Contributors

David Cox and Lucas Niedolistek

David Cox and Lucas Niedolistek are Lawyers at DLA Piper, Hong Kong.

David Hui

David Hui is a Partner in Heidrick & Struggles based in Hong Kong. He has over 20 years of experience in executive search and consulting globally. He specializes in senior-level assignments relating to executives in public and private companies and family-owned businesses.

Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, David was the Founding Partner of a regional boutique search and consulting firm. From 2005-2008, David served as the Head of the Financial Services Practice for Asia Pacific at Korn/Ferry International, leading a team of more than 40 consultants. Prior to this, he spent six years as Head of Asia for Whitehead Mann, UK’s largest listed Executive Search firm.

David holds an LLB (joint honors) degree in law and Chinese studies from the University of Leeds, and an LLM from the University of London. He also holds an MBA from the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program in Hong Kong. David is qualified to practice as an attorney in England and Wales, as well as in Hong Kong.

DAVID IRECKI 

David Irecki is the Director of Solutions Consulting, APJ, at Boomi, a category-leading, global software as a service (SaaS) company with the largest customer base among integration platform vendors. He leads a team of pre-sales professionals across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Under his leadership, his team helps customers transform their businesses by solving integration and data management challenges.
  
David is an IT veteran with over 20 years of experience in the enterprise integration and embedded computing markets. David joined Boomi in June 2015 as the first Solutions Consultant in APJ. He was soon promoted to Director to manage the presales team and has been instrumental in Boomi achieving its market growth across the region. 

Prior to Boomi, David worked for MuleSoft, where he led the APJ solutions consulting team. He has previously held stints at EuroTech as Technical Sales Engineer and 4RF Communications as Software Design Engineer.

David is a graduate of New Zealand’s Massey University, majoring in Information Engineering.

David Knights

David Knights is the General Manager, Hong Kong of Friends Provident International Limited (FPI) and has been assigned with overall management responsibility for FPI’s business in Hong Kong. He has held this position since January 2008 and prior to this, he was the Regional Sales Director and Business Development Manager. David has worked at FPI for over 18 years and has over 20 years of experience working in the financial services industry.

David Lazar

David Lazar is founder of Metatron Software HK.

Dean Stallard

Dean Stallard is the Regional Director of Hays in Hong Kong. He has 10 years' experience in executive recruitment and is currently responsible for the day-to-day management and growth of the business in Hong Kong.

Debra Meiburg

A 25-year Hong Kong resident, Debra Meiburg is a Master of Wine, award-winning author and speaker. Her business Meiburg Wine Media reaches over 60 million Chinese viewers monthly through taxi videos, print publications and a television show called Taste the Wine. Debra founded the first truly Asian wine competition, the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition, as well as the Greater China Wine Trade Guide Series. In 2012, the drinks business named her the 7th Most Powerful Woman in Wine.

Denise Facura

Denise Facura has been doing public relations services for more than 6 years across Asia for various industries such as Travel, Hospitality & Lifestyle. She now runs a boutique public relations company based in Hong Kong, Medium.Asia Ltd.

Derek Maggs

Derek Maggs  is VP for Services Industries at SAP Asia-Pacific and Japan. With 27 years of experience in the media, travel, transportation and logistics industries, Mr. Maggs is a highly-respected authority in the space. He has worked in markets like Malaysia, Singapore and Australia since 1996.

Derek Yiu

Derek Yiu holds the position of General Manager at Fujitsu Hong Kong and is responsible for accelerating market expansion and advancing revenue, profit and client satisfaction in Hong Kong and Macau.