Is Space Your Next Business and Engineering Frontier?

Professor Gregg Li - Astropreneur and Comprador of NewSpace from the time he was a summer engineering intern at Pearl Harbor in 1976 to a stint as an ambassador for the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes into China as she was opening up to the world of management consulting in 2002, Gregg has been a bridge builder along the Asia Pacific Coast. He has connected entrepreneurs with investors, engineers with innovators, coaches with start-ups, students with employers, and innovative companies with disruptive opportunities. As an “Astropreneur” and a Comprador of NewSpace, he is connecting entrepreneurs, governments, universities, engineers, and venture capitalists given the arrival of the NewSpace and Digital economy.

Educated as a systems engineer and organizational architect, Gregg has had over four decades of experience helping disparate parties find common grounds for dialogue and understanding, map new strategies for digital transformation, and manage rapid change and growth.

Other than building bridges Gregg has been nurturing and developing future leaders along the Pacific Rim. Change is made much easier with the right leadership. He is proud to say that a few of his hundred-plus mentees are now partners at leading consulting firms, global heads at MNCs, and founders of disruptive startups. They have been co-travelers on his journey of discovery, and many are now changing the world for the better. Many of his students and mentees are now leading global firms and family empires… from McKinsey, to Microsoft, to Huawei, to DBS. Having worked with, personally coached and mentored high-flyers with global players while he was with Aon, American Express, Citibank, IBM, Protiviti, and PWC, he is now mentoring coaches for family businesses in his semi-retirement.

Gregg was the founding Chair and President of the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy or OASA, which is headquartered in Hong Kong. He is now their Global Convenor. In addition, as an organizational troubleshooter, he has shared his know-how as an Adjunct Professor, such as at the University of Hawaii, University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua University. From time to time, he enjoys teaching on esoteric subjects like International Corporate Governance, ESG, Systems Engineering, and Space entrepreneurship. In Hong Kong alone, he has been an advisor to the Lab for Space Research, Consumer Council, AAMA, and the Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology. Gregg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, University of Hawaii, HKU, UCLA, Warwick University in the UK. He continues to learn and share with other hitchhikers of the galaxy.