Yuk Keung Ip

Biography

 He is also an Independent Non-executive Director, the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee of Hopewell Highway Infrastructure Limited (“HHI”). Mr. IP is an international banking and real estate professional with 33 years of experience at Citigroup, First National Bank of Chicago, Wells Fargo and Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, Asia and the United States. His areas of expertise are in real estate, corporate banking, risk management, transaction banking and wealth management. Mr. IP was named Managing Director of Citigroup in 2003 and Senior Credit Officer/Real Estate Specialist of Citicorp in 1990. He held senior positions at Citigroup such as North Asia Real Estate Head, Hong Kong Corporate Bank Head, Head of Transaction Banking - Hong Kong and Head of Asia Regional Investment Finance of Global Wealth Management. He was a Managing Director of Investments at Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific).  Mr. Ip is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of LHIL Manager Limited which is the trustee-manager of Langham Hospitality Investments, and Langham Hospitality Investments Limited, and a Non-executive Director of Eagle Asset Management (CP) Limited, as manager of Champion Real Estate Investment Trust. He is also an Independent Non-executive Director of TOM Group Limited, Power Assets Holdings Limited and Lifestyle International Holdings Limited. All the companies mentioned above except for LHIL Manager Limited and Eagle Asset Management (CP) Limited, are listed on the The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”), and Langham Hospitality Investments is a listed fixed single investment trust and Champion Real Estate Investment Trust is a listed real estate investment trust. In addition, he was an Independent Non-executive Director of New World China Land Limited, which was de-listed from the Stock Exchange on 4 August 2016, from December 2012 to August 2016, and AEON Credit Service (Asia) Company Limited, which is listed on the Stock Exchange, from September 2013 to September 2016. 

Research Interest

  Business Management, Infrastructure and Architecture