Established in 2015, Urban Spring, a mission driven company headquartered in Hong Kong, has been redefining the water refill experience outside of the home by building a reliable network of well-designed and well-maintained water stations in Hong Kong and beyond. With immense passion and dedication, we strive to bring together a suite of technology and applications for empowering deployment of smarter alternatives to single-use plastic bottled water for a sustainable urban lifestyle.

Well井 is our signature product, a Hong Kong designed, award-winning smart water station that provides point-of-use drinking water serving hundreds and thousands of people commuting around our city.

Our core belief is to use data to drive our service design and lead the change for better living. Our product development has moved towards an open-source IoT (Internet of Things) infrastructure for data collection, processing, analytics and device management. This enables us to be more adaptive and evidence-based in product, process and impact assessment.

OUR CORE VALUES

Integrity  |   Collaboration   |   Evidence   |   Courage   |   Respect

Meet The Team

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Ada Yip
/ CEO
/ Career Transition Mentor
/ Chinese Tea Taster
Andy
Andy Cheung
/ Product Support Manager
/ Home Cook
/ Movie Lover
Steven
Steven Chui
/ Product Development Director
/ Explorer
/ Silent Observer
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Katherine Lam
/ Director of Business Analytics
/ novice philosopher
/ Trusted confidante
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Edward Yuen
/ Senior Product Manager
/ Whisky‎ Taster
/ Novice Runner
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Helen Chan
/ Business Development Director
/ Volunteer House Builder
/ Travel Enthusiast
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Well井
/ Smart Water Refill Station
/ Urban Spring’s Brain Child
/ Single-use Plastic Fighter

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Board Members

Our Board of Directors is a group of passionate and determined problem-solvers who want to make a difference!

With their leadership and profound industry experience, the Board encourages a culture of innovation and operating excellence. 

Ada Yip

Executive Director,
Urban Spring
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  • Ada is the Chief Executive Officer of Urban Spring since its launch in September 2015. She is also a director of WYNG 43 Social Investment which invests financial and human capital in innovative mission-focused start-ups.

  • Prior to these ventures, Ada was the Program Director of the i2i (incubation to investment) program at SOW Asia. Ada also sits on the board of Hong Kong Institute of Social Impact Analysts and Education For Good. She volunteers at a number of non-profit organizations and is part of the Advisory Committee on Enhancing Employment of People with Disabilities under the Social Welfare Department of the Hong Kong Government.

  • Ada was born and brought up in Hong Kong. She has been fully dedicated to supporting the social entrepreneurship development in Hong Kong since 2013.

  • Prior to embarking on this journey, She worked at a number of financial institutions in Toronto, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
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Anthony Ng

Trustee,
WYNG Foundation
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  • Dr Anthony Ng was born in Hong Kong, where he received his primary and secondary education. He left to study abroad in 1966. He received his BSc degree from McGill University and his MD and MPH degrees from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. He then received his surgery training in the United States, New Zealand and England.

  • He joined the University Surgical Unit of Hong Kong University Medical School in 1979. He started his private practice group in 1986. He was honorary secretary for the Hong Kong Medical Association from 1988 to 1992.

  • He has retired from active practice since 2012. Since returning to Hong Kong, he has taken an interest in community affairs. He was chairman of the Hong Kong Observers, a Hong Kong pressure group in 1985 and served as an elected District Councilor for Sheung Wan from 1985 to 1994.

  • He was also a member of the Consumer Council from 1990 to 1995. He continues to maintain an interest in the constitutional and environmental affairs of Hong Kong.
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But Ho Ming

Advisor,
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BUTHO MING

  • But Ho Ming, a sunday hiker since 2003, was formerly a Senior Executive in Engineering Consulting, Telecommunications, and a Lecturer in the HK Polytechnic University.

  • As Investor, Trustee and/or Director in the following business ventures and non-profit voluntary agencies, Mr. But Ho Ming currently takes up responsibilities in their management and operations:

– Robot Sapience Limited – Supplier of Educational Platform in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence at High School and Junior College Level
– Computancy Limited (Software Developer for New Media and Social Networks);
– Hamilton Concord Consulting (HK) Limited (General Business Consulting);
– Wellstar Electronics Limited (Supplier for Façade Lighting & LED Panels/Curtains);
– Produce Green Foundation (Charity Institute promoting Organic Farming & Sustainable Development);
– Creative Technology Education Association (Voluntary Association in the Education Sector, promoting the creative use of information systems, artificial intelligence and robotics);
– WYNG Foundation (Private Foundation & Registered Charity Body, support Information Exchange & Knowledge Dissemination).

  • But Ho Ming was a graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, London School of Economics & Political Science, and a British Council Scholar.
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Edmundo Klophaus

Global Head of Product Lifecycle Management,
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  • During his 32 years career span, Edmundo Klophaushas occupied various functions in Sales, Marketing & Communication, and Product Lifecycle Management. This has brought Edmundo abroad experience in selling and marketing products to Business-to-Consumer, Business-to-Business, and Business-to-Government markets at national, regional and global level, bringing him on contact with a wide variety of private enterprises, institutions, NGOs, development banks and governments.

  • In Edmundo’s 25-years career in Philips Lighting, the global leader in Lighting solutions, his last responsibility was developing and executing large scale energy saving programs for governments in developing countries with objectives of bringing energy savings to households, reduce carbon emissions to fight climate change and avoid capital expenditure on new power plants for governments. Edmundo worked intensively on the “Cuidemos Mexico“ project, where a total saving is achieved of 1630MW of electricity, 7.44 million barrels of oil and 2.78 million tons of CO2 each year.

  • In 2013, Edmundo moved to thyssenkrupp Elevators, a global top 3 supplier of Elevator product, to become head of Marketing & Communications in Asia Pacific. Currently, Edmundo is Global Head of Product Lifecycle Management. In this function, Edmundo is responsible for all product portfolio decisions, defining the product strategy in an increasingly digital Elevator market.

  • Edmundo is a graduate of Fontys University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. After graduation he started his own company in IT before moving to the corporate world. His career brought him to over 50 countries. Edmundo was born in Chile, raised in the Netherlands and currently lives in HongKong.
 
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Jolene Lin

Director,
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law

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  • Jolene’s main areas of expertise are climate change law and transnational environmental law. Jolene is Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and a member of the advisory board for the University of Strathclyde’s LLM in Climate Change Law and Policy. She is a member of the editorial boards of: Journal of Environmental Law, Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, and Climate Law.

  • Before joining NUS, Jolene was associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong. Jolene has served as consultant to the Hong Kong Department of Justice, international NGOs, the United Nations Environment Programme, and global law firms. She has also served on the Hong Kong Appeal Tribunal Panel (Buildings Ordinance) and the Hong Kong Appeal Board Panel (Town Planning).

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