Mr. Lawrence Ho (Co-Chairman and CEO)

Mr. Lawrence Yau Lung Ho was appointed as our executive Director on December 20, 2004 and has served as our co-chairman and chief executive officer since December 2004. Since November 2001, Mr. Lawrence Ho has also served as the managing director and, since March 2006, the chairman and chief executive officer of Melco. Mr. Lawrence Ho serves on numerous boards and committees of privately held companies in Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. In recognition of Mr. Lawrence Ho's excellent directorship and entrepreneurial spirit, the Institutional Investor, a leading research and publishing organization, honored him as the "Best CEO" in the Conglomerates category in 2005. As a socially responsible young entrepreneur in Hong Kong, Mr. Lawrence Ho was elected as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Persons Selection 2006", organized by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong. In 2009, Mr. Lawrence Ho was selected by FinanceAsia as one of the "Best CEOs" in Hong Kong, "China Top Ten Financial and Intelligent Persons" judged by a panel led by the Beijing Cultural Development Study Centre, and was named "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" at Hong Kong's first Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards in 2009. Mr. Lawrence Ho worked at Jardine Fleming Group Limited from September 1999 to October 2000 and iAsia Technology Limited (the predecessor of Value Convergence Holdings Limited) from October 2000 to November 2001. Mr. Lawrence Ho graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in commerce from the University of Toronto, Canada in June 1999 and was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree by Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland in July 2009 for his contribution to business, education and the community in Hong Kong, Macau and China.

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