Board Committees

Mr Lee, aged 82, was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director in October 2012 and he is also the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee of the Company. Mr Lee is an independent non-executive director of a subsidiary of the Group.

Previously, Mr Lee served as the Chief Executive Officer of CSX World Terminals Hong Kong Limited and ATL Logistics Centre Hong Kong Limited. He has garnered over 40 years of experience in the shipping and logistics industry, including 15 years of international operating and management experiences in the United States, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.

Mr Lee also served as Chairman of the Hong Kong Container Terminal Operators Association. Additionally, he was a member of several committees: Hong Kong Business Advisory Committee, Logistics Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Hong Kong Port Development Council, Hong Kong Logistics Development Council, and the Hong Kong Sailors’ Home and Missions to Seamen (renamed Hong Kong Sailors Home and Mission to Seafarers).

Mr Lee is a trained accountant with over six years of experience at KPMG.

Mr Cheng, aged 43, joined the Company in January 2008 and was appointed as Executive Director in July 2009 and Co-Chief Executive Officer in January 2024. He is also a member of the Executive Committee, the Nomination Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee of the Company. He is also a director of certain subsidiaries of the Group. Mr Cheng is a non-executive director of New World Development Company Limited and the Chairman and a non-executive director of Integrated Waste Solutions Group Holdings Limited, both being listed public companies in Hong Kong. He is a director of PBA International Pte. Ltd. and a number of companies in Mainland China. He was also a non-executive director of Haitong International Securities Group Limited (resigned on 13 March 2024) (the company was delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 11 January 2024) and Wai Kee Holdings Limited (resigned on 26 June 2024) (a listed public company in Hong Kong). Mr Cheng is currently a member of the Fourteenth Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of the People’s Republic of China. Before joining the Company, Mr Cheng had been working as a research analyst in the Infrastructure and Conglomerates sector for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. Mr Cheng holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College in Massachusetts, USA. Mr Cheng is the son of Dr Cheng Kar Shun, Henry, the brother of Mr Cheng Chi Leong, Christopher, the cousin of Mr William Junior Guilherme Doo and cousin-in-law of Mr Tsang On Yip, Patrick.

Mrs Oei, aged 73, was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director in January 2016 and is also a member of the Nomination Committee and the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee of the Company. She is currently the Chairperson of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Hong Kong since September 2008 and she has been elected to the global board of trustees of Ronald McDonald House Charities in Chicago since 1 January 2015. Mrs Oei had worked in investment banking and wholesale banking for 36 years. She was the Vice Chairman, Corporate & Institutional Clients, at Standard Chartered Bank, Hong Kong when she retired from the bank in November 2014. Before joining Standard Chartered Bank in 2002, she had worked with UBS for nine years including service as Managing Director responsible for corporate finance and fixed income. During her service with UBS, Mrs Oei had regional responsibilities for institutional sales, fixed income, supervising a team in Hong Kong and Singapore which covered 13 countries in Asia (excluding Japan). Her team advised central banks and other institutional investors in Asia on fixed income investments and hedging strategies for interest rates and currencies. Mrs Oei had taken on a number of public service responsibilities over the years, including as a member of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel and the Takeovers Appeal Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission and a member of the Finance Committee of the Hong Kong Housing Authority. Mrs Oei graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London University, with a BSc (Econ) degree, majoring in Accounting and Finance.