The Future is Now

James Riley was appointed Group Chief Executive of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group in April 2016, and is based in Hong Kong. He has been with the Jardine Matheson Group, of which Mandarin Oriental is a part, since 1993.

During his career with Jardine Matheson, James served as Finance Director of Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Jardine Pacific and as Managing Director of Jardine Pacific before being appointed Jardine Matheson's Group Finance Director in 2005. Prior to joining Jardine Matheson, James qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in London and then spent seven years as an investment banker with Kleinwort Benson.

From 2012 to 2016, James was a non-executive Director of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and Chairman of its Audit Committee. He is also the Chairman of The Royal Geographical Society in Hong Kong.

Jennifer Zhu Scott is the Executive Chairman of The Commons Project, a nonprofit public trust established to build global digital infrastructure as public good. Prior, she was the founder of Radian Partners, focusing on direct investment in Artificial Intelligence and deep tech.

Jennifer was Forbes Word’s Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018. She is a China Fellow of the Aspen Institute and has a dual Fellowship at The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) under the Asia Pacific Program and the Digital Society Initiative. She is a Council Member at the Data Policy Council of the World Economic Forum, where she served for the China Council and the Future of Blockchain Council. WEF named Jennifer as a Young Global Leader in 2013. She is a Board Trustee of Web Science Trust founded by Tim Berners-Lee. Jennifer studied Applied Mathematics at Sichuan University and holds an MBA in Finance with Manchester Business School, where she earned distinction with her research on PE/VC in China and was awarded as a Distinguished Alumni. She completed the public policy and leadership program at Yale University in 2013, Harvard Kennedy School in 2016, and Oxford University in 2017. In 2018, she joins Princeton University’s inaugural executive education program focused on energy sustainability and leadership.

Jennifer is a frequent public speaker and published writer on AI, data ownership, and China’s digital monetary strategies. Her TED Talk on data ownership has close to 3 million views. In 2017, she debated against the notion of Universal Basic Income at Oxford Union. At Davos in 2018, she debated against Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Shiller and Swedish Central Bank Deputy Governor Cecilia Skingsley on Crypto Assets. She is the lead author or co-author of numerous White Papers by the World Economic Forum and a Senior Technical Consultant to Season 5 and 6 of the HBO show Silicon Valley.

Enrico Mattoli has worked for UBS for in excess of 20 years, starting in the graduate program in London before working in London, New York, Milan and most recently in Hong Kong where he is Head Direct Investment Group Asia Pacific.

Between 2016 and 2020, Mattoli was Head of the Global Family Office, Greater China with responsibility for providing clients with a full range of WM/IB/AM services encompassing both their family and business needs. During his tenure, Asian Private Banker named UBS Wealth Management Best Bank for Family Office Services for three years in a row.

Between 2009 and 2015, Mattoli was Asia Pacific Head for Investment Products and Services for the UHNW segment where, levering on the integrated bank platform, his team provided client solutions across asset classes. In this role he worked closely with client advisors to provide UHNW clients with access to the institutional-type products and services available from UBS's investment banking and asset management businesses.

Mattoli came to Asia in 2005 as Head of Active Advisory, Asia, a specialist team providing customised non-discretionary portfolio management services and advice on strategic and tactical asset allocation.

In Milan, he was responsible for the Investment Consulting Business Development for Italian domestic clients. In New York he was front-line investment advisor in Active Advisory

Mattoli holds an LLB from Kings College London, University of London, an MBA from Ivey Business School at Western University, Canada and a Masters in Real Estate from University College of Estate Management.