Mr. Ho Gilbert Chi-Hang

Appointed as an Executive Director in November 2024. Mr. Ho is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.  He joined the NWS Holdings Limited (“NWS”), a listed public company in Hong Kong, as senior director in January 2018 and has been serving as an executive director of NWS since July 2018. He was appointed as the chief operating officer and co-chief executive officer of NWS in February 2022 and January 2024 respectively. Mr. Ho is a director and co-chief executive officer of Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited, a substantial shareholder of the Company. Prior to joining NWS, Mr. Ho was a director and/or senior executive in several Hong Kong listed public companies. He had also been the senior investment director of the Company and an executive director of New World Strategic Investment Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company), as well as a partner of an international law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP. 

Mr. Ho is an independent non-executive director of Asia Allied Infrastructure Holdings Limited and Kam Hing International Holdings Limited, and a non-executive director of Shoucheng Holdings Limited, all being listed public companies in Hong Kong. He was also a non-executive director of Wai Kee Holdings Limited (a listed public company in Hong Kong), up to his resignation on 26 June 2024. He is the Vice Chairman of the China Committee of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, the Vice Chairperson of the Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies, the Deputy Chairman of the Greater Bay Area Committee of CPA Australia, a member of the Hong Kong Logistics Development Council, a member of the Advisory Council on Career Development of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a standing committee member of the Youth Federation of Inner Mongolia. He was also a committee member of the Industry Advisory Committee of Insurance Authority from June 2020 to May 2022 and a committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of Shenyang from December 2007 to December 2021. 

Mr. Ho holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Sydney, Australia and was admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia and England and Wales and as a solicitor and barrister in the High Court of Australia. He is also a fellow member of CPA Australia.