Faculty Senior Staff
Chairman /
CEO
Prof Schumann F Tang, PhD
Professor Schumann F
Tang, founder of Hong Kong Film Academy, received his first degree
in Graphic Design and Professional Photography at New York School of
Fine Arts. After graduation he worked as a designer and fashion
photographer with Leo Burnette, a 4A-advertising agency based in New
York. A year after he was promoted Art Director he resigned from the
agency and furthered his study in Film and Television Production at
New York University. He joined CBS-TV for a year and then moved to
NBC-TV in Los Angeles where he pursued his MFA in Film Production,
MSS and PhD in Clinical Psychology at UCLA. Prof Tang had worked for
a number of film companies in Hollywood such as Falcon Productions,
CineVision Productions etc before he began his lecturing career as
Associate Professor at Columbia College of Film and Television and
Professor at UCLA.
Prof Tang was former President of
East-West Communications (USA), Director of International Alliance
of Art Critics-Hong Kong Chapter, Panel Juror of Spanish
International Film Students Festival, Chairman of Hong Kong Golden
Bauhinia Film Awards, and Founder-Director of Hong Kong Film Critics
Association. Presently, Prof Tang serves as Juror Member of the Hong
Kong Film Awards, Expert Adviser to HK Cable-TV, Subject Specialist
of Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation, Production Director
(Asian Pacific) of MetroCine Productions, and Director of Hong Kong
Psychological Research Center.
Vice
Chairman
Michael
Gleissner
A noted underwater
photographer and music video director, Michael Gleissner began his
professional career in the technology industry. After service as
Vice President at Amazon.com, Gleissner turned his attention to
entertainment business and started the Bigfoot Group of Companies,
which includes ventures such as Bigfoot Entertainment, Hong Kong
Film Academy, the International Academy of Film and Television in
the Philippines, ClererLearn, New Concept Mandarin and Bigfoot
Partners, a film fund that has financed and produced diverse films
such as 3 Needles, East Broadway, Shanghai Kiss and The Curiosity of
Chance. Among the projects in development of Bigfoot Entertainment
are the adventure travel television series, "Nautical Angels" and
feature films “See Dick Run” and “Cockfight”, shooting later this
year. Bigfoot also acquired the master franchise of Fashion TV in
Singapore and the Philippines, and has just finished shooting a
Hollywood movie (“Irreversi”) in Hong Kong.
CFO
Lo Chi-kin
Andie, CPA, ACA, FCCA, ACIS, ACS,
MHKSI, MPAcc, MBA, MCG
Lo Chi Kin, Andie is a
Certified Public Accountant of The Hong Kong Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, an associate member of The Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, and a fellow member of
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in United
Kingdom. Mr. Lo is also an associate member of The Institute of
Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in the United Kingdom and
The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries. He graduated from
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a Master's Degree in
Professional Accounting and holds a Master's Degree in Business
Administration and a Master's Degree in Corporate Governance from
The Open University of Hong Kong. Currently, Mr. Lo is an executive
director and a chief corporate management consultant of On Harvest
(H.K.) Limited. Previously, he had been engaged as a senior
executive of various listed companies in Hong Kong and had worked
for an international accountancy firm. Mr. Lo has more than twenty
years' working experience in finance, accounting, auditing,
administration, management, corporate governance and formation of
corporate strategies and policies and is an author of the book
titled “Guide to MPF Contributions – Employer's Wise Pocket”, which
was well acknowledged by the previous chairman of the Securities and
Futures Commission and had been collected by the Central Library in
Hong Kong for public reference.
Legal Adviser
Li Qing
Hua, LLB
Legal Adviser
Li Yan, LLM