Peter Woo
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School
Hong Kong
real estate
$11,200,000,000
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#129 Billionaires 2019
#7 Hong Kong's 50 Richest 2019
He was the chairman of property developer Wheelock & Co. and its main subsidiary, Wharf Holdings. He stepped down mid-2015 and became 'senior counsel'Beyond property, Wheelock and Wharf control important telecom, port and retailing assets, including luxury department store chain Lane Crawford.Woo started his career in 1972 with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, where he also met his future wife Bessie, daughter of shipping tycoon Y.K. Pao. In 1975, he joined her family business in Hong Kong. The couple's son Douglas, heir apparent, chairs Wheelock.
Woo's flagship properties, Harbour City in Kowloon and Times Square in central Hong Kong, represent nearly half of his group's business assets.
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