Solina Chau

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chau (周).

Solina Chau Hoi Shuen (周凱旋) (born ca. 1961) is a businesswoman in Hong Kong, a business partner in the Cheung Kong Group, and director of the Li Ka Shing Foundation. She is also a major stockholder in Tom.com, a publication and advertising company in the People's Republic of China.[1] As of 2014, she is listed as the 82nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[2]

Biography

Chau attended the Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong, where she sat the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination in 1978. Upon her graduation, she went on to further study in Sydney, Australia.[3]

Business career

In 1997, Chau set up Tom as a Cayman Island registered limited company as a minority (40%) partner together with Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong Holdings in a series of transactions which netted her an estimated USD 11 million in cash even before the company began to trade.

In 2002, Chau invested RMB ￥ 1 million into an interactive voice-recognition service provider, Beijing Leitingwuji Network Technology Company Limited (北京雷霆无极网络科技有限公司).[4] In September 2003, before the company was even profitable, she sold it to TOM Group for the sum of USD132 million. Its subsidiary TOM Online was then separately listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early 2004.[5]

Chau remained a 9.998% shareholder in Tom Online until 12 March 2007, when Tom Group announced an offer for the outstanding shares in Tom Online, to take the company private. Chau also has a 24% stake in TOM Group prior to the announcement.[6]

She was named one of Forbes Asia's 50 Women in the Mix in 2013.[7] As of 2014, she is listed as the 82nd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Solina Chau - Forbes.com". forbes.com. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women". Forbes. Forbes. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Kong, Winnie (February 2002). "Solina H S Chau - Class of '78". Diocesan Girls' School. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
  4. ↑ "Tom.com rings in acquisition". Media Finance, Issue 36. October 2003. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
  5. ↑ Yam, Shirley (10 March 2007). "Solina Chau's Yuan 1m may lead to control of Tom Group". South China Morning Post. pp. B12.
  6. ↑ "TOM Group bids HK$1.57 bln to privatize TOM Online". Jongo News. 12 March 2007. Retrieved 16 March 2007.
  7. ↑ "Forbes Asia's 50 Women In the Mix". Forbes Asia. Retrieved 3 March 2013.

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