Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu is scheduled to speak in a fireside chat on Friday during the third Family Business Summit in Hong Kong, as the city burnishes its role as the offshore fundraising hub and ‘superconnector’ between the Chinese mainland and the rest of the world.
The speech is the highlight of the conference, curated by the South China Morning Post and Blue Pool Capital, with UBS as the presenting partner. The attendees – by invitation only – comprise about 150 private business owners from the US, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, as well as Hong Kong and mainland China.
“As a top global hub for wealth management and a vibrant international finance centre, Hong Kong is the perfect stage for this Family Business Summit, bringing together the principals of Asia’s and the world’s premier family businesses,” said the Post’s CEO Catherine So, in her welcoming speech at the third annual edition of the conference on Thursday. “The day is made even more special as we mark the 122nd anniversary of the South China Morning Post’s first publication, grounding our forward-looking discussions in a rich legacy of trust and influence.”
Lee will be speaking in a fireside chat with Alibaba Group Holding’s chairman Joe Tsai, on the final morning of the one-and-a-half-day conference. Alibaba owns the Post.
Catherine So, CEO of South China Morning Post, at the 2025 Family Business Summit organised by the Post and Blue Pool Capital, presented by UBS. Photo: SCMP
The annual confab kicked off on Wednesday with a welcome dinner at Cloud 39 at The Henderson in Central. Singapore’s former foreign minister George Yeo spoke during a pre-summit chat over dinner.
The main conference day on Thursday featured a score of speakers covering a range of topics from artificial intelligence to geopolitics, macroeconomics, the business of sports and the wines of Burgundy, moderated by the Post’s Masthead editors. A number of Wall Street executives, including KKR’s co-CEO Joseph Bae and General Atlantic’s chairman Bill Ford, shared their perspectives about investing in China, moderated by Tsai, who is also the Post’s chairman. The contents of the entire conference are private, not for reporting.
