Chris Fong to head up High Growth Capital
High Growth Capital announced on Monday that Christopher Fong would be appointed as its chief executive officer, conditional on completion of satisfactory due diligence.
The FTSE 250 company said Fong had more than 30 years of experience working across both public and private sectors, having begin his career in Australia working on regional media and activation campaigns for tobacco giant Philip Morris.
In 1992 he joined the Yellow River Network - Asia's largest production services facility, which controlled a network of music and film production, visual effects and animation companies including Singapore's first broadcast uplink satellite facility.
Fong later established Renaissance Films and Evolution, a boutique film production and visual effects company, with operations in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
In 2004 Chris formed ISA Communications - a geopolitical and strategic advisory firm with a range of clients that included multinational corporations, family-controlled conglomerates and government agencies.
Later, ISA apparently expanded into entertainment and sports management services, advising on a range of client interests particularly on football investments in Europe, South America, Indonesia and Australia and high-impact contact sports.
Fong is currently a director of Australian professional football club Brisbane Roar FC, a member of the Australian Football Federation, and the vice-chairman of the Australian Professional Football Clubs Association.
“It's with great pleasure to be able to bring Chris on board at the start of what will certainly be an exciting journey,” said High Growth Capital’s chairman Jens Zimmermann.
“His appreciation and understanding of future MEGA online to offline service propositions, cultural connectivity and Asia proximity will prove invaluable.
“I look forward to working closely with Chris as we start to bring the core initial building blocks into place.”
Chris Fong added that Jens and himself were “aligned” in standing in front of the next wave of major consumer disruption.
“Audience centricity will become a key theme and I expect that HCG will be able to, in various creative and progressive ways, participate and contribute to this on a global scale.
“I am really looking forward to the challenges ahead. In the near term we will focus on a small number of identified and compelling opportunities that could form the basis around our bold thesis and at the same time tie in effectively with our initial investment in Sentiance,” Fong explained.
“We anticipate providing further updates to shareholders with more context and details for 2019 and beyond.”