Angel Chia is the Executive Director of the Hong Kong Academy for Wealth Legacy, a pioneering institute dedicated to invigorating a vibrant ecosystem for family offices worldwide. The Academy aims to foster knowledge sharing, networking, and collaboration amongst family office principals, next-generation wealth owners and family office ecosystem professionals, with a view to strengthening Hong Kong as a leading global family office hub. 

Prior to joining the Academy, Angel was the Chair of the Family Office Association Hong Kong, an industry association for professional Family Offices.  

Angel has accumulated 20+ years of experience in the financial industry, ranging from equity sales & trading to asset & wealth management in Taipei, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, with Salomon Smith Barney, ABN Amro and BNP Paribas. Angel spent the last decade as a serial entrepreneur. She set up the Singapore subsidiary for Shenwan Hongyuan (000166.CH) and later managed the Chinese firm’s offshore asset management business in Hong Kong and Singapore. She then set up SingAlliance (Hong Kong) as CEO for the Singaporean External Asset Manager and was Chief Strategy Officer of Fountainhead Partners. Angel later founded NexGenerator, a family office accelerator that mentors UHNW next-gens to be well-informed principals of their own Family Office structures. 

Angel holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute of Global Asset Management, National Sun-Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.