Meet James Wong, Executive Director of Hon Kwok Land Investment and The Chinney Group

Meet James Wong, Executive Director of Hon Kwok Land Investment and The Chinney Group
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Meet James, a real estate leader, a lawyer, and an engineer who's passionate about property technology and urban sustainability!

About

UPDATE: Due to the current pandemic situation, please note the event date is not confirmed yet. Participants can still apply in the meantime. Our team will be in touch when it's confirmed.

James Wong is the Executive Director of the Hon Kwok Land Investment Co. Ltd. and also the Chinney Group. The Group’s four publicly listed Hong Kong subsidiaries: Hon Kwok Land (0160.hk), Chinney Investments (0216.hk), Chinney Alliance (0385.hk), and Chinney Kin Wing (1556.hk) are focused on high-tech Engineering, Construction, Trading, Investments, and Real Estate.  The businesses range from building their own 80-storey Hon Kwok Tower in Shenzhen to installing the air traffic control radar at the Hong Kong Airport to distributing the JCoNat disinfectant.  This family business was founded by his great grandfather in Nanjing in the 1920’s to build China’s railway system.

He is a ULI full member and Corporate member. He has served on the Hong Kong Executive Committee, and is currently a Global Governing Trustee.  He is also Chair of the organizing committee ULI GBA Council.

He split his childhood between the US, Canada, and Hong Kong. After graduating from the University of Washington with his BA in 1984, he went on to earn a Master’s Degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in Information Systems Engineering as well as a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.  He is a Phi Kappa Phi member and an advocate for Lifelong Learning.  He is a member of the California Bar as well as a licensed California Real Estate Broker, WELL AP, and LEED GA.

Before joining his family business in 2010, James worked variously as a lawyer on Toyota’s eDiscovery team in Torrance, California, and as a tax lawyer at Baker and McKenzie (Los Angeles) and Price Waterhouse Coopers (San Francisco). He is married to Lisa (29 years) and has two grown kids.  

He’s served as a delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference for Jiangsu Province.  Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Florida Institute of Technology where he is also an adjunct professor teaching Business and Healthcare Law. He was formerly the Treasurer of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Southern California Chapter, as well as a Governor on the Board of the American Club of Hong Kong.  His MENSA memberships dates from 1980.  He has published and spoken widely on subjects including eDiscovery, Social Media Policy in the workplace, Privacy online, China for newbies, the One Belt One Road Initiative, logistics automation, and more recently, the surveillance economy. An opinionated traveler, James has ranked (pre-Covid) among the top 1% of reviewers on TripAdvisor.com.

Meet James Wong, Executive Director of Hon Kwok Land Investment and The Chinney Group
Dinner with James (max. 15 pax)

31 Jul 7:15pm

Limited spaces available.

Due to the current pandemic situation, please note the event date is not confirmed yet. Participants can still apply in the meantime. Our team will be in touch when it's confirmed.


Requirements

Cost per person is HK$50 (Full-time students aged 25 or below)/ HK$100 (General Participants) to support the running costs of our charity and our mission to make volunteerism mainstream.

The experience may be rescheduled or hosted online with consideration of the social distancing restrictions due to COVID-19. A new date and time will be communicated with the participants. Please also note that food & beverage will only be served if the restrictions allow. The arrangement will be confirmed closer to the event date.

All participants are required to complete a health declaration form before attending the event.

If you're joining as a donor, please note that donations are not refundable. If the event is rescheduled or hosted online and you can't make it, you reserve the right to choose another experience to attend within 6 months.

Please read our Late Cancellations & No Show Policy before applying: http://bit.ly/ta-noshow

Dinner with James (max. 15 pax)

31 Jul 7:15pm

Limited spaces available.

Due to the current pandemic situation, please note the event date is not confirmed yet. Participants can still apply in the meantime. Our team will be in touch when it's confirmed.


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