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IAG JAPAN NOV 2020 48 2020 POWER 50 PANSY HO CO-CHAIRPERSON AND MANAGING DIRECTOR MGM China Holdings Ltd GROUP EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR Shun Tak Holdings DIRECTOR STDM 共同会長兼業務執行取締役 MGMチャイナホールディングス グループ業務執行会長兼業務執行取締役 信徳集団(シュンタックホールディングス) 取締役 STDM CLAIMS TO FAME 評価理由 3 POWER SCORE パワースコア: 4,159 POSITION LAST YEAR 昨年の順位: 5 Arguably the most prominent of Dr Stanley Ho’s 17 children Has interests in two Macau concessionaires plus multiple other real estate and hospitality holdings • • • • スタンレー・ホー(何鴻 燊 )博士の17人の子供の中で最も著名な人物の1人 マカオのコンセッションを保有する2社およびその他多くの不動産やホスピ タリティグループの株を保有する パンジー・ホー (何超瓊) IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR , less than a week after former CEO Grant Bowie stepped down, MGM China’s Co-Chairperson and Executive Director Pansy Ho – also a 22.49% stakeholder in the company – announced she would be taking on the new role of Co-Chairperson and Managing Director. Part of a management restructure that also saw finance gurus Hubert Wang and Kenneth Feng named joint presidents – Wang as President and COO and Feng as President and CFO – Ms Ho said at the time that she would be spending more time on site and working much more closely with the management team on a “day-to-day basis.” The move to assume such a hands on role comes as no great surprise according to those in the know at MGM China, who suggest Ms Ho’s input into the strategic direction of the company has never gone unnoticed. Yet she does so at a time when she has also been working to increase her influence elsewhere too. In early 2019, Ms Ho made a high profile power play for control of Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau, S.A. (STDM) – the one-time holder of a monopoly on Macau’s casino industry that was founded by her father, Stanley Ho, in 1962 and is now majority owner of SJM Holdings. By forming an alliance with the Fok Foundation, the combined interests in STDM of Ho and her new partners reached 53% and allowed them to claim six of 10 available seats on the SJM board when internal elections were held just a few monthslater. That could prove telling, particularly following the passing of Dr Ho after a long battle with illness