Sum Kwong Yip

Biography

Mr. Sum Kwong Yip, Derek is Executive Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of the Company. He is responsible for overall strategic planning and operation management of our Group. He also spearheads the planning of our product development and technological research functions. Mr. Sum joined our Group in September 1998 as managing director, mainly responsible for business management and strategic development. Mr. Sum has around 28 years of sales and corporate management experience in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining our Group, Mr. Sum held various management positions with multi-national corporations. He started his career in pharmaceutical industry with Sandoz Division of Edward Keller Limited in April 1988 and moved on to take up a management position with Watsons Pharmaceutical Limited under Hutchison Whampoa Limited in November 1988. In 1990, Watsons Pharmaceutical Limited was renamed as JDH Pharmaceutical Limited. Since then, Mr. Sum had worked in the Inchcape Group and he was the chief executive of Hong Kong and China of the pharmaceutical division under Inchcape JDH Limited back in 1998 before he embarked upon his entrepreneurial pursuit with our Group. Mr. Sum has been a member of the advisory committee of the school of pharmacy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong since June 2007. Mr. Sum graduated from Cardiff University (formerly known as the University of Wales) in the United Kingdom with an honorary bachelor’s degree in pharmacy in July 1986 and was accredited as a practicing member of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain in August 1987. He was admitted into the registrar as a registered pharmacist under the PPBHK in October 1987.

Research Interest

 Pharmaceuticals