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Board of directors
Mr. Simon To, Executive Director and Chairman, Chi-Med
Mr. Christian Hogg, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Chi-Med
Mr. Patrick Wan, Executive Director
Mr. Christian Salbaing, Non-executive Director
Ms. Edith Shih, Non-executive Director and Company Secretary
Mr. Shigeru Endo, Non-executive Director
Mr. Michael Howell, Independent Non-executive Director
Professor Christopher Huang, Independent Non-executive Director
Mr. Christopher Nash, Senior Independent Director and Independent Non-executive Director
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Mr. Simon To
Executive Director and Chairman, Chi-Med
Mr To, aged 56, has been a Director since 2000 and an Executive Director and the Chairman since 2006. He is also the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, a member of the Technical Committee and the Complaints Committee of the Company. He is the Managing Director of Hutchison Whampoa (China) Limited ("Hutchison China") and has been with Hutchison China for over twenty-seven years, building its business from a small trading company to a billion dollar investment group. He has negotiated major transactions with multinationals such as Procter & Gamble ("P&G"), Lockheed, Pirelli, Beiersdorf, United Airlines and British Airways.
Mr To's career in China spans more than thirty years and he is well known to many of the top Government leaders in China. Mr To is the original founder of Hutchison Whampoa Limited's ("Hutchison Whampoa") TCM business and has been instrumental in the acquisitions made to date. He received a First Class Honours Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London and an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
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Mr. Christian Hogg
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Chi-Med
Mr Hogg, aged 42, has been an Executive Director and the Chief Executive Officer since 2006. He is also a member of the Technical Committee and the Complaints Committee of the Company. He joined Hutchison China in 2000 and has since led all aspects of the creation, implementation and management of the Company's strategy, business and listing. This includes the creation of the Company's start-up businesses and the acquisition and operational integration of assets that led to the formation of the Company's China joint ventures.
Prior to joining Hutchison China, Mr Hogg spent ten years with P&G starting in the US in Finance and then Brand Management in the Laundry and Cleaning Products Division. Mr Hogg then moved to China to manage P&G's detergent business followed by a move to Brussels to run P&G's global bleach business. Mr Hogg received a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from the University of Tennessee.
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Mr. Patrick Wan
Executive Director
Mr Wan, aged 48, has been an Executive Director since 2006. He joined Hutchison China in 1988 and is currently its Chief Financial Officer. Mr Wan has been heavily involved in financial due diligence, financial integration and the financial management of the Company's businesses. In addition, Mr Wan has been responsible for setting up various Hutchison China joint ventures, group restructurings and China operations.
Prior to joining Hutchison China, Mr Wan spent five years with Price Waterhouse as an auditor. Mr Wan is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
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Mr. Christian Salbaing
Non-executive Director
Mr Salbaing, aged 58, has been a Non-executive Director since 2006. He is the Deputy Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa (Europe) Limited, European headquarters company of Hutchison Whampoa for its businesses in Europe. Mr Salbaing was previously a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, an international law firm. Mr Salbaing represents Hutchison Whampoa's businesses across Europe, in particular with the European Commission and member governments and in relation to regulatory and public affairs matters. He was appointed to the ITU Telecom Board for a three-year term in June 2005.
Mr Salbaing received an LL.L degree in Civil Law from the University of Montreal and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Francisco in 1974. He is a member of the Bars of Quebec, California and Paris.
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Ms. Edith Shih
Non-executive Director and Company Secretary
Ms Shih, aged 56, has been a Non-executive Director since 2006 and the Company Secretary since 2000. She is also a member of the Complaints Committee of the Company. She is the Head Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of Hutchison Whampoa. She is also an Executive Director of Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited, a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, and of Hutchison International Limited, as well as Director and Company Secretary of numerous companies in the Hutchison Whampoa group. Ms Shih has been employed by Hutchison Whampoa since 1991 and oversees all legal regulatory and corporate secretarial affairs of the Hutchison Whampoa group.
Ms Shih received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education and a Master of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines and a Master of Arts degree and a Master of Education degree from Columbia University, New York. Ms Shih is a qualified solicitor in Hong Kong, England and Wales and Victoria, Australia and is also a Fellow of both The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries.
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Mr. Shigeru Endo
Non-executive Director
Mr Endo, aged 73, has been a Non-executive Director since 2008. He is Chief Executive Officer and a director of Hutchison Whampoa Japan K.K., an Executive Director of Hutchison Harbour Ring Limited (a company listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and a subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited), and a manager (equivalent to director in the UK) of Hutchison Europe Telecommunications S.à r.l. He is also a director of Axwood Developments Limited, Hutchison Whampoa Japan Limited, Infomart Corporation and PRD Electronics Limited and was a director of TRY Electronics Japan Ltd. from 2002 to 2006. He worked for over 40 years with Mitsui, where he became Senior Executive Managing Director and a member of the main board of Mitsui and Company Ltd.
Mr Endo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Keio University. During his career, Mr Endo, a Japanese citizen and fluent English and Mandarin speaker, has managed large-scale business operations in Japan, China and the United States.
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Mr. Michael Howell
Independent Non-executive Director
Mr Howell, aged 60, has been an Independent Non-executive Director since 2006. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee, a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Complaints Committee of the Company. Until 2006, he was Chief Executive Officer of tie (Transport Initiatives Edinburgh) Ltd., a company responsible for over £1.5 billion in transportation projects in Scotland including a new tram system and an airport rail link for Edinburgh. Mr Howell's thirty year career has been primarily in manufacturing, distribution and transportation services where, after beginning his career at British Leyland, Mr Howell went on to hold senior positions at Cummins Engine and General Electric in the USA and Europe. Mr Howell holds multiple directorships in both private and public companies in Europe and the USA. He is the current Chairman of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and chairman of Evo Electric Limited ("EEL").
Mr Howell has received a Masters degree in Economics/Engineering from Trinity College, Cambridge and MBAs from INSEAD and Harvard University.
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Professor Christopher Huang
Independent Non-executive Director
Professor Huang, aged 57, has been an Independent Non-executive Director since 2006. He is also the Chairman of the Technical Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Company. He is currently Professor of Cell Physiology, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine at New Hall, University of Cambridge, U.K. Professor Huang spent over twenty years in academia and research in the field of cellular and systems physiology. He has authored over 200 publications in the form of monographs, books, papers and articles whilst pursuing research collaborations with major pharmaceutical companies and holding editorships of Biological Reviews and the Journal of Physiology.
Professor Huang completed his Bachelor's degrees in Physiological Sciences (B.A.), and in Clinical Medicine (B.M., B.Ch.) at The Queen's College, Oxford, and his postgraduate (Ph.D.) degree at the University of Cambridge. He has also been awarded higher medical (D.M.) and scientific (D.Sc.) degrees by both Oxford and Cambridge.
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Mr. Christopher Nash
Senior Independent Director and
Independent Non-executive Director
Mr Nash, aged 49, has been an Independent Non-executive Director since 2006 and was appointed as Senior Independent Director in September 2006. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company. He was most recently chief executive of Hydrodec Group plc (listed on AIM) and is a Non-executive Director of NTR plc and EEL. Mr Nash has had a twenty-eight year business career during which he was Senior Vice President and Group Head of Strategy and Corporate Finance at Global Crossing Ltd., where he also served on the management board and several divisional boards. In the mid-1990s he was Group Head of Corporate Finance at Cable &Wireless Plc., and before that a director of North West Water International Ltd. Earlier in his career Mr Nash worked for S.G.Warburg and Co.Ltd. and also spent a period in the venture capital sector. During his career, Mr Nash has spent significant periods of time in Asia.
Mr Nash received a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and an MBA from Manchester Business School.
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