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Mr Paul Tai is the Regional Director - Far East of Mainetti Group, a leading global retail solutions provider.  Paul is also the founder of M-Care – a new vertical launched during the pandemic in 2020 for healthy and sustainable lifestyle consumer goods in the PPE market (Personal Protective Equipment).

At Mainetti, he played and still maintains an important role in various major expansion and acquisition projects. He has managed to grow the company from a start-up to a regional company with more than ten operations in Korea, Shanghai, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Australia and Japan.

As his service to the community, Paul is leading and sponsoring various corporate and private social responsibility projects in Asia. With Paul’s leadership, Mainetti has completed two school rebuilding projects in the Mainland and contributed to causes benefiting underprivileged children in Mainland China and the Far East region. 

Paul is a chartered accountant in the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore.  He has an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  Paul received the Young Industrialist Award of Hong Kong from the Federation of Hong Kong Industries in 2012 and was elected as the President of the Council of 2021/22.

Janice is currently working as a strategy analyst at HelloFresh UK in London, a global leader in meal-kit service. She has earned her MSc degree in Urban Agriculture and Green Cities at UniLaSalle in France in 2022 and BSc in Environmental Management and Technology from HKUST in 2019. With experience in the entrepreneurial and corporate scene in the environmental industry in Hong Kong, France and UK, she has led diverse projects regarding food system, sustainability, data analytics and innovative technology. On the side, she is currently building a seamless platform for high-end chefs to source from local farmers to cultivate a local food system. Her ultimate goal is to build cultural and eco-villages in rural areas in China with commercial linkages to urban areas.