Mr Ming an executive director and deputy managing director of CKHH. He was finance director and chief operating officer of the AS Watson group, the retail arm of the CKHH group, from 1994 to 1997 and group managing director of the Harbour Plaza Hotel Management group, the former hotel business of HWL, from 1998 to 2000. Since 2000, he has been a director of HWL. Mr Lai is also a non-executive director of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited, a commissioner of PT Duta Intidaya Tbk, and an alternate director to directors of HTHKH and an alternate director to a director of TOM. He was also Alternate Director to Mr Fok Kin Ning, Canning of HTAL from December 2016 to 28 December 2023. The aforementioned companies are either the ultimate holding company of HTAL, or subsidiaries or associated companies of CKHH of which Mr Lai has oversight as director of CKHH. Mr Lai has over 40 years of management experience in different industries.
