Receiving the DAUGHTERS of the handful of Hong Kong’s business elite together for any photo shoot was a concept easier from the conception when compared to the execution. But after months of e-mails and call calls, amid the juggling of job, travel and family commitments, the date arrived in early June at among city’s most chic cafes from the up-and-coming Western district.
Then came the last-minute schedule changes: One rushed from the construction site in China, then dashed off early to offer a delivery; another had to leave in advance of diary for an urgent meeting; plus a third was due back in the office by 5 p.m., even though it was Friday. These are not ladies of leisure.
But over dessert and later champagne, amid oohs and ahs at jewelry and clothes, women swapped stories regarding their lives and work, which run from services (Winnie Chiu heads Dorsett Hospitality, a part of father David Chiu’s Asia Consortium International; Sabrina ho, daughter of casino magnate Stanley Ho, is involved in the family’s hotel business while also holding down the CEO job at Poly Auction Macau) to property (Gigi Chao is vice chairman at the family’s Cheuk Nang Holdings) and from shipping (Sabrina Chao chairs family-owned Wah Kwong Maritime Transport) to tippling (Lili Ma, daughter of Ping An Insurance Chairman and CEO Peter Ma, is director of Mayfair Fine Wines). Yen Kuok, youngest offspring of Malaysian-Chinese tycoon Robert Kuok, has website Guiltless, which sells secondhand luxury goods.
As is also often the case among Asia’s prominent commercial clans, a web site of ties connects the gang: Chiu, 36, and Sabrina Chao, 42, are sisters-in-law; Gigi Chao, 37, and Sabrina Chao are cousins; Sabrina Ho Chiu Yeng, 25, is besties with Chiu’s youngest sister and contains known Yen Kuok, 26, since childhood; and Ma, 34, is friends with another of Chiu’s sisters.
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