 30+ international patents and has published 70+ papers. His work on reconfigurable architectures for CNN accelerators earned him the IEEE Darlington Award in 2022. Driven by a vision to bring real-time AI processing to edge devices, Albert continues to push the boundaries of AI, empowering industries and communities worldwide as a key player in the AI revolution.

Liu Minsheng, PhD, Research Professor; Chief Technology Officer, ENN Group; former President of ENN Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd.

He has long been dedicated to R&D in nuclear fusion, coal-based low-carbon energy, and other disruptive technologies.

In 2019, he completed the construction and operation of China’s first medium-sized compact fusion device; its current value and efficiency under non-inductive current drive reached internationally advanced levels.

In 2022, he formulated the roadmap for spherical-torus hydrogen-boron fusion. In 2023, he completed the “Xuanlong-50U” spherical-torus hydrogen-boron fusion device. He led the team to achieve high-temperature, high-density, mega-ampere plasma current discharges, with plasma temperatures exceeding 100 million °C, achieving the highest parameters among international spherical-torus fusion devices and making it the first fusion company worldwide to achieve a hydrogen-boron fusion reaction.

He has led six national projects, including National 863 Program and National Key Technology R&D Program (Support Program) projects, and holds more than 100 granted patents.  

Jason Panyang is Co-founder and President of SynapX. He brings 20 years of entrepreneurial and strategic leadership experience across artificial intelligence, automotive and physical AI.Prior to SynapX, Jason joined Horizon Robotics in 2017 as CFO and VP of Strategy. Horizon is a leading intelligent driving (ADAS) technology company listed in Hong Kong, with a market capitalization of over HK$150 billion. At Horizon, he built the corporate finance function from scratch and led multiple funding rounds totaling over US$3 billion, helping take the company from early-stage startup to IPO. He also led several strategic business initiatives, building a global team of over 300 engineers from the ground up.

Prior to joining Horizon Robotics, he had a successful career spanning several of the world’s top-tier financial institutions including Morgan Stanley (Hong Kong), Goldman Sachs (London) and General Electric (Paris) where he oversaw over $100 billion of M&A and capital market transactions.

Jason holds a Master’s degree from ESSEC Business School in Paris and a Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University, and completed MBA coursework at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Henning Rath is Chief Executive Officer of EnerVenue Holdings Ltd, the company commercialising the Aqueous Metal Cell, a water-based battery built on nickel-hydrogen chemistry for long-duration, grid-scale storage. Appointed in March 2026, he holds a mandate to take EnerVenue from advanced technology developer to high-volume industrial manufacturer. An engineer and economist who has spent most of his career in Asia, he built power stations, cement works and steel plants before scaling Enpal's supply chain from Shenzhen. He argues that storage is infrastructure, not a consumable asset, judged on endurance, safety and lifecycle economics over decades rather than headline cost alone. Henning Rath is named to the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader Class of 2026.

Dr. Shen Yichen received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 2016. In 2017, as the first author and corresponding author, he published a cover article in Nature Photonics, where he first proposed the theory of using light to implement deep learning, pioneering the entirely new field of optical computing.

Building on this scientific breakthrough, Dr. Shen founded Lightelligence in 2017, with a mission to transform cutting-edge technologies into real world solutions, and to continuously provide global customers with efficient computing solutions through photonic technology, driving the upgrade and innovation of computing infrastructure in the AI era.

For his outstanding achievements in original innovation in disruptive technologies, as well as in the industrialization and ecosystem development of AI optical computing, Dr. Shen has received honors including MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35,” the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leader,” and the 2026 China AI Person of the Year.

In April 2026, he led Lightelligence to list on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming the world’s first publicly listed AI silicon photonics chip company.

Yu Tian graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and entered the electric aviation industry in 1999. With more than 27 years of experience in the aviation industry, he has focused on developing electric aircraft that are safe, efficient and sustainable.

Tian holds FAA licenses for both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters and has been granted more than 1,000 aviation-related patents.

In 2017, he founded AutoFlight with a focus on innovative electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, with a vision to transform air mobility and advance the development of the low-altitude economy.

Under his leadership, AutoFlight developed V2000CG, the world’s first ton-class eVTOL aircraft to China’s three civil airworthiness certificates and a Validated Type Certificate (VTC) in Indonesia. AutoFlight’s passenger eVTOL, the V2000EM, is now advancing through the final stage of its airworthiness certification process.

Jithendra is a recognised expert in Spoken language technologies, with over two decades of experience in Automatic Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech, and Natural language understanding. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and held research and industry roles at IDIAP (EPFL), Philips Research, and Samsung R&D, where he established a Speech Technology team whose work shipped in Samsung flagship products, including ASR for Global English in Bixby.

Currently, Jithendra is the CTO and co-founder of Observe.AI, the Agentic CX Platform that uses purpose-built AI agents to resolve interactions and improve customer experience outcomes for 350+ global enterprises. Over 8 years, he has built a 200+ person R&D team developing an orchestrated, multi-agent ecosystem of AI agents for customers, frontline teams, and operations that autonomously executes work across the full CX lifecycle.

Jithendra has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and filed 10+ patent applications. He is a Senior member of IEEE and a reviewer for various IEEE, ACL/EMNLP, and Interspeech conferences.

Dr. Steve Xie is the Founder and CEO of Lightwheel. He holds a B.S. in Physics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Finance from Columbia University. Prior to founding Lightwheel, he led autonomous driving simulation at NVIDIA and Cruise.

Dr. Xie was selected as a National-Level Leading Talent in China and is a pioneer in simulation technologies for Physical AI. He is the creator of SimFoundry, Lightwheel’s full-stack simulation platform, and a named inventor on 22 granted patents, with more than 100 additional patent applications pending. His core vision for Lightwheel is continuous learning: integrating large-scale egocentric human data, simulation, evaluation, and real-world deployment feedback into a unified infrastructure loop for Physical AI.

Dr. Xie serves on the Technical Steering Committee of Newton, the open-source, GPU-accelerated physics engine for Physical AI, alongside technical leaders from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Disney Research, and Toyota Research Institute.

George Yan is the founder and CEO of Clobotics, a global trailblazer in intelligent Physical AI solutions for the wind power and retail industries. Headquartered in Singapore, Clobotics has global offices in Seattle (USA), Shanghai (China), Esbjerg (Denmark), and São Paulo (Brazil). George also serves as a visionary leader spearheading the company’s fusion of hardware, software, and Physical AI—machines that see, decide, and act in the real world—powered by Gen AI speed and Physical AI precision to reinvent labor-intensive wind energy, retail operations and other traditional industries through autonomous inspection, repair, and real-time intelligence.
Prior to founding Clobotics, George served as Vice President & General Manager of Marketing and Operations (M&O) at Microsoft Greater China, where he orchestrated double-digit growth anchored by robust product strategies, marketing brilliance, and operational excellence. His legacy includes navigating Microsoft’s groundbreaking foray into China’s Cloud business, reshaping the industry’s landscape. Before Microsoft, he began his career at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company in the USA.
George holds a BS in Computer Engineering from University of Minnesota and MS in Financial Engineering from Columbia University.

Ph.D. and Senior Professor-level Engineer. He is a recipient of the New Era Youth Pioneer, a 2025 Forbes China Technology & Innovation honoree, a Visiting Scholar at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, and one of the 100 participants at the Falling Walls Lab Global Finale in Germany. He previously served as a Senior Engineer at Microflown Technologies in the Netherlands. In 2017, he founded ORCAUBOAT with the vision of becoming a global leader in maritime embodied intelligence.

Dr. Zhu has received numerous national and international honors, including UNEP’s Young Champions of the Earth of Asia and the Pacific Region, the Special Entrepreneurship Award of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Fortune China U40 Most Promising Business Leaders, Hurun Under 35 Elite, 36Kr X·36 Under 36, Forbes Asia/China 30 Under 30, Hurun Under 30, and China Business Network 30 Under 30 Young Entrepreneurs, among others. 

Solita Marcelli is Global Head of Investment Management for UBS Global Wealth Management. In this capacity, she leads an organization dedicated to delivering world-class investment solutions tailored to client needs across the Americas, APAC, EMEA, and Switzerland. Solita oversees the full suite of discretionary, advisory, and investment fund offerings globally—which account for over USD 2 trillion in client assets.

Previously, Solita served as Chief Investment Officer Americas for UBS Global Wealth Management, where most recently she led both the CIO Research and Investment Solutions businesses in the region. Prior to UBS, Solita was the Global Head of Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities (FICC) for Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan.

Solita is widely recognized as a thought leader in the industry and is featured frequently in the financial media. She has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential women in US finance by Barron’s and one of the 25 most powerful women in finance by American Banker. Outside of UBS, she currently serves on the Board of the UJA Federation of New York and was the 2022 recipient of UJA’s Alan C. Greenberg Leadership Award. She is a fellow of the 2018 Class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Solita holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a BA in Economics and History from Brandeis University.  

Rafael Ratzel is Managing Partner at TH Capital. He has been an integral part of the firm based in Beijing since 2016, spearheading the firm's international business. His strategic leadership resulted in the successful establishment of the firm’s inaugural USD Fund in 2023, which gives international investors unique access to growth investment opportunities in China's deep-tech ecosystem. The international team at TH Capital also supports portfolio companies in introducing innovative Chinese technologies to a global customer base.

Originally from Germany, Rafael has lived in the US and the Netherlands, before relocating to China in 2008, where he is still based. He holds dual degrees in Engineering (Industrial and Systems Engineering) and Business Administration from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has also acquired MBA degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, USA .

His strategic insight and China expertise are also recognized in his role as a board member of the German family office and industrial holding group AEQUITA. 

Jonathan Tam is an investor at Horizons Ventures, a multi-stage deep-tech investment firm based out of Hong Kong. At Horizons, Jon leads the investment efforts in the areas of artificial intelligence, next-gen computing technologies, and interactive entertainment. Some of the companies Jon has invested and work with include Q-CTRL, DayOne Data Centers, Kneron, Alif Semiconductor, General Intuition, Medal.tv, Cortical Labs, Callosum, and others.

Jon began his career as an equities salestrader at Goldman Sachs Hong Kong, then spent time as a business development executive at Nanoleaf, a venture-backed IoT start up before joining Horizons. Jon graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship.

Esther Wong is the Founder and CEO of 3C AGI Partners, a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm focused on AI infrastructure, including semiconductors, energy systems, computing infrastructure and space-based data centers. The firm is a member of the NVIDIA Global VC Alliance.
Previously, Esther was an early team member and Head of Strategic Investment at SenseTime, where she built the investment and capital markets teams and raised more than US$6 billion. Before joining SenseTime, she spent two decades in capital markets at Cazenove (now part of J.P. Morgan), CICC, Barclays and BOCOM International.
Her investment approach draws on three areas of experience: building a startup from 0 to 1; working in a technically complex AI business long before the sector attracted widespread investor attention and understanding the expectations of institutional investors and capital markets.
Esther holds an Executive MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and serves on the board of Junior Achievement Hong Kong.