Name
Geoffrey Kwok
Geoffrey Kwok
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bachelor of Arts/Economics, Yale University
Hong Kong
real estate
$2,900,000,000
775
#775 Billionaires 2019
Geoffrey Kwok is the elder son of the late Walter Kwok, former chairman of Hong Kong's largest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties.Walter died on Oct. 20, 2018 at age 68. He had been ousted as company chairman in 2008 in a feud with his two brothers, Thomas and Raymond. After his death, Geoffrey and his brother, Jonathan, took over Empire Group Holdings, a property developer that Walter started after he left SHKP.The brothers inherited Walter's direct stake in SHKP and are named beneficiaries of one-third of five large family trusts held by their grandmother. In late 2018 Geoffrey joined the SHKP board. He has worked at the company, helping to manage its hotel and serviced apartments in Hong Kong and China.
His grandmother Kwong Siu-hing is the widow of Sun Hung Kai Properties co-founder Kwok Tak-seng, who died in 1990.
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