Howard Bilton is Chairman and founder of The Sovereign Group – one of the world’s largest privately owned consultancies specialising in the provision of offshore trusts and companies and associated international tax advice- www.SovereignGroup.com. He currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Howard holds a joint honours BA degree in classics and law from the University of Keele and is qualified as a Barrister and called to the Bars of England/Wales and Gibraltar. He is a regular contributor of articles to The Telegraph and Financial Times. He is a visiting non-resident professor at Texas A and M University where he assists with their LLM and Masters degrees in International Tax and Offshore Centres. In 2003 he formed The Sovereign Art Foundation Limited which is a charity registered in Hong Kong, Singapore, Guernsey, South Africa and the UK. SAF has raised over US$9 million which has been used to help many thousands of disadvantaged children using art as a means of rehabilitation and education. See www.SovereignArtFoundation.com. He is the principal of Hillvalley Limited which since 2005 has been making wine in Portugal which is sold throughout the world under the “Howard’s Folly” brand name. See www.HowardsFollyWine.com

Since 1997 Irene Bradbury has been with the gallery, White Cube run by Jay Jopling with two locations in London and one in Hong Kong. During that time, as an Artist liaison and now a Director, she has worked closely with many of the artists that White Cube represents, overseeing numerous exhibitions as part of their programme and collaborated on many projects with curatorial colleagues in the museum or public institutional field. In spring 2008, Irene co-curated a group exhibition with the artist, Harland Miller based around Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories called ‘You dig the tunnel, I’ll hide the soil’ across two sites, Shoreditch Town Hall and White Cube Hoxton. In that same year, she curated a group exhibition ‘Every Eye Sees Differently as the Eye’ at the Drawing Room, London.

Since opening the Bermondsey galleries in 2011, Irene has led on a number of the ‘Inside the White Cube’ exhibitions - a platform for new artists at the gallery, notably with Kitty Kraus, Marcius Galan, Larry Bell, Eddie Peake and Michael Armitage. Last summer she curated the first online ‘Introductions’ exhibition with Minoru Nomata. In addition to her role at White Cube, Irene is currently on the Advisory Board of the Drawing Room, London and has previously worked on numerous independent projects. From 2010, she commissioned artworks for Sadler’s Wells Theatre working with Gary Hume, Lothar Hempel, Silke Otto-Knapp, Idris Kahn, Sam Taylor-Wood and Donna Huddleston. Prior to this (2005-8) Irene collaborated with Soraya Rodriguez (at that time, Director of Zoo Art Fair, London) running a curatorial agency called ‘The Great Unsigned’ and was a contributor of ‘MA stars’; a review blog of student degree shows for AXIS, a web-based directory of practicing artists in the UK.

MARC-OLIVIER WAHLER (born 1964 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland) is an international museum director, curator, and writer. He is the current director of the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva. He also serves as the founder and president of PAL Paris Art Lab and Chalet Society (Paris), as well as the founder and creative director of Transformer Sculpture Park (Melides, Portugal). He is the former director of the MSU Broad Museum at Michigan State University (East Lansing, 2016-2019), former director of Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2006-2012), former director of Swiss Institute (New York, 2000-2006), founding director of CAN (Neuchâtel, 1995-2000), founding editor of PALAIS / Magazine, and co-founder of the Tokyo Art Club (Paris).

As director of the MSU Broad museum he organized  around 30 exhibitions a year, among them solo presentations of seminal figures such as Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, David Lamelas, and Michel Parmentier. He founded a new project: the Art Lab, a collaborative and community-oriented venue.

He also founded the Chalet Society, producing contemporary art exhibitions in a former school building in central Paris, including outsider artists, young emerging artists as well as international stars.

Wahler’s tenure at the Palais de Tokyo proves his ability to bring a nascent art institution to international relevance in original, innovative exhibitions with emerging artists. His directorship was so successful that the French state incorporated the museum into the national system. His international campaign and program innovations made Palais de Tokyo the “number one reason to come to France,” according to Wallpaper Magazine (2009) and “the coolest museum in Paris" according to T: New York Times Style Magazine (2009).

During the last 25 years, Marc-Olivier Wahler has organized over 400 exhibitions – principally as museum director / chief curator, but also as a free-lance curator. As a writer and art critic, Marc-Olivier Wahler regularly writes on contemporary art in international magazines and academic books. His most renowned publication is the art encyclopedia From Yodeling to Quantum Physics in 5 volumes. His last book “The Transported Man” explores the notion of belief in magic and contemporary art.

In 2011, he was decorated as a Chevalier in the French Republic's Order of Arts and Letters. In 2013, Wahler was awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize, Switzerland’s highest cultural award in the contemporary arts.

Michèle Sandoz has worked over the past two decades in different capacities on international commercial and non-commercial projects. Presently she is the Global Head of VIP Relations at Art Basel. She leads the global development and execution of Art Basel global VIP strategy. Before joining Art Basel, she held the role as General Manager and deputy director of Christie’s in Zurich and oversaw their business development activities for Asia. Prior to that, she headed the department of Asian Art at Koller Auctions in Zurich, where she worked as specialist of South East Asian art. Thereafter, she joined Daros Latin America Collection to develop and manage their collection of contemporary Latin American art. Michèle studied Chinese and Japanese Art history and Chinese language and culture at the University of Zurich and the Beijing Language and Cultural University. Presently, she sits on the Advisory Board of the Executive Master in Art Market Studies of the University of Zurich and joined the newly launched Art Market Mentors program as a mentor. Born in Zimbabwe, she speaks French, English, German and Mandarin, and lives in Zurich with her son.

Sara Mao is the Director for Christie’s Education in Asia, overseeing the development of programmes across Hong Kong, China, and South East Asia. Sara joined Christie’s in 2008 as a Junior Specialist Trainee, and in 2015, she was appointed Vice President, Specialist Head of Sale for Chinese Modern Paintings, focused on nurturing client relationships and securing consignments in Asia for auction and private sales.

Sara has curated over ten seasons of auctions for some of the most iconic paintings and important collections in the field. She was responsible for spearheading record-breaking sales of Fu Baoshi’s The Song of the Pipa Player for HKD204.8 million, and Zhang Daqian’s Ancient Temples Amidst Clouds for HKD102.4 million, in 2017. Sara is also an auctioneer for Christie’s, and supports numerous charity auctions, including Save the Children, Ronald McDonald House, Make a Wish Foundation, The National Kidney Foundation (SNG), and others.

After receiving her B.A. in Philosophy & English Literature at the University of York (UK), Sara acquired her Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP Law School (UK) and a Master of Letters in History of Art and Connoisseurship, with a concentration in Chinese art, from Christie’s Education and the University of Glasgow.

Tim has been in the Event organising business for over 30 years and has been responsible for creating and launching over 50 Events in his career.

Tim’s involvement with Art Fairs started in Australia where the idea for Art HK was developed and very quickly it became the third largest Contemporary Art Fair in the world. Together with his partners Sandy Angus and Magnus Renfrew they have in recent years created Taipei Dangdai, Art Central and most recently Art SG.

Tim is an enthusiastic Art buyer, and his collection includes a diverse collection from Andy Warhol to numerous Australian artists.