Vanessa embarked on her role as the Group Managing Director of Nan Fung Development Ltd. in late 2017, managing the Hong Kong property division. Vanessa is the Founder of The Mills – a revitalization project of the Nan Fung Textile Mills into a global innovation techstyle gallery, incubator and retail destination. She worked for AECOM as a Landscape Designer and a part-time lecturer at HKU on City Branding. She hopes to inspire the younger generation and push Hong Kong’s leadership potential beyond the status quo.

She is a convener of NarrativeHK, an initiative promoting positive attitude among her generation in envisioning the future of HK. She co-founded Quo Kefir Believers, a natural probiotic health food company, and the co-owner of HK’s first CrossFit gym, CrossFit Asphodel. Vanessa obtained her Masters in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University and Bachelors in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.