Simon Hui leads the Firm's Investigations, Compliance & Ethics and Dispute Resolution team in Shanghai. With more than 25 years of practice experience, he has in-depth experience in handling
compliance/regulatory matters including anti-bribery/anti-corruption, unfair competition, cybersecurity and supply chain management related risks and issues.

Simon is a skilled investigator and has conducted complex investigations for a large number of multinational companies across a range of industries. He also has experience in dealing with PRC
judiciary bodies and regulators such as SPC, SAMR, China Customs SAFE. He assists various multinational companies with conducting due diligence, risk assessment and compliance system structuring, and provides training to their management and business teams on anticorruption,
anti-bribery and cybersecurity related issues.

He has been interviewed by leading business media such as the Financial Times for his work on assisting the SOE in the establishment of compliance system as the country pushes for its SOEs to participate in the Belt & Road Initiatives.

From 2016 to 2023, Simon was recognized as the "Tier 1 Leading Individual" in the field of Regulatory & Compliance and Dispute Resolution in China by Legal 500 for eight consecutive years. In 2022 and 2023, Simon earned the recognition of the "Leading Individual" in Corporation Investigations/Anti-Corruption by Chambers Greater China.

In 2022, He was awarded "Regulatory & Compliance Lawyer of the Year" by China Law & Practice (CLP) and "A-List: China's Elite Lawyers" by China Business Law Journal (CBLJ).Simon is also an
arbitrator of the Shanghai Arbitration Commission and an arbitrator of the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (formerly known as the "South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission" the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area International Arbitration Center" and the "Shenzhen Arbitration Commission").

Brian was the co-founder of EY’s Pre-Investment Due Diligence Service in Greater China and Assurance Blockchain Leader. He leads a group of 50+ data scientists. He has over 20 years of combined experience providing big data analytics, artificial intelligence, forensic data analytics, automation, information technology consulting and auditing to a number of Fortune 2000 companies in the United States, Greater China, and Singapore.

Brian has provided these services in a wide range of industries including: private equity, banking, technology, and life sciences. As an expert of major data analytical tools such as Palantir, MS SQL, SPSS, R, Tableau, Spotfire, and Qlik. Brian co-developed EY’s enterprise intelligence framework and new data analytic solutions using business intelligence technology, key risk indicators (KRI), and data modeling. He specializes in big data analytics, automation, pattern detection, and performed review of servers, applications, database logs using visual analytics, text mining, and predictive modeling techniques

Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Brian worked for the National Aerospace and Space Administration (NASA)’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Van Fleet serves as adjunct faculty and Director, Corporate Globalization, at the Antai College of Economic & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he focuses on corporate interface and development for Antai’s students and faculty. He also co-produces and co-hosts Antai’s Doing Business in China program. His research project is First Time in History, an exploration of China’s socioeconomic rise since 1978.

For more than ten years, he served as founding executive director and Assistant Dean at the USC Marshall-SJTU Antai Global Executive MBA in Shanghai. Previous to his academic career, Van Fleet spent 15 years in the private sector, based in Japan and China, serving multinationals as well as startups.

He is extensively published on broader aspects of business, history and society in the East Asia region, in Nikkei Asia, The Asian Review of Books, Caixin, CGTN, the China Economic Review, The Diplomat, the Royal Asiatic Society China Journal, SupChina and Xinhua News. Van Fleet published his first book in 2015, T a le s of Old T ok y o, a scrapbook tour of the city’s history from 1853 to 1964. First Time in History: China’s Socioeconomic Rise Since 1978, is an ongoing multimedia enterprise (essays, podcasts, eventual book). He holds both undergraduate and MBA degrees from the University of Southern California.

About First Time in History
In terms of scope, scale and speed, China’s socioeconomic rise since 1978 is unparalleled in world history. The First Time in History project investigates the background and vectors that launched the rise, its evolution over the four decades since, and what the First Time in History phenomenon portends for China and the world in the 2020s and beyond.

Kim is the Senior Director, Compliance and Risk Management for Asia Pacific at PVH Corp., the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger. Her career spans across Europe and Asia gained in US law firms, US and China listed companies, and privately held multinational companies, as well as the UK and Malaysian central government. Using her cultural sensitivity and sound international outlook she has seamlessly harmonized global compliance programs and empowered leaders of diverse backgrounds to nurture and cultivate organizational ethical behavior. Her past speaking engagements include being a guest on the award winning “Great Women in Compliance” podcast, a guest speaker to MSc students at the NYU, Shanghai campus as well as to MBA students at Webster University, China campus. She was the winner of the “Rising Star in Compliance”, Excellence in Compliance Award in 2022 by Compliance Week, and a finalist for the Compliance Officer of the Year Award by C5 Communications in 2020. Kim is qualified both the UK and Malaysia and speaks four languages. She is part of the core committee of PVH’s flagship Empowering Women business resource group.

Kim is also the current Vice-Chair of the Legal Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.