Career
At the start of his career, he joined the German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg as Executive Trainee for two and a half years, after which he was assigned to the liner operations Australia/New Zealand as Assistant Marketing Manager. In 1983, he joined Jebsen Group in Hong Kong as Assistant Division Manager of the Shipping Division, responsible for the Europe/Asia trade operations. He was later transferred to the Technical Division as Assistant General Manager in charge of the China sales operations.
During that period he spent an extensive period of time in China.
In 1990 he joined Jebsen’s Group Management as General Manager - Corporate Development. He was made a Board Director in 1994.
In early 1997 he was appointed Group Deputy Managing Director and then in 2000 promoted to his current position of Group Managing Director, looking after the Group’s overall business operations, strategies and development. In addition to his company functions, he has served on the boards of various non-profit organisations in Hong Kong, including three years as Chairman of the German Swiss International School’s Board of Governors.
He has also been conferred the honorary title of guest professor for the Business School of Jilin University in April 2013.