Independent media for the global private client world
Wealth Office is a long-form interview series with the founders, families and private capital holders reshaping the world. Filmed in London's great rooms. Published across Western and Chinese platforms.
The guest's chairEvery Wealth Office conversation is filmed on location in London. The chair is the only seat a guest is offered.
The Wealth Office audience this week
Subscribers and followers across all platforms
Checked 12 Oct 2026. Updated every Monday.
What we are building
Wealth Office is building the independent media brand for the families and principals who hold private capital, and for the advisers, institutions and creators who serve them. Long-form conversations filmed in London's great rooms, published in six languages across Western and Chinese platforms, and organised into the ideas that shape how wealth is held, passed on and put to work.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record. New essays follow every new episode.
News
Briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and more. All news
Series architecture
Both series are filmed to the same production standard, in the same rooms, by the same team.
Editorial · Never sponsoredOne-on-one conversations exclusively with private capital-holding principals, authors and academics. The focus is their perspective, and how private capital is building the new world across business, technology, philanthropy and culture.
Exchange · Sometimes sponsoredTwo globally recognised leaders explore one subject where power, risk and long-term consequence intersect. Issue-led dialogue that stress-tests an idea or proposition.
Wealth Office X is where paid collaboration lives. It is always editorially led, never an advertisement in interview form.
The recurring questions
Ranked by how often each theme recurs across the episode library. Each theme has its own page that grows with every new episode.
In the chair
Every guest has a profile page drawing together their episodes, clips and the ideas they put on the record.
Behind the camera
The hosts, producers and strategists who make Wealth Office, in London, Hong Kong and Mumbai. Full biographies
From the comments
Real comments left under Wealth Office episodes on YouTube, quoted exactly as written. Collected weekly; a comment appears only after the team approves it.
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Hosts
Based in London, Michael is a close adviser to some of the world's most ambitious private capital holders, with particular depth across Asia's major business families and family offices. His work sits at the intersection of media, reputation and the relationships shaping this era of private wealth. He is Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, which produces Wealth Office.
About the seriesBased in Mumbai. Former South Asia Bureau Chief for the Daily Telegraph and host of The Diplomat's Beyond the Indus podcast, with over a decade advising UHNWIs and family offices across India and South Asia.
Based in Hong Kong. Moves between Western and Greater China circles in English, Mandarin and Cantonese, with long-standing relationships across Asia's family office and private client world.
Published in long, mid and short form
One filmed session becomes a long-form episode, mid-length clips and short-form cuts in English and Mandarin.
Collaboration partners
Wealth Office X places a firm's expertise inside a trusted, independent private client channel, with long-form authority, multi-platform distribution and content built for how AI now recommends people and firms.
Wealth Office Insights
Essays on private capital, family wealth and the forces reshaping the private client world, drawn from what Wealth Office guests have said on the record.
Episodes
Long-form episodes from both series, with an overview, key ideas and verified quotes for each.
Biography
David Ferbrache OBE is a British cyber security specialist and the founder and Managing Director of Beyond Blue, an Edinburgh-based consultancy that advises organisations on cyber security and resilience. He has more than 30 years of experience in cyber and information security, spanning national defence, professional services and independent advisory work.
Ferbrache studied computer science at Heriot-Watt University and later completed an MBA with the Open University. Before joining the Ministry of Defence he was a Technical Director at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. He joined the MoD as a civil servant in 1997 and held a series of increasingly senior posts, including Head of Cyber Policy and Plans and, from 2012 to 2013, Head of Cyber and Space. Beyond Blue's profile of him records that during his MoD career he created and delivered the Defence Cyber Security Programme, set up the department's first penetration testing team, ran the first UK-US cyber wargame and carried out the first national infrastructure cyber security review. He was appointed OBE for services to national security following the attacks of 11 September 2001.
In 2013 Ferbrache joined KPMG as Technical Director for cyber security, working with the firm's largest clients on defences against sophisticated threats including cyber crime and espionage. He became a Director of Cyber Defence Services in 2016 and, in January 2018, was promoted to Chief Technology Officer for the firm's cyber practice, overseeing technical services for financial services clients, including its ethical hacking team. He also served as KPMG's Global Head of Cyber Futures. His writing from this period includes "Ruthless and Rational Cyber Criminal Entrepreneurs" (2016), a review of trends in the cyber crime landscape.
Beyond Blue was founded in 2019 by Ferbrache and Paul Taylor CBE. The firm describes itself as a boutique consultancy that helps clients prepare for, respond to and recover from cyber incidents, with services covering organisational, supply chain and ecosystem resilience. Its work is mainly with boards and senior management in financial services, government and national security, and it has established a strategic advisory board to inform its thinking.
Ferbrache chaired Scotland's National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board, which guided implementation of the Scottish Government's cyber resilience strategy, stepping down from the chair in 2023. He is a Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and contributes commentary on cyber security, including articles for Entrepreneur UK on the position of small businesses. His awards include Personality of the Year at the Cyber Security Awards in 2018, European Business Continuity Consultant of the Year in 2022 and Cybersecurity Leader of the Year at the Scottish Cyber Awards in 2025.
Ferbrache appeared alongside Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, in the Wealth Office X episode "Cybersecurity in the Age of AI, Extortion & Exposure", hosted by Michael Macfarlane. He described the threat to family offices as largely transnational organised crime operating at scale, citing survey evidence that around a third of family offices experience a cyber incident each year. He explained how criminal groups are moving from ransomware towards data theft, extortion and blackmail, sometimes aimed at individual family members, and how artificial intelligence is sharpening their research and impersonation, from phishing lures to simulated voices and video. He also identified professional advisers as a possible route in. His advice was that cyber security cannot be left to IT alone: principals should help identify the assets that really matter, think through scenarios and prepare incident response, because reputational and personal damage is the hardest to repair.
Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe and David Ferbrache OBE explain why extortion, impersonation and oversharing now place family offices on the front line of cyber risk.
News
Weekly briefs on billionaires, family offices and private capital, drawn from Bloomberg, Forbes, the South China Morning Post and other leading titles, with context for families and their advisers.
About
Wealth Office is an independent media platform built for the private client world, launched in September 2025 and produced in London.
What Wealth Office is
Wealth Office explores the structural forces reshaping the private client world: the rise of private capital, the globalisation of family wealth, the shift of ambition and innovation toward Asia, the psychology of intergenerational stewardship, and the responsibility that comes with significant capital.
The series speaks with the principals themselves: founders, inheritors and long-term holders of capital, together with the authors and academics who study them. It does not cover market commentary or portfolio management. It asks how private wealth is used, governed and passed on, and what it is building.
Wealth Office is hosted by Michael Macfarlane and produced by a dedicated team in London and Hong Kong. Full biographies follow below.
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, business-owning families, family offices, next-generation wealth holders, founders, and the lawyers, trustees and advisers who serve them.
Michael Macfarlane, Principal Partner of Michael Macfarlane Associates, is the principal host. Joe Wallen in Mumbai and Stephanie Chen in Hong Kong join as hosts.
The Wealth Office series is never sponsored. Wealth Office X episodes may involve a paid collaboration partner and are always editorially led.
On YouTube at @wealthofficeofficial, with clips on Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Substack, RedNote and Bilibili (as 财富办公室), and audio on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.
Hosts and team
A London-based team with deep relationships across Asia's family offices, and fluency in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
Wealth Office XWhere paid collaboration lives. Always editorially led.
Collaboration partners
Firms that serve the private client world collaborate with Wealth Office to own a theme: credible, independent, long-form video in front of the audience that matters, in the format AI-driven search now rewards.
The full collaboration brief, packages and audience data. Approved partners receive a one-time sign-in code by email.
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