Directors

Executive Directors

Mr. Lo Hong Sui, Vincent GBS, JP
Chairman


aged 61, has been the Chairman of the Company since 1997 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee of the Company. He has been appointed as the chairman of the Nomination Committee established by the Company in September 2008. He is the chairman of the Shui On Group which he founded 38 years ago. He is also the chairman and chief executive officer of Shui On Land Limited, which he established in 2004 and became listed in Hong Kong in 2006. 

Mr. Lo was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) in 1998 and appointed Justice of the Peace in 1999 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In 1999, he was made an Honorary Citizen of Shanghai. He was named Businessman of the Year at the Hong Kong Business Awards in 2001, and won the Director of the Year Award - Listed Company Executive Director from The Hong Kong Institute of Directors in 2002 and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2005. Mr. Lo was honoured with the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009” in the China Real Estate Category, and also been chosen as the “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 China” country award winner.

In addition to his business capacity, Mr. Lo has been active in community services. He participated in the preparatory works of establishing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He currently serves as a Member of The Eleventh National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Hong Kong’s representative to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council, President of Shanghai-Hong Kong Council for the Promotion and Development of Yangtze, Economic Adviser of the Chongqing Municipal Government, Honorary Life President of Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong, among his other positions.
 





Mr. Choi Yuk Keung, Lawrence
Vice-Chairman


aged 55, was the Managing Director of the Company from 1997 to 2004 and was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Company in July 2004. He has also been an executive director of the Shui On Group since 1990. He was a director of Shui On Land Limited from May 2004 to May 2006. He was appointed managing director of the Shui On Group’s construction division in 1991 and of the construction materials division in 1995. Mr. Choi is a member of the Standing Committee of the Ninth and the Tenth Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He joined the Shui On Group in 1973 and has over 30 years of experience in construction. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.





Mr. Wong Yuet Leung, Frankie
Chief Executive Officer

aged 60, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and was the Vice-Chairman from 1997 to 2004. He has been appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee established by the Company in September 2008. He joined the Shui On Group in 1981 and has been the managing director of Shui On Holdings Limited since 1991. He was a director of Shui On Land Limited from May 2004 to May 2006.  He is also one of the trustees of the Shui On Provident and Retirement Scheme. Prior to joining the Shui On Group, he had many years of banking experience with several major international banks in Hong Kong. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a Master of Arts degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom respectively. Mr. Wong is currently a non-executive director of CIG Yangtze Ports PLC and an independent non-executive director of Solomon Systech (International) Limited, both of which are listed in Hong Kong, and a non-executive director of Walcom Group Limited, a company listed on the AIM of the London Stock Exchange. He was also a non-executive director of Cosmedia Group Holdings Limited, a company that was delisted from the AIM of the London Stock Exchange in December 2008.





Mr. Wong Kun To, Philip

aged 53, has since April 2007 been the managing director of SOCAM Asset Management (HK) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and has also been appointed on 1 July 2009 as the managing director of China Central Properties Limited (“CCP”), a company whose shares were admitted to trading on the Alternative Investment Market (“AIM”) of the London Stock Exchange plc in June 2007 but has been delisted since 18 June 2009 after being acquired by the Company as a subsidiary following the offer made by the Company for all the shares of CCP not already owned by it and its subsidiaries. He is in charge of the property development division of the Company, performing property development, business development and commercial functions. Mr. Philip Wong has over 25 years of experience in construction management, investment and property development. He is a member of the Dalian Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McMaster University and is a member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
 





Mr. Wong Fook Lam, Raymond
Chief Financial Officer

aged 54, is the Chief Financial Officer of the Company.  He joined the Shui On Group in 1989 and was the finance director between 1992 and 1995. He was an executive director of the Company from 1997 to 2007. Upon the successful admission of the shares of CCP to trading on AIM in June 2007, he resigned as an executive director of the Company and dedicated his effort to focusing on the business and affairs of CCP. Following the privatisation of CCP, Mr. Raymond Wong rejoined the Company. He is one of the trustees of the Shui On Provident and Retirement Scheme. Prior to joining the Shui On Group, Mr. Raymond Wong worked with a leading international accounting firm in their London, Melbourne and Hong Kong offices. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and an Associate of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

 





Non-executive Director

Professor Michael Enright

aged 50, was an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company from 2000 to 2004 and was re-designated a Non-executive Director in September 2004. He is a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of the Company. He has also been appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee established by the Company in September 2008. An expert on business strategy and international competition, Professor Enright is a director of Enright, Scott & Associates Limited, an economic and strategic consulting firm, Sun Hung Kai Professor of Business Administration at the University of Hong Kong and director of Asia-Pacific Competitiveness Programmes at the Hong Kong Institute for Economics and Business Strategy. Professor Enright received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Master’s degree in Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Business Economics all from Harvard University. Before moving to Hong Kong in 1996, Professor Enright spent six years on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He was a director of Shui On Land Limited from May 2004 to May 2006. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Johnson Electric Holdings Limited, a listed company in Hong Kong.





Independent Non-executive Directors

Mr. Anthony Griffiths

aged 65, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since 1997. He is the chairman of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of the Company. He has also been appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee established by the Company in September 2008. He is also the chairman of trustees of the Shui On Provident and Retirement Scheme. Mr. Griffiths is also a non-executive director of Crystal International Limited, Crystal Investment Limited and Yangtze China Investment Limited, a company listed on the AIM of the London Stock Exchange and an independent non-executive director of Manulife Provident Funds Trust Company Limited. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Institute of Management Consultants (Hong Kong Branch) and The Hong Kong Institute of Directors. He received the Director of the Year Award in the category of Listed Company Non-Executive Directors from The Hong Kong Institute of Directors in 2006.





Mr. Gerrit de Nys

aged 65, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since August 2007. He is a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of the Company. He has also been appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee established by the Company in September 2008. Mr. de Nys joined Shui On Group in 1978 as managing director of the construction materials division and subsequently also assumed the position of managing director of the construction and contracting division, and was appointed deputy chairman and chief executive of the then publicly listed Shui On (Contractors) Limited in 1988. He left Shui On Group in 1991 and returned to Australia to set up his own businesses in home building and the leisure industry. In 1994, he joined the IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group assuming chief executive roles in its subsidiaries and had worked in its Thailand and Singapore offices. He retired from executive responsibilities of the IMC Group in 2006. He is currently the non-executive chairman of IMC Resources (Australia) Pty Ltd. and a non-executive director of Horizon Oil Limited in Australia. Mr. de Nys has extensive experience in construction. He graduated with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Adelaide. He is a chartered professional engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and The Australian Institute of Company Directors.





Ms. Li Hoi Lun, Helen

aged 53, has been appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director and a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees of the Company since August 2008. She has also been appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee established by the Company in September 2008. Ms. Li is a qualified lawyer in the jurisdictions of Hong Kong, England and Wales and New South Wales, Australia. She studied law in England and commenced practising law in Hong Kong in 1982. Ms. Li worked in private practice, with emphasis on property, commercial and corporate work with a China focus. Prior to joining the Company, she was employed as in-house legal counsel for the group companies, and an executive director of the property arm, of Shui On Group and took early retirement in 2005.





Mr. David Gordon Eldon GBS, CBE, JP
 
aged 64, commenced a career in banking in 1964 and joined the HSBC Group in 1968 assuming a variety of roles in the Middle East and Asia. He became chairman of Hang Seng Bank Limited and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He was also appointed as a director of HSBC Holdings plc in 1999. After 37 years of service, he retired from the HSBC Group in 2005.
 
He is now a senior adviser of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong. He is also the non-executive chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority, honorary steward of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, special adviser to the Korea National Competitiveness Council – Office of the President, past chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, founding member and past chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council, an international council member of the Bretton Woods Committee and an adviser to Unisys, in addition to holding a number of Government and community appointments in Hong Kong.
 
Mr. Eldon has served, during the period from April 2007 to September 2009, as an independent non-executive director of China Central Properties Limited (“CCP”). He was also an independent non-executive director of MTR Corporation Limited from June 2000 to May 2008. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Champion Real Estate Investment Trust, a Hong Kong collective investment scheme listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”), and a senior independent non-executive director of Noble Group Limited, a company whose shares are listed on Singapore Exchange Limited. Save as aforesaid, Mr. Eldon has not held any other directorship in listed companies in Hong Kong or overseas in the past three years.
 
Mr. Eldon is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB). He was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the City University of Hong Kong in 2003. In 2004, he was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In 2005, he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his contribution to banking, and awarded Honorary Citizenship of Seoul in recognition of his work for the city. He was awarded the Asian Banker Lifetime Achievement Award for 2005. Mr. Eldon is also a Justice of the Peace (JP).

 





Mr. Chan Kay Cheung

aged 63, is now a senior adviser of The Bank of East Asia, Limited (“BEA”) and the vice-chairman of The Bank of East Asia (China) Limited. He possesses extensive knowledge and experience in the banking industry. He joined BEA in 1965 and was appointed as an executive director and deputy chief executive of BEA in 1996 and 1997 respectively. He retired from BEA in May 2007 after serving it for over 41 years.
 
Mr. Chan has served, during the period from April 2007 to September 2009, as an independent non-executive director of CCP. He is currently an independent non-executive director of China Electronics Corporation Holdings Company Limited, Chu Kong Shipping Development Company Limited and Four Seas Food Investment Holdings Limited, companies whose shares are listed on the Stock Exchange. Save as aforesaid, Mr. Chan has not held any other directorship in listed companies in Hong Kong or overseas in the past three years.
 
Mr. Chan is a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, an advisory committee member on the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme of the Hong Kong Immigration Department and an international senior economic consultant of The People’s Government of Shaanxi Province.




Mr. Tsang Kwok Tai, Moses

aged 61, has been the chairman and managing partner of Ajia Partners Inc. since 2003 and the chairman and chief executive officer of EC Investment Services Limited since 2000. Prior to joining EC Investment Services Limited, he was a general partner of Goldman Sachs Group where he led the establishment of the Fixed Income Group in Tokyo and headed the Debt Syndicate Group in London. He served as the chairman of Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. between 1989 and 1994.
 
Mr. Tsang has served, during the period from April 2007 to September 2009, as an independent non-executive director of CCP. He is currently an independent non-executive director of Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and a non-executive director of North Asia Strategic Holdings Limited, both being companies whose shares are listed on the Stock Exchange. Save as aforesaid, Mr. Tsang has not held any other directorship in listed companies in Hong Kong or overseas in the past three years.
 
Mr. Tsang serves as co-chair of The Nature Conservancy’s Asia Pacific Council, a member of the Trustee Advisory Council and a councillor of the Copenhagen Climate Council. He is a trustee of the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research of The University of Hong Kong. He serves as a member of Brown University Advisory Council in Asia. He is also a member of the Chairman’s Council for the Hong Kong International School and a member of the World Presidents’ Organization – Hong Kong Chapter.




Senior Management

Mr. Lee Wing Kee, Stephen

aged 56, is an executive director of Shui On Building Contractors Limited and Shui On Construction Company Limited. He has been working in the Shui On Group since 1985 and has over 30 years of experience in construction. He is currently the vice president of the Hong Kong Construction Association and the chairman of its Building Committee. Mr. Lee serves as the chairman of the Construction Workers Qualification Committee under the Construction Workers Registration Authority and as co-opted members for the CIC Committee on Manpower Training and Development. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and is a chartered civil engineer.





Mr. Ng Yat Hon, Gilbert

aged 48, is the general manager of Pat Davie Limited, specialising in interior fitting out and renovation in Hong Kong and Macau. He joined the Shui On Group in 1996 and has over 20 years of experience in construction. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from University of Manchester and a Master’s degree in Project Management from University of New South Wales and is a chartered civil engineer.