Board of Directors

Mr. Kwok, aged 66, has been appointed as an Independent Nonexecutive Director of the Company since December 2024. He is also a member of the Audit Committee, the Nomination Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Company. Mr. Kwok has over two decades of hospitality and real estate experience, as well as board and committee experience for other listed entities. Mr. Kwok’s prior experience was in accounting, investment banking, and corporate and financial management. After qualifying as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse London in 1983, he had over 10 years of investment banking experience with Barclays de Zoete Wedd in London and Schroders Asia in Hong Kong, where he was appointed as Head of Corporate Finance in 1991. Mr. Kwok then served as Finance Director of MTR Corporation Limited from 1996 to 2002. Mr. Kwok served as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited (stock code: 00045) (a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange) from 2002 to 31 October 2024, remaining thereafter on the Board as an Executive Director until May 2025 (The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited is the owner and operator of the Peninsula Hotels Group). He was also a council member of the World Travel & Tourism Council.

Mr. Kwok’s knowledge of international markets, accounting, corporate risk management and compliance is enhanced by his experience serving on prominent regulatory bodies such as the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange, the Takeovers and Mergers Panel of the Securities and Futures Commission and the Interpretations Committee of the International Accounting Standards Board. He was previously an Independent Non-executive Director of Swire Pacific Limited (stock codes: ‘A’ Shares 00019 and ‘B’ Shares 00087) and Orient Overseas (International) Limited (stock code: 00316) (both of which are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange).

Mr. Kwok is also currently an Independent Non-executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee, the Strategy Committee and the Remuneration Committee of Shui On Land Limited (stock code: 00272) (a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange), and an Independent Non-executive Director and a member of the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee of Wing Tai Properties Limited (stock code: 00369) (a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange). He is also an Independent Non-executive Director and the Chairman of Audit Committee of Hang Seng Bank Limited (a company formerly listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange).

Mr. Kwok is also a member of the International Advisory Council of Faculty of Business and Economics of The University of Hong Kong and the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee on Hotel and Tourism Management of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Mr. Kwok holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.