Bio

George has been in senior management roles in real estate investment, investment banking, financial consulting and accounting in Asia and New Zealand with focus on real estate, financial services and consumer/retail sectors. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Canterbury and MBA degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Senior Fellow of Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and a Fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The Hong Kong Institute of Directors and Institute of Shopping Centre Management. George is Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of The Tracker Fund of Hong Kong, a Trustee of Urban Land Institute and an advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation Limited. He is a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct professor at the Department of Real Estate and Construction at The University of Hong Kong. He was a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of Charoen Pokphand Group, Thailand, a former member of the Policy Research Committee of the Financial Services Development Council of The Government of the HKSAR, and former governor of Infrastructure and Development Group at World Economic Forum. He was a Council Member of The Hong Kong Institute of Directors, a director of Asia Pacific Real Estate Association Limited and Chairman of its Hong Kong Chapter Board, a Council Member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Chairman of its Corporate Finance Committee in 2008, and a director of Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute in 2006-2011. George was named one of Harvard Business Review’s 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World 2019 and 2018, EY Entrepreneur of the Year (China, HK/Macau Region) in 2017, Businessperson of the Year by DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Award in 2015, Director of the Year Award under the category of Listed Companies – Executive Directors by The Hong Kong Institute of Directors and Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award by Enterprise Asia in 2011.