Annual Report 2016 - page 58

D i r ec t o r s ' P r o f i l e
New World Development Company Limited
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Dr. Cheng Kar-Shun, Henry
GBS (Aged 69)
Appointed as Director in October 1972, Executive Director in 1973, became
Managing Director from 1989 and Chairman from March 2012. Dr. Cheng is a
member of the Remuneration Committee and the chairman of the Nomination
Committee and Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.
Dr. Cheng is the chairman and executive director of NWS Holdings Limited, Chow Tai
Fook Jewellery Group Limited and International Entertainment Corporation, the
chairman and non-executive director of New World Department Store China Limited,
Newton Resources Ltd and FSE Engineering Holdings Limited, an independent non-
executive director of HKR International Limited and Hang Seng Bank Limited, and a
non-executive director of SJM Holdings Limited, all of them are listed public
companies in Hong Kong. He is the chairman and managing director of New World
China Land Limited, a listed public company in Hong Kong until its delisting on
4 August 2016. He was a non-executive director of Lifestyle International Holdings
Limited, a listed public company in Hong Kong, up to his retirement on 4 May 2015.
Dr. Cheng is also the chairman of New World Hotels (Holdings) Limited and a
director of certain subsidiaries of the Group. He is a director of Cheng Yu Tung
Family (Holdings) Limited, Cheng Yu Tung Family (Holdings II) Limited, Chow Tai Fook
Capital Limited, Chow Tai Fook (Holding) Limited and Chow Tai Fook Enterprises
Limited, all of them are substantial shareholders of the Company. Dr. Cheng is the
chairman of the Advisory Council for The Better Hong Kong Foundation and a
Standing Committee Member of the Twelfth Chinese People’s Political Consultative
Conference of The People’s Republic of China. In 2001, Dr. Cheng was awarded the
Gold Bauhinia Star by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region. Dr. Cheng is the father of Dr. Cheng Chi-Kong, Adrian and Ms. Cheng Chi-
Man, Sonia, the brother-in-law of Mr. Doo Wai-Hoi, William, the brother of Mr. Cheng
Kar-Shing, Peter and the uncle of Mr. Cheng Chi-Heng.
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