The AICFOHK Manifesto

An Open Letter to the New Breed of AI CFOs Based in Hong Kong (and Beyond)

To every CFO, finance leader, and builder of the future,

This is your invitation to begin…again.

We are standing at the threshold of an entirely new era.
One that does not ask for incremental improvements,
but a total system upgrade.

Artificial Intelligence has cracked open a portal
for a new way of being.
A new way of leading.
A new way of relating to work, technology, and self.

The old CFO identity,
stoic, solitary, spreadsheet-bound,
is obsolete.

What’s rising in its place is something
more agile, more alive, more aligned.

Welcome to the age of the AI CFO.

We are here to reclaim our inner child that part of us
still capable of awe,
still excited to learn,
still willing to play.

AI isn’t the hard part.
The tools are teachable.
The real challenge is shedding who you think you need to be to survive,
and becoming who you truly are to thrive.

This is the mission of AICFOHK.

We are building a community in Hong Kong for CFOs who dare to lead differently,
who see automation as an invitation to master the craft of
leading with joy,
choosing simplicity, and
creating wonder in people’s lives.

At AICFOHK,
we develop an evolution pathway.
We teach skillset to save time.
We train ethicalset to sleep at night.
We reprogram mindset to lead with purpose.

Together, we support each other to:
Automate with discernment.
Govern with empathy.
Lead from a place of wholeness

Adopting AI is an evolution
and it takes an entire village to uplift.

This is a reckoning:
Of what it means to be human in the loop.
Of what it means to build trust in a machine-augmented world.
Of what it means to bring soul back into the finance function.

If you’re ready to let go of the old scripts and write a new one,
welcome!

This is your community.
This is your evolution.

This is AICFOHK.

Ryion Pun
Founder, AICFOHK
Lead with joy. Choose simplicity. Create wonder.