Simon Murray

Mr. Simon Murray is an entrepreneur and banker. He serves as director, chairman, and advisor of major multinational companies. He has longstanding business relationships throughout Asia and Europe and has been a Senior Advisor to Lightbridge Corporation since 2006. Mr. Murray moved to Hong Kong in 1966 and began working for Jardine Matheson. He later set up his own company, Davenham Investments, which was involved in project advisory work, in which N.M. Rothschild took a 50% interest. In 1984, he sold Davenham to Li Ka-Shing and became the Group Managing Director of Hutchison Whampoa, where he stayed for the next 10 years. During this period, Hutchison acquired control of Hong Kong Electric (at the time the largest corporate acquisition ever made in Hong Kong). He negotiated Hutchison’s entry into the oil business through the acquisition of Husky Oil (the largest fully integrated independent oil company in Canada). Hutchison began the enormous expansion of its container terminal operations, Hong Kong International Terminals (H.I.T.), during this period, including the acquisition of the Shanghai Container Port in China and the port of Felixstowe, the largest container port in the UK. H.I.T. remains the largest container port operator in the world today, controlling over 25% of the world’s container ports. Under the Chairmanship of Mr. Li, Mr. Murray led Hutchison’s entry into the mobile telephone business – pioneering cellular phones in Hong Kong and developing the world’s first nationwide P.C.N. system in the UK. – known as “Orange”. He was instrumental in the launching of AsiaSat, China’s first international launching of the satellite, and served as Chairman of its Board in its early years.