Meet the Team

Meet the Team

The leadership team at Baker Tilly Hong Kong can call upon a wealth of experience across a broad spectrum of industries. We continuously emphasise innovation and excellence in client service. Andrew Ross leads the executive team responsible for strategy, development and running of the firm.

Andrew D. Ross

Managing Director
Cynthia Lo

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance
Danny Choi

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance
Doman Wong

Executive Director, Head of Risk Advisory, CGPL
Edmond Chan

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance
Jerry Gao

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance
Joseph Lam

Executive Director, Regional Tax
Matthew Tong

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance
Steven Kwan

Executive Director, Tax
Adele Yim

Director, Risk Advisory, CGPL
Anntice Lai

Director, Technical & Regulatory
Janet Tsang

Director, Audit and Assurance
May Ng

Director, Human Resources & Corporate Affairs
Ryan Swann

Director, Audit and Assurance

image description

Andrew D. Ross

Managing Director

Andrew Ross is the managing director of the firm and manages a portfolio of local and international audit clients.

Being the partner in charge of major transnational clients, Andrew has extensive experience in the management and coordination of cross border assignments.

For 10 years’ he has acted as independent non-executive director and Chairman of the audit committee of Global Tech (Holdings) Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and principally engaged in the mobile telephone market.

Andrew sits on the Asia Pacific Regional Board of Baker Tilly International which is focused upon the expansion and development of the Baker Tilly brand in the region.

andrewross@bakertilly.hk

image description

Cynthia Lo

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance

Cynthia joined Baker Tilly Hong Kong in 1991 as audit trainee and was promoted to partner level in 2005.

She is now the Executive Director in charge of our audit and assurance division, who is responsible for the strategic development and growth of the division. She is also heavily involved in international joint assignments with the network member firms.

In her time with the firm, Cynthia has built up extensive experience in auditing, tax and financial advisory services. She has undertaken many due diligence reviews of organisations in China. Cynthia has particular experience in providing assistance to China-based entities seeking funding or public listings outside China. In addition Cynthia has extensive experience in the audit of local listed and major private companies, including clients from trading, manufacturing, shipping, servicing companies and NGOs.

cynthialo@bakertilly.hk

image description

Danny Choi

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance

Danny has extensive experience in A, B and H share, and IPO audits together with the audits of PRC state-owned enterprises and multinational clients investing in Mainland China.

Danny has nearly 20 years’ experience in audit assurance and financial due diligence reviews from Big Four and International Accounting Firms, particularly in the Asian and PRC markets. His work experience also includes the commercial sector where he spent two years as the Financial Controller for a Hong Kong Stock Exchange listed group and two years with a PRC domestic group engaged in the environmental infrastructure business.

He has also assisted many PRC enterprises listed in Hong Kong, Singapore, UK AIM and NASDAQ.

dannychoi@bakertilly.hk

image description

Doman Wong

Executive Director, Head of Risk Advisory, CGPL

Doman has around 30 years of experience combining external audit, management accounting, operations management, and internal audit and investigation.

First trained in one of the Big Four, he previously held various management positions in a number of listed companies, including Asian subsidiaries of US and UK- based multi-national companies in Hong Kong and Australia.

Doman is actively involved in the management and development of Corporate Governance Professionals Limited, overseeing the performance of internal control review assignments (including SOX compliance review and testing projects, PN21 reviews - main board listing & PN2 reviews – GEM listing), IT system review, corporate governance review, enterprise risk assessment as well as fraud investigation assignments.

domanwong@bakertillyhk.com

image description

Edmond Chan

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance

Edmond has assisted in numerous listings on the Hong Kong, NASDAQ, UK-AIM, Singapore and other overseas capital markets.

Edmond is a Director in the audit and assurance division and director in charge of Macau business services of the firm. He has considerable experience in auditing companies of all sizes, from SMEs to listed companies, both local and overseas. Edmond also has extensive experience in due diligence reviews and IPO reporting. He has a diverse portfolio ranging from clients in regulated industries such as financial advisory and securities investment, to manufacturing, trading, agricultural produce and beauty and slimming services.

edmondchan@bakertilly.hk

image description

Jerry Gao

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance

Jerry’s approach with clients is to build strong relationships with their senior management team. By better understanding his client’s business, their people and their focus, he and his team are able to tailor their advice and services accordingly.

Jerry has considerable audit, assurance and advisory experience and has worked with clients in both private and public sectors. His clients range from private entities to sizable listed companies in Hong Kong, USA, UK with international operations. He also provides financial model review services to investment banks. Jerry has acted as reporting accountant on a number of IPOs, capital raisings and acquisition deals.

Jerry trained and qualified in Mainland China. Prior to joining Baker Tilly, Jerry spent a number of years with a Big Four firm in Beijing and a leading accounting firm in Hong Kong, including an overseas secondment to their Sydney office.

jerrygao@bakertilly.hk

image description

Joseph Lam

Executive Director, Regional Tax

Joseph specialises in tax field audits, tax dispute cases in Hong Kong and cross-border tax issues. His clients include listed companies in Hong Kong and overseas.

Prior to joining the firm in 1999, Joseph spent more than 10 years with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Joseph has successfully advised listed Hong Kong property groups to secure non-taxable capital gains on property redevelopments. He has also represented clients in their Board of Review hearings in Hong Kong involving sources of trading profits. Joseph has assisted a client to pursue a case against the Hong Kong Inland Revenue Department by way of an application for Judicial Review.

Joseph is an independent non-executive director of a Hong Kong Main Board listed group with business in food wholesale, overseas concessionaire retail, and property investment.

josephlam@bakertilly.hk

image description

Matthew Tong

Executive Director, Audit and Assurance

Matthew is a Director of the Audit and Assurance division, and has experience in handling listed and IPO exercises in Hong Kong.

Matthew has extensive experience in handling large audit assignments in a wide variety of industries, including shipping, agriculture, online gaming/casino, trading, and manufacturing. Prior to joining Baker Tilly Hong Kong, he spent nine years with a Big Four accounting firm.

Matthew has developed considerable experience in auditing A and H share dual-listed companies, and Hong Kong and AIM dual-listed companies.

matthewtong@bakertilly.hk

image description

Steven Kwan

Executive Director, Tax

Steven brings nearly 30 years of international tax experience to his position in the Baker Tilly Hong Kong Taxation Division.

Steven specialises in tax reviews and investigations, taxation analysis, and tax liabilities settlement. In addition, Steven has a strong background in PRC tax including individual and corporate tax compliance and planning, business setup, and transfer pricing and documentation.

Steven began his career as a tax assessor in Australia before serving as tax manager with two of the Big Four firms in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Baker Tilly Hong Kong, Steven was a tax director at the Hong Kong office of an international accounting firm.

stevenkwan@bakertilly.hk

image description

Adele Yim

Director, Risk Advisory, CGPL

Adele has around more than 10 years of experience combining external audit, management accounting, operations management, and internal audit and investigation.

Adele joined one of the Big Four for a few years, where she was responsible for supervising staff auditors in a number of systems reviews and audit assignments for both listed companies, large private enterprises, as well as listing candidates (i.e. IPO assignments).

Adele has extensive experience in business advisory services. She got substantial exposure in internal control system reviews (including IPO projects and Hong Kong Listed Companies) which are in the fields of trading, manufacturing, infrastructure and construction, retailing, property development, catering and hospitality industries in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

adeleyim@cgpl.hk

image description

Anntice Lai

Director, Technical & Regulatory

Anntice has in depth knowledge of financial reporting requirements and a profound understanding of the Hong Kong regulatory environment.

Anntice is experienced in resolving and advising upon technical accounting and auditing matters for SMEs through to listed entities, both local and overseas. She provides independent advice internally and to clients on accounting, financial reporting, auditing and listing matters.

She has considerable experience in handling technical and regulatory matters, including enquiries and investigations from local regulators. Anntice monitors our firm’s compliance with ethical and quality control standards and delivers technical training.

Anntice previously obtained experience with several accounting firms, including KPMG and Deloitte, and in the Financial Reporting Council.

annticelai@bakertilly.hk

image description

Janet Tsang

Director, Audit and Assurance

Janet is a Director in the Clients Accounting, and Audit and Assurance divisions.

Janet specialises in SME audit services and has extensive experience in auditing companies, for both local and transnational companies. She also leads engagements in accounting and statutory financial statements preparation services.

Over the years Janet has gained in-depth industry knowledge from handling assignments over a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, trading, SFC-regulated companies, investment and property holding, as well as non-profit making organisations.

janettsang@bakertilly.hk

image description

May Ng

Director, Human Resources & Corporate Affairs

May joined Baker Tilly Hong Kong in 2008 and oversees the firm's operation in administration, human resources and corporate affairs.

May has extensive experience in managing the internal HR for the firm and is well-versed in Hong Kong employment related matters. Her service area covers human resources planning, recruitment and strategic human resources management for both the firm and clients.

May is a Professional Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resources Management.

mayng@bakertilly.hk

image description

Ryan Swann

Director, Audit and Assurance

Ryan has vast experience in handling large and complex cross border audit assignments. Consequently he has developed a strong professional network internationally.

Ryan holds a portfolio of sizeable multinational corporations and has a wealth of experience in handling international assignments. His clients typically prepare consolidated financial statements under International Financial Reporting Standards with component auditors required to report to him as principal auditor under International Standard on Auditing 600. From this experience, he has developed a strong network within Baker Tilly International, in addition to, other external contacts and this enables him to execute these challenging assignments under pressure, on time and to the highest quality.

Ryan has, and continues to, participated in committees within Baker Tilly International to develop the network’s Global Focus Audit Methodology.

ryanswann@bakertilly.hk

Cookie Disclaimer

We use cookies on our website to make your browsing experience better and to continually improve our website. To find out what cookies are, which ones we use and why, please see our cookie policy statement. If you continue to use our website, we will assume that you are happy with the cookies we use. You can manage your cookie preferences at any time through your chosen browser settings.