Simon Murray, Shareholder and Executive Chairman

He lived in Asia for over 40 years, 14 of which were spent with the Jardine Matheson Group, which designed the business activity and the commercial strategy.
Later, he founded the consulting firm 'Davenham Investments', in joint venture with NM Rothschild, has sold the shares and became the CEO of the group Hutchison Whampoa in 1984, a position he held for 9 years.
And 'considered the pioneer' which paved the way for the Hutchison Group in the mobile business and negotiated the rights to develop ORANGE, now the leading European network of NCPs.
Simon Murray has co-founded Distacom Holding, which invested in the mobile telecom operators such Madacom, Spice Telecom India, Hong Kong Sunday, Papa New Guinea, New Zealand, Japan, and other regions of African and Central America.
Simon Murray is chairman or member of the Boarding Management of several multinationals, including Vodafone Plc, Hong Kong Electric, Hong Kong International Terminals, Husky Oil of Canada and Asia Satellite Telecommunications.
From 1993 to 1998, he was the Executive Chairman for the Asia-Pacific sector of the Deutsche Bank Group.
He is currently president or director of a number of companies including Glencore, Cheung Kong Holdings, Compagnie Financiere Richemont SA, Vivendi, Hermés Int., Asia Chairman of Corporate Finance, Ltd Huawei, China Petroleum.