Wai Kwong

Aged 63, was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director of the Company and BOCHK in September 2022. He is a member of each of the Audit Committee, the Risk Committee, the Strategy and Budget Committee as well as the Sustainability Committee.

Mr LEE is the Vice President (Administration) of City University of Hong Kong. Mr LEE has more than 30 years of experience in business and technology management gained in both Hong Kong and overseas. He was Systems Director of the Bank of America in Hong Kong. He has held key Information Technology (“IT”) positions in the financial, management consulting and manufacturing industries in the United States. Mr LEE was an Executive Director of IT of The Hong Kong Jockey Club (“HKJC”), where he served as member of board of management and had overall responsibility for HKJC’s IT strategy and innovation. Prior to joining HKJC, he served at The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited where he was an executive committee member and held a number of key positions, including the Group’s Chief Information Officer and Chief Executive Officer of two strategic diversification businesses, iCare.com Limited and Towngas Telecommunications Company Limited.

Mr LEE is currently an Independent Non-executive Director of MTR Corporation Limited and SUNeVision Holdings Ltd., all of which are listed in Hong Kong. He also serves in many governing and advisory committees in academic, professional and community arena. He is the Board Chairman of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited, the Chairman of Public Libraries Advisory Committee, an Ex-officio Member of Committee on Innovation, Technology and Re-industrialisation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and a Council Member of each of Hong Kong Management Association, Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency and Hong Kong Professionals and Senior Executives Association. Mr LEE is a Distinguished Fellow of Hong Kong Computer Society, a Chartered IT Professional of The British Computer Society, a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and a Chartered Engineer of United Kingdom Engineering Council.

Mr LEE obtained his Bachelor’s degree in 1982 and a Master’s degree in Operations Research & Industrial Engineering in 1983, both from Cornell University in the United States.