Mogul’s Wife Taking Over Property Empire Faces Her Critics
- Chan takes CEO role at Chinese Estates in difficult times
- She says she’s had a good teacher in billionaire husband Lau
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Chan Hoi-wan has encountered plenty of skeptics during her unlikely rise to the top of a $1 billion Hong Kong property company. She chooses to ignore them.
“There have always been critical voices,” the former entertainment reporter said in her first interview since becoming chief executive officer of Chinese Estates Holdings Ltd., the developer that her billionaire husband Joseph Lau transformed into a major player in the city’s real estate industry. “They are not the people I should care about.”
