About CSI

Mr. Yip Ka Kay

Mr. Yip Ka Kay

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr. Yip Ka Kay, joined the Group in 2025, is the managing director and responsible officer of GRE Investment Advisors Limited, a Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission licensed advisor to NM Strategic Management, LLC and licensed manager to QLA Investment GP SÀRL.

Mr. Yip is also an independent non-executive director of Shun Tak Holdings Limited (listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) with stock code: 242) and a non-executive director of VCREDIT Holdings Limited (listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange with stock code: 2003).

Mr. Yip has extensive experience in private equity, alternative and portfolio investment. He was previously the managing director and responsible officer of Bosera Asset Management (International) Co., Limited in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was a founding and senior partner of General Enterprise Management Services (HK) Limited, a private equity management company. He was also previously a vice president of JP Morgan International Capital Corporation. Mr. Yip is currently a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of EQT Partners, a leading private equity group in Europe, which works with portfolio companies to achieve sustainable growth, operational excellence and market leadership.

Mr. Yip holds an A.B. Degree in Economics (magna cum laude) from Harvard University, and is currently a member of Dean’s Asia Advisory Committee of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He sits as a non-scientific member of the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hong Kong/Hospital Authority Hong Kong West Cluster and is a member of the Routine and Expedited Panel of the Hospital Authority Central Institutional Review Board. He was chairman emeritus of the Hong Kong Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. He had also served on the Financial Services Advisory Committee of the Trade Development Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

Mr. Yip is the sole director and sole shareholder of the general partners of two close-ended funds. An indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Subsidiary”) is a limited partner in the said funds, holding a non-material investment with an aggregate current value of approximately US$414,000, representing less than 10% interest in each fund and less than 0.1% of the total assets of the Group as at 31 March 2025. The partnership agreements governing the funds have been entered into by the Subsidiary in 2014 and 2020 respectively. Pursuant to the terms of the funds, the Subsidiary, as one of the limited partners, is not involved in any investment decision making process or fund management process of the funds (including decisions to require further capital contribution or withdrawal of contribution). As the investment period of both funds has lapsed, the Subsidiary has no obligation to make any further contribution or commitment to both funds. Mr. Yip has confirmed that the management fees generated from the funds are immaterial to his annual income or net worth. In particular, the management fees paid and payable by the Subsidiary represents approximately 6.02% of the total management fees generated by the funds.