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Directors and Senior Management Directors and Senior Management Executive Directors Mr KUOK Khoon Chen, aged 55, Mr HO Shut Kan, aged 61, has been has been an Executive Director of the an Executive Director of the Company Company, the Chairman of the Board since 1998. Mr Ho is an executive and the chairman of the Remuneration director of Kerry Properties (H.K.) Committee of the Company since Limited, the principal Hong Kong 2008. He has been a senior executive property company of the Group, and of the Kuok Group since 1978. He is is responsible for the Group’s property currently the deputy chairman and developments and infrastructure managing director of Kerry Group investments. Mr Ho is also responsible Limited, the chairman and managing for overseeing the operation of the director of Kerry Holdings Limited project companies and the projects of and a director of a number of Kuok the Group in Shenzhen, Chengdu and Group companies. Both Kerry Group Nanchang. Mr Ho is a non-executive Limited and Kerry Holdings Limited director of Eagle Asset Management are the controlling shareholders of the (CP) Limited, the manager of Company. Mr Kuok is an executive Champion Real Estate Investment director of China World Trade Center Trust, which is listed in Hong Kong. Co., Ltd. which is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Mr Kuok holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics Mr MA Wing Kai, William, aged from Monash University in Australia. 48, has been an Executive Director Mr Kuok is the brother-in-law of Mr of the Company since 2004. Mr Bryan Pallop Gaw whose biography is Ma is the deputy chairman and the set out in the section headed “Senior managing director of Kerry Logistics Management” of this annual report. Network Limited, the divisional holding company of the logistics, freight and warehouse businesses of Mr WONG Siu Kong, aged 58, is the the Group. He joined Kerry Properties President & Chief Executive Officer (H.K.) Limited, the principal Hong of the Company and a member of Kong property company of the Group, the Remuneration Committee of the in 1990 and was transferred to the Company. Mr Wong has been an logistics, freight and warehouse Executive Director of the Company division of the Group in 1999. Mr since 1996. He was a Joint Managing Ma holds a Bachelor of Science Director of the Company from 1999 to (Management Sciences) degree 2003. In 2003, he was elected as the from the University of Lancaster in Deputy Chairman of the Board and the the United Kingdom. Mr Ma also Managing Director of the Company completed an executive education and subsequently re-designated as programme, “Managing the Supply President & Chief Executive Officer Chain”, at Harvard Business School. in 2008. Mr Wong is a director of Kerry Holdings Limited, the controlling shareholder of the Company, and a director of Kuok (Singapore) Limited. He is also a director of China World Trade Center Co., Ltd. which is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. In addition, Mr Wong is the chairman and the managing director of Hong Kong Shanghai Development Co Ltd. and the chairman of a number of the Group’s companies in the PRC. He joined the Kuok Group in 1991 with responsibilities for the Group’s developments in the Mainland China. Mr Wong graduated from the South China Normal University in the PRC. 76 Kerry Properties Limited Annual Report 2009 Mr SO Hing Woh, MBE, JP, aged 63, Mr QIAN Shaohua, aged 53, has has been an Executive Director of the been an Executive Director of the Company since 2008. Mr So primarily Company since July 2009. In 2007, focuses on the business operation of he was appointed as a Director of the the Company’s property portfolio on Company and was subsequently re- the Mainland. Mr So has extensive designated as an Executive Director experience in the development and of the Company in 2009. Mr Qian management of commercial and was appointed as a director of Kerry residential portfolios. He was the Development (China) Limited in executive director and chief executive 2005 and as the chairman of Kerry officer of The Link Management Real Estate (Hangzhou) Co. Ltd. Limited from 2004 to 2007, executive in 2008. He is also a director and/ director of Sun Hung Kai Properties or the chairman of a number of the Limited from 2002 to 2004, executive Group’s companies in the PRC. Mr director of The Hong Kong Housing Qian received his tertiary education in Society from 1990 to 2002, property China and completed an international director of Mass Transit Railways advanced management programme at Corporation Limited from 1981 to Harvard Business School. 1990 and assistant general manager of Hutchison Properties Limited from 1972 to 1981. Mr So holds a Master’s Mr CHAN Wai Ming, William, aged degree in Business Administration 55, has been an Executive Director of from the Chinese University of Hong the Company since 18 March 2010. In Kong. He is a Registered Professional 2007, he was appointed as a Director Housing Manager, and a Fellow of the Company and was subsequently Member of the Royal Institution re-designated as an Executive of Chartered Surveyors, Chartered Director of the Company in March Institute of Housing, Hong Kong 2010. Mr Chan is also a director of Institute of Surveyors and Hong Kong Kerry Development (China) Limited Institute of Housing. Mr So had been and Kerry Properties Development a member of a number of statutory Management (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., bodies, including the Kowloon-Canton the Group’s subsidiary providing Railway Corporation Managing Board, real estate management services in the Town Planning Board, the Hong Shanghai. Mr Chan has over 30 years Kong Housing Authority, the Land of experience in project and estate and Buildings Advisory Committee, management in both private and the Long Term Housing Strategy public sectors, over 10 years of which Review Committee and the Corruption were in China projects. Mr Chan is Prevention Advisory Committee of a Fellow Member of both the Royal the Independent Commission Against Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Corruption. Currently, he is a member the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors of The Hong Kong Housing Society. and a Registered Real Estate Appraiser in China. Mr Chan holds a Master of Science degree in International Real Estate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Kerry Properties Limited Annual Report 2009 77 Directors and Senior Management Independent Non-Executive Directors Mr KU Moon Lun, aged 59, has Ms WONG Yu Pok, Marina, JP, aged been an Independent Non-executive 61, has been an Independent Non- Director of the Company and a executive Director and a member member of the Audit Committee of the Audit Committee and the and the Remuneration Committee Remuneration Committee of the of the Company since 2007. Mr Ku Company since 2008. She had been has over 30 years of experience in with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over the real estate industry. He was the 30 years specializing in China tax and executive director of Davis Langdon business advisory services, and has and Seah International and chairman extensive experience in advising both of Davis Langdon and Seah Hong Hong Kong and foreign investors in Kong Limited, Premas Hong Kong the structuring of their businesses Limited and icFox International. Mr Ku and investments in the PRC. Ms is now an independent non-executive Wong joined Tricor Services Limited director of Ascott Residence Trust as a director from 2004 to 2006 after Management Limited in Singapore her retirement as a partner from and Lai Fung Holdings Limited, a PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2004. Ms listed company in Hong Kong. He is Wong is now an independent non- a member of the Hospital Governing executive director of Hong Kong Committee of Tuen Mun Hospital, Ferry (Holdings) Company Limited, a Hong Kong Hospital Authority. Mr Ku listed company in Hong Kong. She is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute is a Fellow Member of the Hong of Surveyors. Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Mr LAU Ling Fai, Herald, aged 69, has been an Independent Non- executive Director of the Company Non-Executive Director since 2003. He is now the chairman of the Audit Committee of the Company Mr TSE Kai Chi, aged 46, has been and a member of the Remuneration a Non-executive Director of the Committee of the Company. Mr Lau Company and a member of the has been practising as a certified public Audit Committee of the Company accountant in Hong Kong for over 30 since 2005. Mr Tse is a senior finance years and has extensive experience executive and currently heads the in auditing, finance, taxation and accounting function of Kerry Holdings management. He was a partner in Limited, the controlling shareholder of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong the Company. Mr Tse is a graduate of until his retirement in 2001. He is an the London School of Economics and independent non-executive director Political Science, University of London, of Wheelock Properties Limited, a and he is qualified as a Chartered listed company in Hong Kong, and an Accountant and Associate Corporate independent director of China World Treasurer in England. He has over 20 Trade Center Co., Ltd. which is listed years of experience in accounting on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. and finance and worked in the audit Mr Lau is a Fellow of each of The and banking industry prior to joining Institute of Chartered Accountants the Kerry Group in 1994. From 2001 in England and Wales and the Hong to 2004, Mr Tse served as the group Kong Institute of Certified Public financial controller of SCMP Group Accountants.
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