Our People

Andrew Burgin

Managing Director

Andrew is the founder of A-PASS and director responsible for the strategic direction of the business and its ongoing operations. Andrew has worked in the corporate services field for over 20 years in Hong Kong and prior to starting A-PASS, was an Associate Director at KCS Limited and a Senior Manager at Grant Thornton in Hong Kong. Andrew trained with Ernst & Young in the UK and is a Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Robin Harris

Director

Robin is responsible for the strategy and management of the Asian operations of Capricorn, specifically its Private Equity activities. Previously he was head of the Private Capital Markets business of Macquarie Capital in Hong Kong. Robin is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town. He has lived and worked in HK for the past 17 years and is married with two children.

Richard Watson

Business Development Director

Australian born and raised, Richard has been in executive level General Management, Operations, Sales and Marketing roles in Australia and Asia since 1988. He is a permanent resident of Hong Kong, having lived and worked there since 1997. Richard commutes monthly between Hong Kong and Thailand, as well as regularly to Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane, London, Toronto, Vancouver, and Los Angeles.

Richard graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Computer Science), and has since added to his academic portfolio Diplomas in both Education and Professional Development, Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, MBA (Marketing and International Trade), as well as qualifications in Compliance (CAMS) and Trusts (Diploma in Trust Administration).

Janelle Cowin

Human Resources and Operations Director

Also, an Australian born professional, Janelle brings a wealth of experience of over 25 years, in the areas of Human Resources (Diploma in HRM): accredited Quality Improvement/Compliance (ISO) and Business Administration (Cert). During her 7 years in Hong Kong, she has been a business partner and Director of Ethos HK Limited; responsible for the overseeing all business operations and people in Hong Kong and Philippine offices before joining A-PASS. Janelle has a diverse and varied background that has prepared and enabled her to assess and adapt quickly to changing environments and cultures.

Janelle has achieved successes in these areas ensuring sustainability, compliance, and continued growth of business through systemic processes, awareness and value of our human capital and commitment to high quality service provision.

Carolyn Lui

Head of Corporate Secretarial Services

Carolyn leads the company secretarial team to provide full range of corporate secretarial services to clients and responsible for business operations. She has over 20 years of solid corporate secretarial experience gained from international provider of trust and corporate services. Carolyn works closely with compliance team to ensure client’s entities are in compliance with the current legislation. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Maggie Choi

Manager, Accounting

Maggie is responsible for providing a full range of accounting and payroll services to our clients. She is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She started her career in the accounting industry at Grant Thornton Hong Kong and has worked in this field for over 20 years.

Mandy Lui

Senior Manager, Compliance

Mandy Lui is responsible for the overall compliance issues. She is charged not just with keeping a company’s business dealings ethically sound and legally pristine, but with educating the company and instituting practices that will ensure the highest possible level of compliance. Previously Mandy worked in an international provider of trust and corporate services where she spent the past 16 years in Legal & Compliance Department as well as Corporate Secretarial Department. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of West London. She also engaged in an advanced studies in Compliance.

Charles Kinsley

Consultant

Charles has extensive knowledge of the financial services tax sector in Asia having being based in Hong Kong since 1996. He has worked with a broad range of financial services clients from global institutions, sovereigns, brokers, fund managers and fund start-ups across Asia. As such, he is well placed to assist clients in managing their tax affairs through commenting on proposed investment structures, reviewing existing structures to ensure they remain robust, helping with revenue authority disputes and managing third party providers.

More recently, Charles has been working with an asset manager advising on the setting up and management of family office structures.

Until his retirement in September 2019, Charles was a financial services tax partner with a Big 4 firm in Hong Kong where he spent the last 23 years.

Simon Fraser

Consultant

Simon Fraser has more than 20 years’ experience as a legal practitioner in the UK and Hong Kong and more than 14 years of fiduciary experience at senior level with two substantial international offshore trust companies. He is a solicitor admitted in England and Wales and in Hong Kong (currently non-practicing)

Simon moved to Hong Kong from the UK in 1986 to work for a local firm of solicitors (Fairbairn Catley Low & Kong) where he went on to head up the commercial department for six years. In 1997 he joined Insinger de Beaufort Trust, an international fiduciary services provider, as managing director in their Hong Kong office before moving with Insinger de Beaufort Trust to the Channel Islands in 2000.

In 2002, Simon joined Ogier Fiduciary Services in Jersey as a director overseeing the private client team. Following his return to Hong Kong in 2012, he established the Hong Kong office of the London-based commercial law firm, MJ Hudson, as a registered foreign law firm.