Mr Ming is an executive director and group co-managing director of CKHH. He has been chairman of the AS Watson group, the retail arm of the CKHH group, since May 2024. Prior to that, he was finance director and chief operating officer from 1994 to 1997 as well as group managing director from 2007 to April 2024 of the AS Watson group, 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 in addition chairman and a non-executive director of Hutchison Port Holdings Management Pte. Limited as the trustee-manager of Hutchison Port Holdings Trust, a non-executive director of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited (HTHKH), 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, former Director of HTAL from December 2016 to 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. He is Member of risk Committee and Governance & Compensation Committee.
