Background
Gray, John Malcolm was born on July 28, 1934. Son of Samuel and Christina (Mackay-Sim) Gray.
Gray, John Malcolm was born on July 28, 1934. Son of Samuel and Christina (Mackay-Sim) Gray.
Gray was educated in Australia and at Strathallan School in Perthshire, Scotland.
He was the third generation of his family to work for the organisation. Gray was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996. At the beginning of the Second World War, Samuel Gray, his father, was manager of the bank in Calcutta.
He sent his family to Australia for safety.
Gray joined the London branch of the bank as a trainee in 1952 before moving out to Hong Kong in 1956. Further postings with the bank led him to India, Malaysia, Brunei, France and Germany.
In 1979 Gray was appointed as chief accountant closely followed by several promotions in the early eighties to executive director and subsequently deputy chairman of the bank. During this time he also served as chairman of James Capel, the newly acquired stockbroking arm of the organisation.
In 1992 he was appointed a director of the recently founded Household Bank Holdings in London.
Chairman of the Hong Kong Portuguese Development Board;
Chairman of the Hong Kong Club;
Deputy chairman of Harvey Nichols;
Director of the World Maritime shipping group;
Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996.
Chairman Hong Kong Port Development Board, 1990-1993.
Married Ursula Siong Koon, 1984. 3 children.