HO Yau Lung Lawrence

Lawrence Ho Yau Lung is chairman and chief executive officer of Melco International Development Limited. The company's 2025 annual report records that he was 49 years old at the time and had served as chairman and CEO since March 2006, having earlier been appointed group managing director in 2001 after the company completed a full takeover. He also chairs the company's executive, finance and regulatory affairs committees and sits on the boards of several subsidiaries. Melco's lineage reaches back to a group founded in 1910 and listed in Hong Kong in 1927. The annual report singles out 2017, when Melco International became the sole principal shareholder of Melco Resorts & Entertainment — a Nasdaq-listed holder of one of Macau's six gaming concessions that develops, owns and operates integrated resorts in Asia and Europe. Ho is chairman and CEO of Melco Resorts as well, and a director of Studio City International Holdings, listed on the New York Stock Exchange; from July 2016 to January 2026 he chaired and sat on the board of Maple Peak Investments, listed on Canada's TSX Venture Exchange. Awards listed in the report include the Gold Award for Leadership at the 2015 Macau Business Awards, the Grand Award at the 2020 Industry and Community Contribution Awards, nine consecutive Asian Corporate Governance titles for Asian Corporate Leader Achievement from 2021, and a fourteenth recognition as Asia's Best CEO in that publication's 2025 accolades. The Macau government awarded him a Medal of Merit for Tourism in 2017. Public roles recorded in the filing include honorary president of the Macau Gaming Law Research Association, honorary president of the Macau Real Estate Association, director of the Macau Chamber of Commerce, and honorary president of the Macau Integrated Tourism and Leisure Enterprises Youth Employees Association. The report also notes that City of Dreams Sri Lanka opened in the third quarter of 2025, that The House of Dancing Water returned to City of Dreams Macau in a newly created version in May 2025, and that the group held roughly 56 per cent of Melco Resorts' issued shares through subsidiaries at the end of 2025.