Hello, I’m Ada Yip. Over the past two decades, my journey has spanned international finance, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship across Toronto, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. Throughout these diverse roles, I’ve found my passion in bringing people and sectors together to address complex social and environmental challenges.

I started my career in banking and finance. In 2015, I had the opportunity to lead the concept-to-enterprise venture building for Urban Spring. It was a rewarding 8-year journey to develop a well-designed water refill network in Hong Kong with a mission to reduce single-use plastic bottles. In the past 2 years, I had the privilege to serve as Deputy CEO at The Women’s Foundation to advocate for gender equity and as CEO of JUST FEEL, where our team works to foster social emotional learning and inclusive school communities through compassionate communication.

Beyond my day-to-day work, I have served on multiple boards of social purpose organizations. Currently I am on the boards of Social Value International and Social Value Hong Kong, and I co-founded WYNG 43 Social Investment.

I believe meaningful, lasting progress rarely happens in isolation. My focus is simply on listening, learning, and building thoughtful partnerships where empathy and innovation can meet to create positive, practical impact.

I was formerly a management consultant at McKinsey, and took on several senior roles at larger companies, such as APAC COO at GLG, the world’s largest expert consulting network. In recent years I have been founder of businesses across different industry sectors.

What I hope to bring to ACS is the rigorous consulting fundamentals from McKinsey, but reshaped to be genuinely useful in the real world, and relevant for smaller organizations with limited budgets and talents. I hope to bring to SPOs practical and impactful advice that they can actually use on the ground.

With over 27 years of corporate leadership experience in the luxury retail sector across Asia Pacific, I am passionate about applying strategy, leadership and transformation expertise to strengthen social purpose organizations in Hong Kong. I have been an advocate of Asian Charity Services for the past eight years, serving as a strategic advisor / consultant to small and medium-sized SPOs through ACS’s IGNITE & PIVOT program.