Supported by the SME and Start-up Committee
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Speakers:
Anthony Hope, Asia-Pacific Head of Strategic Analysis, HSBC’s Financial Intelligence Unit
Phil Aldridge, COO, FunctionEight Ltd
Russell Bennett, Employment Law Solicitor, Tanner De Witt
Will Probert, Co-Founder, Zzzzip.com
As an SME owner in Hong Kong ensuring the success of your business is always a challenge, a situation which is even harder given the current climate. Are you experiencing clients paying you later than expected, vendors requesting faster payment, businesses delaying projects, or any other situation which puts more pressure on your business?
If you are a business owner in Hong Kong and would like to learn what other companies are doing to get through this difficult period then join us for a Q&A Session with various business professionals with over 100 years of combined experience. At this event we will cover topics around:
• Getting paid quicker and paying slower
• Remote working
• Flexibility with employees
• Landlord negotiations
• Asking the bank for help
We encourage you to come prepared with some questions so that we can use the combined experience of the panel, and the other attendees, to get a sense of what problems businesses are experiencing and how we can help to solve them.
Details on how to join this webinar will be sent via email 2 hours before the webinar start time.
About the speakers
Anthony is Asia-Pacific Head of Strategic Analysis for HSBC’s Financial Intelligence Unit. He is also a Director at MatrixVision, a virtual currency compliance company. Prior to arriving in Hong Kong, Anthony served for seven years with the UK Government and held various positions with both HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs, including leading the European Finance and EU Budget 2014-2020 Negotiations Teams. He has extensive legislative, policy and project management expertise, having taken the UK’s Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc. Bill 2010 through the UK Parliament and helped to re-write the UK’s policy on residence and domicile taxation. Anthony holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.
Phil is COO of FunctionEight Ltd. Headquartered in Hong Kong and with regional offices in Singapore and New Zealand, FunctionEight provides IT Managed Services and private cloud computing solutions to SME's and Regional Offices of MNC's across the APAC region. As COO Phil heads up the product, marketing and sales functions, as well as providing technical oversight. Phil has been in Hong Kong since 1991 and having worked in various firms in positions of Regional IT manager or similar he joined FunctionEight in 2006.
Russell specialises in all matters relating to employment law as well as dealing with dispute resolution, commercial litigation and regulatory advice.
On the employment side Russell has extensive experience in acting for both employers and employees with particular emphasis on high-value employment disputes in the financial sector. He advises on all aspects of employment law, termination entitlements, post-termination restrictions, bonuses, discrimination, drafting employment contracts, handbooks and other HR related documentation as well as immigration, health and safety and related criminal matters/prosecutions.
Russell also spent several years as regional in house counsel with a major international brokerage. He focused primarily on dealing with the restructuring of their employment practices, documentation and structures and resolving disputes and issues throughout Asia Pacific. In addition Russell oversaw the legal aspects of HR management and certain regulatory functions.
William is a Co-Founder of Zzzzip.com and provides holistic advice to corporate groups and entrepreneurs on all aspects of business establishment and market entry from ownership, corporate structure, immigration, and employment to financial and operational issues. An entrepreneur himself, his approach is pragmatic and always mindful of minimising risk.
Pricing
- Member: Free of charge
- Non-Member: HK$140
Terms & Conditions
- Reservations in advance are required. Please consider your booking confirmed unless notified otherwise.
- Cancellations must be made in writing 24 hours prior to the event. No shows will be charged.
- This event is closed to the media.
- The event will be cancelled if the No.8 Typhoon signal or the Black Rain Storm warning is in force.
- By attending this event, you agree to be photographed, recorded, and/or filmed and give permission to use your likeness in promotional and/or marketing materials.
- For further information please email [email protected]
- All payments for this event need to be settled by credit card through PayPal. Please note you do not need a PayPal account to complete payment.