There is a certain kind of professional that the global wealth industry genuinely struggles to produce, and struggles even harder to retain. Someone who can move fluently between cultures without losing their footing in any of them. Someone who understands not just the technical architecture of cross-border wealth planning, but the human texture of the families living inside that architecture. Someone whose life, quite apart from their career, has been shaped by the experience of crossing boundaries, geographic, linguistic, professional, and intellectual, repeatedly and without flinching.
Amanda Xiang is that professional.
As an Associate Director at Leo Wealth in Hong Kong, Amanda works at the front lines of one of the most demanding and consequential disciplines in contemporary private wealth: cross-border wealth and estate planning. Leo Wealth is a cross-border, independent financial advisory firm, and Amanda’s practice within it spans the full complexity of what that independence enables, from estate and financial planning to investments, tax, and insurance, all of it oriented around clients whose lives, like her own, do not sit comfortably within a single jurisdiction.
“Hers is a career that reflects, in almost every detail, the world her clients actually inhabit.”
The Education: Kellogg, Northwestern, and the Foundations of a Global Mind
To understand Amanda’s professional range, it helps to begin with her academic formation, because it is, from the outset, formidably broad.
She holds dual Bachelor’s degrees from Northwestern University, one of the United States’ most distinguished research universities, an institution known for producing graduates of genuine intellectual versatility. Dual degrees are not simply twice the coursework. They are a statement about how a student approaches knowledge: as something that rarely respects the boundaries drawn between disciplines.
She then pursued a Master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management, also at Northwestern, one of the world’s most respected business schools, and an institution with a particular reputation for developing leaders who are as comfortable navigating organizational complexity as they are managing financial and strategic challenges.
Together, the Northwestern undergraduate experience and the Kellogg graduate credential represent an educational foundation of uncommon depth and breadth. They also represent something else: a commitment, visible from the very beginning of Amanda’s adult life, to preparing seriously for a world where the most interesting and consequential work happens at the intersection of disciplines, not safely within any single one.
A Career Built Across Industries, Geographies, and Asset Classes
What is most striking about Amanda’s professional trajectory is not any single role she has held, but the coherence of the whole, the way that each chapter has added a dimension of expertise that the next chapter would require.
She began with work that brought her into direct proximity with China-based family offices, overseeing venture, partnerships, and private equity investments. This is foundational work in the truest sense. Family office advisory, at its most demanding, requires an understanding of how private capital actually moves, how venture and private equity investments are sourced, evaluated, structured, and governed. Amanda acquired that understanding not from the outside, but from within, operating in a role that required her to be responsible for it.
Alongside this, she held a role at Forbes Media in New York, one of the world’s most recognized and respected media and business intelligence brands. The Forbes connection is not incidental. It places Amanda in an environment where the intersection of wealth, influence, and global business was not an abstraction but a daily professional reality.
“These two early chapters, China-based family offices and Forbes Media in New York, established something important: a professional who could operate across the worlds of private capital and public-facing business, across geographies as different as China and the United States, and across the distinct cultures that each of those environments carries.”
The Digital Asset Chapter: Chief of Staff at Aspen Digital
Before Leo Wealth, Amanda held a role that placed her among a relatively small number of wealth professionals with genuine operational expertise in digital assets at the institutional level.
She served as Chief of Staff at Aspen Digital, a multi-family office specializing in digital asset investments with operations spanning Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. The significance of this is worth pausing on.
Aspen Digital was not a retail platform or a speculative venture. It was a multi-family office, which means it was managing the digital asset interests of multiple sophisticated family clients simultaneously, in two of the world’s most strategically significant financial centres. The Chief of Staff role in an organization of that nature is one of the most demanding and consequential positions available, requiring operational command of the entire enterprise, deep familiarity with the investment thesis and asset class, and the organizational intelligence to keep a complex, cross-border, multi-client operation functioning coherently.
Amanda occupied that role. Across Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. In the still-evolving and frequently turbulent world of institutional digital asset management.
That chapter represents something genuinely unusual in a wealth advisor’s professional biography: direct, senior-level operational experience inside the asset class that has most disrupted traditional assumptions about how wealth is stored, transferred, and structured across borders.
Leo Wealth and the Work of Cross-Border Planning
Amanda now brings all of that accumulated experience to bear at Leo Wealth, in a practice that is, at its core, about helping clients navigate the extraordinary complexity of cross-border financial life.
Cross-border wealth planning is not a niche. For a growing number of the world’s most financially sophisticated families, particularly those with roots in Asia and connections to the United States, the United Kingdom, or the European continent, it is the central challenge of their financial lives.
The questions involved are dense and consequential. How is an estate structured when assets are held across multiple jurisdictions with different inheritance laws? How are tax obligations managed when family members are resident in different countries? How do investment strategies account for the regulatory and compliance requirements of multiple home markets simultaneously? How does insurance planning function across borders that carry different legal frameworks for what insurance products can do and how they can be structured?
These are not questions that admit of simple answers. And they are questions that require an advisor who can hold the technical complexity of multiple jurisdictions in mind simultaneously, while remaining attentive to the human realities of the family sitting across the table.
Amanda’s practice at Leo Wealth spans all of it, from estate and financial planning through to investments, tax, and insurance, across the cross-border terrain that defines her clients’ lives and her own professional expertise.
The Languages, the Countries, the Cultural Fluency
There is one further dimension of Amanda’s profile that deserves its own consideration, because it is not incidental to her effectiveness as a cross-border wealth advisor. It is, in important ways, the very foundation of it.
Amanda is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and proficient in French. Four languages. Each one represents not just a communication capability but an access point into a distinct cultural and professional world.
And her geographic biography is, if anything, even more telling. She has lived across the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. Five countries. Each with its own legal tradition, its own financial culture, its own set of social assumptions about wealth, family, and obligation.
“This is not a professional who has studied cross-border complexity from a desk. This is a professional who has lived it, repeatedly, in some of the world’s most important financial and cultural centres.”
For clients whose wealth crosses the same boundaries Amanda herself has crossed, there is something deeply reassuring about working with an advisor who knows those borders not as abstractions on a regulatory map, but as the actual texture of a life fully and deliberately lived.
A Profile Built for This Moment
The global family office landscape of 2026 is one in which cross-border complexity is no longer the exception. It is the condition. Families are more internationally dispersed than at any previous point in history. Assets are held across more jurisdictions. Tax and regulatory environments are more demanding and more varied. And the human stakes of getting wealth planning right, across borders, across generations, across asset classes, have never been higher.
Amanda Xiang has spent her career, from Northwestern and Kellogg through Forbes Media and Aspen Digital and now Leo Wealth, building precisely the expertise that this moment requires. Her command of estate and financial planning, investments, tax, and insurance, her operational experience inside a digital asset multi-family office, her fluency in four languages, and her lived experience across five countries are not a list of credentials. They are the profile of a professional genuinely shaped for the complexity she is being asked to navigate.
In the world of cross-border wealth advisory, that kind of preparation is not common. And it is, for the families Amanda serves, exactly what is needed.
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