Yu, Ka Ho

Biography

 Mr. Yu Ka Ho is Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of Gayety Holdings Ltd. Mr. Yu obtained a bachelor’s degree in financial engineering from the City University of Hong Kong in 2004 and a master’s degree in mathematics for finance and actuarial science from the joint degree programme of the City University of Hong Kong and Université Paris-Dauphine in 2007. Mr. Yu was an independent non-executive Director, chairman of the audit committee, and a member of the remuneration committee and nomination committee of the Company when the shares of the Company were listed on the Growth Enterprise Market (“GEM”) of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) in July 2011. He retired at the annual general meeting of the Company in May 2012 and was then appointed as vice president, business development department of Food Idea Group Limited (“Food Idea”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company on 1 June 2012, and is currently a director of certain subsidiaries of our Group. He is responsible for business development and operation management of Food Idea, as well as the strategic business planning and development of the Group’s new catering business. Prior to joining our Group, Mr. Yu was a financial analyst in the equity capital market division of the corporate finance department in CITIC Securities International Company Limited, from June 2008 to June 2010. From March 2005 to May 2008, Mr. Yu worked in eBiz Incubation Company Limited, an investment company, where he was responsible for leading his team to conduct research and analysis in the Hong Kong and the People’s Republic of China property investment industry. His last position was research analyst. From September 2004 to April 2005, Mr. Yu worked in Daily Credit Management Limited, a risk management and consultancy company as a business analyst.  

Research Interest

 financial engineering business administration