공시 • May 30
Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited Announces Board and Committee Changes
Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited announced the following changes to the composition of the Board and the Board committees. Ms. Vivian Alexa Kao retired as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company and stepped down as a member of each of the Risk Management Committee and the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee of the Company, with effect from the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company held on May 27, 2026. Mr. Simon Chow Wing Charn retired as a Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company held on May 27, 2026. Mr. Roger Sewell Bacon has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company with effect from May 28, 2026. Mr. Bacon, aged 55, currently acts as a senior advisor to organisations both within and outside the financial services industry. From 2010 to 2025, he was a senior executive at Citibank, overseeing the investment businesses of the Private Bank for Asia Pacific. Prior to that he held senior roles at Union Bancaire Privée, the Jacob Rothschild organisation, JPMorgan, Jardine Fleming and Robert Fleming both in Asia and Europe. He has extensive experience within the alternative investment and traditional investment arena, overseeing multi-billion dollar cross-asset businesses spanning research, portfolio management, sales, marketing, product development and risk management. He is a registered professional for Types 1, 4 and 9 regulated activities under the Securities and Futures Commission, having previously been an Executive Officer under the HKMA licensing framework. He holds the Certified Private Wealth Professional (CPWP) designation, as well as HKSI Practising and Specialist Certificates in Securities and Asset Management. Mr. Bacon holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of London and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the same university. Mr. Bacon did not hold any directorship in any other listed public companies in Hong Kong and overseas during the past three years. Mr. Carlyon John Knight-Evans has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company and a member of the Audit Committee of the Company, with effect from May 28, 2026. Mr. Knight-Evans, aged 58, was the Alternatives Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Asia Pacific region and was an Assurance Asset Management Partner before he retired in December 2022. He is a regular speaker at industry events and was an executive committee member of the Alternative Investment Management Association’s Hong Kong Chapter from 2005 until late 2022. Having established Cyson Advisors in January 2023, Mr. Knight-Evans now serves a number of Cayman Islands and Hong Kong domiciled investment funds embracing systematic, multi-manager, macro, multi-strategy and equity related investment strategies as an independent director. Mr. Knight-Evans has had experience serving clients in the asset management industry since the mid-1990s, initially in the United Kingdom. He started his career with Ernst & Young in London before moving to Hong Kong with Ernst & Young in 2001 to help found Ernst & Young’s Greater China asset management practice. When he left Ernst & Young to join PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2011, he was Ernst & Young’s Asset Management leader for Asia-Pacific and a member of their Global Asset Management’s leadership team. In addition to providing audit services to the asset management industry, Mr. Knight-Evans also had extensive experience advising asset management firms on operational effectiveness, best practices in areas of corporate governance and internal controls, fund start-ups, and regulatory and compliance work. While focusing on hedge funds, he also serviced clients across other sub-sectors of the industry, including private equity, real estate and traditional asset managers. Mr. Knight-Evans did not hold any directorship in any other listed public companies in Hong Kong and overseas during the past three years. Mr. Knight-Evans is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He holds an MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. Mr. Antony James Edwards, an Executive Director of the Company, has been appointed as a member of the Executive Committee of the Company with effect from May 28, 2026.