Our People
At A-PASS, we’ve earned our stripes with careers at international firms spanning multiple sectors. We are a focused and flexible team with the expertise to accommodate projects of all sizes, for businesses big or small.
We believe in transparency and communication. When you work with one of us, you work with all of us, and we are proud to be of service.
Andrew Burgin
Managing Director
I am energised by my wonderful clients, colleagues and this exciting city we live in. Working at A-PASS in Hong Kong is for me an absolute pleasure.
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
Our people and the reputation they build are our greatest asset.
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.
Carolyn Lui
Head of Corporate Secretarial Services
We are what we believe we are. - C. S. Lewis
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
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - from Laozi
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
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. ~Benjamin Spock
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 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
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.
