Dr. Lo Wing Yan, William
Independent Non-Executive DirectorDr. Lo Wing Yan, William, JP, joined the Group in 2014. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Board. He is currently the Founder & Chairman of Da Z Group Co. Limited. Dr. Lo is a Founding Governor and a member of the Governors and Executive Committee of the Charles K. Kao Foundation for Alzheimer’s Disease Limited as well as the Independent Schools Foundation Academy, one of the most well-known independent schools in Hong Kong. He has also been the Chairman of Junior Achievement Hong Kong since 2013. Dr. Lo started his career in McKinsey & Company Inc. and had subsequently held various top management posts at Hongkong Telecom, Cable & Wireless plc, Citibank, WPP plc, China Unicom, I.T Limited, South China Media Group and Kidsland International Holdings Ltd. He is renowned for being the founder of Netvigator, the largest Internet business in Hong Kong, as well as iTV (the predecessor of NowTV), the first interactive and on-demand TV service in the world back in the 90’s. Dr. Lo obtained a M. Phil. degree in Molecular Pharmacology and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering/Neuroscience, both from University of Cambridge. In 1996, he was selected as a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the Davos-based renowned global organization World Economic Forum. In 2000, he was selected as one of the top 25 Asia’s Digital Elites by the Asiaweek magazine. Dr. Lo has held numerous Government appointments during his career and is currently a member of the Cyberport Advisory Panel and the Advisory Committee of School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Dr. Lo is also at present an Advisor of the Our Hong Kong Foundation, an Honorary Advisor of the institute of Web3.0 HK and a Board Governor of the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital Foundation. He was a board member of the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority (now known as Communications Authority) as well as the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute and the Hong Kong Science Park. He was also a founding member of the Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange. In 1999, Dr. Lo was appointed as Justice of the Peace (JP) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for his contribution to Hong Kong. During the period 2003-2016, Dr. Lo was a Committee Member of Shantou People’s Political Consultative Conference. Recently, Dr Lo has been invited by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific to lead a task force for its Sustainable Business Network committee to look at financial inclusion leveraging fintech in the region.
Dr. Lo is an independent non-executive director of Jingrui Holdings Limited, Television Broadcasts Limited, and OCI International Holdings Limited, the shares of all of which are listed on the Stock Exchange. Also, Dr. Lo is an independent non-executive director of Regencell Bioscience Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: RGC). Dr. Lo was an independent non-executive director of Oshidori International Holdings Limited up to July 2023 and South Shore Holdings Limited up to November 2022, the shares of all of which are listed on the Stock Exchange. Also, Dr. Lo was an independent non-executive director of Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited up to December 2020, the shares of which were delisted from the Stock Exchange in October 2020.