Nelson Lam is the managing director of Chronicle Advisors, a Hong Kong based company that provides family office consulting services and family advisory. Nelson was previously the head of a single family office based in Hong Kong providing him with 10 years of hands-on experience in institutionalizing and managing a full service single family office from the ground up.

Nelson’s experience has been in the executive functions area of a single family office. In addition to daily operating, compliance, financial, and team management responsibilities, Nelson successfully completed projects including modernizing the family trusts, organizing a RFP processes to identify professional investment managers, recruiting investment committee members, recruiting independent board directors and guiding the family members through a process of reformulating and recommitting to the objectives for the family’s charitable foundation.


Focus Areas
  • A core focus on the evolution of a family’s quantitative (financial) and qualitative (human) capitals, ensuring both wealth preservation and enhancement of human resources in the family.
  • Stewardship: Guiding the family in ownership matters, ensuring responsible and effective stewardship of assets.
  • Family Dynamics: Nurturing family relationships and aligning family goals with the family office's mission.
  • Management/Operations: Overseeing the day-to-day management and operations of the family office with efficiency and strategic insight.
  • Cultural Proficiency: Leveraging experience with Asian and Western cultures to tailor solutions that respect and integrate diverse cultural perspectives.
  • Adaptive Solutions: Customizing approaches to fit the family office’s stage of development, personality, and size, ensuring scalable and flexible governance structures.
  • Co-creation: Collaborating closely with family members and stakeholders to co-create structures, frameworks, and processes that foster performance and collaboration.
Skills
  • Solution Creation: A generative thinker who specializes in crafting collaborative solutions, ensuring that every strategy is both innovative and actionable.
  • Organizational Excellence: Known for thoroughness and rigor, with an exceptional ability to organize complex information and processes for clarity and efficiency.
  • Facilitation Prowess: An effective facilitator who brings people together, guiding them towards shared goals and understanding.
  • People Development: Skilled at identifying and nurturing talent, with a keen ability to bring out the best in both family members and professional team members.
  • Family Office Expertise: Possesses depth and breadth of experience across all areas of family office functions, from governance to investment portfolio monitoring.
  • Equally adept at directly developing tailored solutions and facilitating collaborative efforts to achieve the family's objectives.
Education
  • Nelson holds a Bachelors of Art in Architecture degree from Lehigh University, U.S.A.