Candidate Profile Candidate Profile VIJAY HARILELA

Consultant

Harilela Hotels Limited (Alternate Director), Ashoka Investments Limited (Consultant), Cheung & Choy (Part-time Consultant)

Professional Experience:

Mr. Vijay Harilela is a qualified Solicitor in Hong Kong, England and Wales. He is currently a Consultant and Alternate Director at Harilela Hotels Limited/Ashoka Investments Limited, a part of the Harilela Family Group of companies. He advises and consults on investment opportunities and strategies and is general legal counsel on corporate matters. Prior to this, he was a Solicitor at Victor Chu & Co (Solicitors) specialising in corporate and commercial and employment laws.

He completed his Masters in Business Administration from University of Bradford.

Voluntary Contribution to Hong Kong:

Member of the Executive Committee of The India Association Hong Kong and spends time working on ethnic minority issues, primarily focusing on assisting families with integrating into the wider society of Hong Kong.

Honorary Vice Consul of the Maldives in Hong Kong, representing the Maldives government in Hong Kong, and actively promoting goodwill, trade and tourism between the Maldives and Hong Kong.

Quote from Spencer Stuart Hong Kong:

Vijay is a qualified solicitor who now spends his time managing his father’s business. Vijay was born in Hong Kong, speaks fluent Cantonese and cares about equality for Hong Kong’s ethnic minorities. What is most impressive about Vijay is that in his own way he uses his sphere of influence to improve the plight of Hong Kong’s minorities.

Alok Jain

Deputy Operations Director

The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd.

Professional Experience:

Mr. Alok Jain is the Deputy Operations Director of The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd (“KMB”). Prior to joining KMB in 2013, Mr. Jain worked as a director of MVA Asia Ltd. and Trans-consult Asia Ltd. and led the design and planning of a number of large-scale transport infrastructure projects in the Middle East and South Asia. Prior to that, Mr. Jain worked for MTR Corporation / KCR Corporation, Hong Kong for 12 years holding various senior positions.

Ethnicity:

Gender: Male

No. of years in Hong Kong: 21

Cantonese Speaking:

Cantonese Understanding:

Mr. Jain played an active role in a number of other business organisations. With several publications to his credit, including a contribution to a book on best practices in railways operations and management, he is a regular speaker at conferences and universities.

Mr. Jain is a Civil Engineer with postgraduate qualification in Transportation Engineering and further education in Business Management.

Voluntary Contribution to Hong Kong:

• 2015 – Present: Member, Advisory Committee, Business Environment Council.

• 2015 – Present: Member, The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) Foundation.

• 2008 – Present: Member, Transport Policy Committee, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport.

• 2004 – 2008: Member, Finance and Commerce Sub-Committee, Metro Division of International Association of Public Transport (UITP) (www.uitp.com).

• Involved in mentoring students for Hong Kong Council of Social Services and University students for IoT Designathon (an IT design competition organised by HKUST).

• Mr. Jain is an active theatre artist and has acted / directed / produced in many theatre productions in English and Cantonese. He currently produces a community radio show for RTHK’s CIBS program,“CULTURAL DIMSUM 文化點心”

Quote from Spencer Stuart Hong Kong:

Alok is a civil engineer who has spent most of his career working with Hong Kong’s leading transport companies, almost always as the sole ethnic minority. Alok believes that ethnic minorities should make an effort to integrate into the majority Chinese population and is dedicated to do so. Outside of his day job, Alok produces a radio show called Cultural Dimsum for RTHK.

Ethnicity:

Gender: Male

No. of years in Hong Kong: 22

Cantonese Speaking: NIL

Cantonese Understanding: NIL