YAO Cho Fai Andrew

Andrew Yao Cho Fai is executive director, chairman and chief executive officer of Hong Kong Shanghai Alliance Holdings Limited. The company's 2025/26 annual report records that he was 60 that year, was appointed an executive director on 12 January 1994, became chairman of the board in July 1999 and chief executive officer in November 2015; he also chairs the executive and nomination committees, sits on the remuneration committee and serves on the boards of several subsidiaries. His public roles run in parallel with his business posts. The report lists him as a Hong Kong deputy to the fourteenth National People's Congress, having previously served as a deputy to the twelfth and thirteenth NPC; he is also a member of the Legislative Council for the commercial (second) functional constituency, chairman of the Shanghai Hong Kong Associations, vice president of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, vice president of the Shanghai Overseas Friendship Association, founding honorary president of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Association, chairman of the council of Lingnan University and a council member of Fudan University. The network links Hong Kong business bodies, Shanghai associations and local university governance. At company level he holds further listed-company directorships: the report records that he is an external director of China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company, a holding company of businesses listed in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore and Athens, and an independent non-executive director of China Railway Communication and Signal Corporation Limited and Kader Holdings Company Limited. On honours and education, he received the Young Industrialist Award of Hong Kong from the Federation of Hong Kong Industries in 2004, was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2008 and received the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2016. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in science and holds an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business. The report also discloses his interests held through Perfect Capital International Corp., which he wholly owns, and another company under his control.