Mr. Chew Fook Aun, aged 50, has been appointed the chairman of the Board and a member of the Executive Committee of the Company with effect from 1 November 2012. He was appointed an Executive Director of the Company on 5 June 2012 and is a member of the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Mr. Chew is also a deputy chairman and an executive director of Lai Sun Garment (International) Limited, the deputy chairman and an executive director of Lai Sun Development Company Limited as well as an executive director of eSun Holdings Limited. Prior to joining the Lai Sun Group, Mr. Chew was an executive director and the group chief financial officer of Esprit Holdings Limited (“Esprit”) from 1 February 2009 to 1 May 2012, an executive director and the chief financial officer of The Link Management Limited acting as manager of The Link Real Estate Investment Trust (the “Link REIT”) from February 2007 to January 2009. He was also the chief financial officer of Kerry Properties Limited (“Kerry Properties”) from 1996 to 2004, a director of corporate finance for Kerry Holdings Limited from 1998 to 2004 and an executive director of Kyard Limited in charge of the property portfolio of a private family office from 2004 to 2007. The issued shares of Esprit and Kerry Properties and the issued units of the Link REIT are listed and traded on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

 

Mr. Chew has over 25 years of experience in accounting, auditing and finance in the United Kingdom (“UK”) and Hong Kong. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London in the UK with a Bachelor of Science (Economics) Degree. Mr. Chew is a fellow member of both the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“HKICPA”) and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He was also a council member of the HKICPA and its vice president in 2010. Mr. Chew is currently a member of the advisory committee of the Securities and Futures Commission, the corruption prevention advisory committee of the Independent Commission Against Corruption and the standing committee on company law reform of the Companies Registry, and a council member of the Financial Reporting Council, all being organisations established in Hong Kong.

 

 

 

Dr. Lam Kin Ming, Deputy Chairman, aged 75, was appointed an Executive Director of the Company in September 1997. Dr. Lam is the chairman of Lai Sun Garment (International) Limited, a non-executive director of Lai Sun Development Limited and the chairman, the chief executive officer and an executive director of Crocodile Garments Limited, a company listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. He was a non-executive director of eSun Holdings Limited from October 1996 to September 2009. Dr. Lam received an Honorary Doctoral Degree from the International American University in the United States in 2009. He has extensive experience in property development and investment and garment businesses, and has been involved in the management of the garment business since 1958. Dr. Lam is the elder brother of Mr. Lam Kin Hong, Matthew (Executive Deputy Chairman of the Company) and an uncle of Mr. Lam Hau Yin, Lester (Chief Executive Officer of the Company).

 

 

 

Mr. Lam Kin Hong, Matthew, Executive Deputy Chairman, aged 44, was appointed an Executive Director of the Company in December 2001. Mr. Lam is an executive director of Lai Sun Garment (International) Limited and Crocodile Garments Limited, a company listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. He graduated from the University College London of the University of London in the United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Science Degree and underwent training as a solicitor with Reed Smith Richards Butler, an international law firm. Mr. Lam is a founding partner of a Hong Kong law firm CWL Partners and a member of The Law Society of Hong Kong and The Law Society of England and Wales.

 

Mr. Lam has considerable experience in property development and corporate finance in Hong Kong and the Mainland China. He is the chairman of the Yangtze River Delta Region of the Hong Kong Real Estate Association, a committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (“CPPCC”) in Shanghai and a standing committee member of the CPPCC in Shantou, Guangdong Province.

 

Mr. Lam also serves as the honorary consul of the Republic of Estonia in Hong Kong, a member of the management committee of the Consumer Legal Action Fund of the Consumer Council in Hong Kong and a part-time member of the Central Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

 

Mr. Lam is the younger brother of Dr. Lam Kin Ming (Deputy Chairman of the Company) and an uncle of Mr. Lam Hau Yin, Lester (Chief Executive Officer of the Company).

 

 

 

Mr. Lam Hau Yin, Lester, Chief Executive Officer, aged 31, was appointed an Executive Director of the Company in April 2005 and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Company. He is also an executive director of Lai Sun Garment (International) Limited (“LSG”) and an alternate director to Madam U Po Chu who is an executive director of LSG. Further, Mr. Lam was appointed an executive director of both Lai Sun Development Limited and eSun Holdings Limited with effect from 1 November 2012. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Degree from the Northeastern University in Boston of the United States of America. He has acquired working experience since 1999 in various companies engaged in securities investment, hotel operations, environmental products, entertainment and property development and investment. He is a nephew of Dr. Lam Kin Ming (Deputy Chairman of the Company) and Mr. Lam Kin Hong, Matthew (Executive Deputy Chairman of the Company) and a grandson of Madam U Po Chu (Executive Director of the Company).

 

 

 

Madam U Po Chu, aged 87, was appointed an Executive Director of the Company in February 2003. She is also a non-executive director of Lai Sun Development Limited and eSun Holdings Limited. Further, Madam U has been re-designated as an executive director of Lai Sun Garment (International) Limited with effect from 27 November 2012. Madam U has over 55 years of experience in the garment manufacturing business and had been involved in the printing business in the mid-1960’s. She started to expand the business to fabric bleaching and dyeing in the early 1970’s and became involved in property development and investment in the late 1980’s. Madam U is the grandmother of Mr. Lam Hau Yin, Lester (Chief Executive Officer of the Company).

 

 

 

Mr. Lau Shu Yan, Julius, aged 56, was appointed an Executive Director of the Company in April 2005 and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Company. He is also an executive director and the chief executive officer of Lai Sun Development Limited. Mr. Lau has over 20 years of experience in the property and securities industries holding senior management positions. Prior to joining the Lai Sun Group, he was a director of Jones Lang Wootton Limited and subsequently Jardine Fleming Broking Limited. Mr. Lau is a director and a member of the Executive Committee of The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong.

 

 

 

Mr. Cheng Shin How, aged 46, was appointed an Executive Director of the Company in June 2007. Prior to joining the Company, he was the Regional Director of the Hong Kong and Macau office of CapitaLand Limited (a substantial shareholder of the Company). Mr. Cheng joined CapitaLand Group in 1999 and has been involved in CapitaLand Group’s real estate investment in Hong Kong, Macau and the Mainland of China. Prior to joining CapitaLand Limited, Mr. Cheng worked with CB Richard Ellis, an international property consultancy firm where he was involved in property valuation, development and investment consultancy. He has been involved in the PRC business since 1993. Mr. Cheng graduated with an Honours Degree in Land Management from the University of Reading, United Kingdom and is a Licensed Appraiser in Singapore.