Mr. Lawrence Ho (Co-Chairman and CEO)

Mr. Lawrence (Yau Lung) Ho has served as our Co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer since December 2004. Since November 2001, Mr. Ho has also served as the Group Managing Director and, since March 2006, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Melco.

Mr. Ho serves on numerous boards and committees in Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. In recognition of Mr. 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. Ho was elected as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Persons 2006", organized by the Junior Chamber International HK.

In 2009, Mr. Ho was selected by FinanceAsia as one of the "Best CEOs in Hong Kong", "China Top 10 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. Ho was selected again as one of the "Best CEOs in Hong Kong" by FinanceAsia in 2010 and 2011. He was also awarded "Asia's Best CEO" at the Asian Excellence Awards by Corporate Governance Asia magazine in 2011.

Mr. Ho graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Commerce from the University of Toronto, Canada and was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Business Administration degree by Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland for his contribution to business, education and the community in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China.

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