Asian Capital Advisors

John Spence is the founder of Asian Capital Advisors. Based in Hong Kong since 2000, John has focused on executing Asian insurance mergers and acquisitions transactions, fostering strategic alliances, launching innovative insurance customer offers, crafting digital initiatives and ecosystems partnerships, and evaluating insurtech business opportunities.

John has been engaged across Asia, North America and Australia and is practiced at leveraging global teams and guiding local teams by aligning strategic insights and exercising rigour in corporate governance.

John has held a number of senior leadership roles across the financial sector. From 2015 to 2023, he served as the Regional Head of M&A and Strategy for Generali Asia. Prior to this, John held leadership roles at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW), Macquarie Funds Group, and Manulife Financial. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, John held various roles with Manulife Financial in Canada and in Australia he worked with National Australia Bank, Colonial Mutual, AMP Society, and KPMG.

John holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) at the University of New South Wales Business School, Bachelor of Economics (BEc) from Sydney University, is a Fellow Chartered Accountant Australia and New Zealand (FCA ANZ), Fellow Australian Institute of Banking and Finance (FFin), Governance Institute of Australia (FGIA FCIS); Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors (FHKIoD). He is Certified Financial Planner (CFP) of the Financial Advice Association of Australia, a Senior Associate of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF (Snr Assoc) CIP) and is a Chartered Tax Advisor of the Tax Institute (CTA); Also he is a Member of the MBA Australasia (mMBAus).