Sabrina ho chiu yeng

The Next Tycoons: Hong Kong Daughters
From left to right: Winnie Chiu, Lili Ma, Sabrina Chao, Yen Kuok, Sabrina Ho, Gigi Chao.
Stylist: Ruth Du Cann; Hair and Makeup: Gloomy Kwok, Hobe Wong, Gary Chung. Credit:
Virgile Simon Bertrand for Forbes
GETTING THE DAUGHTERS of a handful of Hong Kong's business
elite together for a photo shoot was an idea easier in the conception
than in the execution. But after months of e-mails and phone calls,
amid the juggling of job, travel and family commitments, the date
arrived in early June at one of city's most chic cafes in the up-andcoming
Western district.
Then came the last-minute schedule changes: One rushed from a
construction site in China, then dashed off early to deliver a speech;
another had to leave ahead of schedule for an urgent meeting; and 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, the women swapped stories about their lives and work,
which run from services (Winnie Chiu heads Dorsett Hospitality, part
of father David Chiu's Far East Consortium International; Sabrina ho
chiu yeng, 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 online site Guiltless, which
sells secondhand luxury goods.
As is often the case among Asia's prominent commercial clans, a web
of ties connects the group: Chiu, 36, and Sabrina Chao, 42, are sistersin-law;
Gigi Chao, 37, and Sabrina Chao are cousins; Sabrina Ho Chiu
Yeng, 25, is besties with Chiu's youngest sister and has known Yen
Kuok, 26, since childhood; and Ma, 34, is friends with another of
Chiu's sisters.
But despite the close links, the women agreed that given their busy
careers and frenetic travel schedules, getting together was a rare
treat. --Mary E. Scott