Another Tycoons: Hong Kong Daughters

Receiving the DAUGHTERS of your few Hong Kong’s business elite together for a photo shoot was a concept easier from the conception compared to the execution. But after months of e-mails and make contact with calls, amid the juggling of job, travel and family commitments, the date arrived in early June at one among city’s most chic cafes from the up-and-coming Western district.

Then came the last-minute schedule changes: One rushed from the construction site in China, then dashed off early to deliver a delivery; another were required to leave in front of diary for an urgent meeting; and a third was due back in the office by 5 p.m., eventhough it was Friday. These aren’t ladies of leisure.

But over dessert and then champagne, amid oohs and ahs at jewelry and clothes, the girls swapped stories regarding lives and work, which run from services (Winnie Chiu heads Dorsett Hospitality, part of father David Chiu’s China Consortium International; Sabrina ho, daughter of casino magnate Stanley Ho, is involved in the family’s hotel business as well as holding down the CEO job at Poly Auction Macau) to property (Gigi Chao is vice chairman in the family’s Cheuk Nang Holdings) and from shipping (Sabrina Chao chairs family-owned Wah Kwong Maritime Transport) to tippling (Lili Ma, daughter of Ping A coverage Chairman and CEO Peter Ma, is director of Mayfair Fine Wines). Yen Kuok, youngest offspring of Malaysian-Chinese tycoon Robert Kuok, has online site Guiltless, which sells secondhand luxury goods.

As is often necessity among Asia’s prominent commercial clans, an internet of ties connects the viewers: Chiu, 36, and Sabrina Chao, 42, are sisters-in-law; Gigi Chao, 37, and Sabrina Chao are cousins; Sabrina Ho Chiu Yeng, 25, is besties with Chiu’s youngest sister and contains known Yen Kuok, 26, since childhood; and Ma, 34, is friends with another of Chiu’s sisters.
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