Mr. Dennis WU, Pak-Kit

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

 

He has been re-designated as an executive Director and appointed as the Vice Chairman of the Board with effect from 1 July 2020. He was appointed as our non-executive Director on 16 November 2015 and has been providing advice on strategic development of the Group. Mr. Wu helped to create a greater synergy between the Group’s existing business segments, including green finance, ESG advisory as well as Smart & Green IoT, so as to further expand our Group’s customer base and extend our customers’ geographical coverage to the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Wu is also the Founder and CEO of AEC Capital Limited focusing on sustainable finance, real estate and investment management.

 

Mr. Wu has 20 years of experience in finance industry. He worked as an accounting supervisor at Techno Group, a company engaging in manufacturing of plastic moulds for home appliances, in Hong Kong from April 1998 to June 2000. From September 2000, he worked as a staff accountant at the Assurance and Business Advisory Services Department of Arthur Andersen (which was acquired by PricewaterhouseCoopers since July 2002) and he left the firm as a senior associate in April 2003. He was the executive director in the finance department of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited, a company focusing on alternative asset management including private equity, real estate, mezzanine venture capital and marketable securities from April 2003. During the period of 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2020, he was appointed as the executive director in the principle investment department of the same company.

 

Proactively advocating sustainability and carbon neutrality, Mr. Wu is the Founding President of the Greater Bay Area Carbon Neutrality Association. He is also a director of Hong Kong Private Equity Finance Association which aims to promote the private equity and venture capital industry in Hong Kong.

 

Mr. Wu has served in the Panel of Film Censorship Advisers, appointed by Film Censorship Authority (FCA) under the Film Censorship Ordinance (FCO) (Cap. 392). He is also the HKSTP Incubation Program Panel Assessor.

 

Mr. Wu graduated from the University of Southern California in the United States with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, majoring in Finance, in December 1996. He obtained a master degree of Accountancy from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2001. Mr. Wu received a certificate on training from China Green Building Council in March 2015. He completed courses in Sustainable Finance at Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership in 2020, the GRI Professional Certification Program, and Digital Transformation at Imperial College Business School in 2021, acquiring knowledge of sustainability and digital transformation.