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Peter Woo

Peter K.C. Woo is a Hong Kong business leader who chaired Wheelock and Company and its principal property subsidiary, The Wharf (Holdings), during a long period of growth in the family’s real-estate businesses. He joined Wharf’s board in 1978 and became its chairman in 1986. He stepped away from the chairman role at Wheelock in 2013 and retired from the Wharf board in May 2015, completing a planned generational transition to his son Douglas Woo. Our Hong Kong Foundation biography · Wharf chairman transition statement

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Woo’s career began in banking at Chase Manhattan before he joined his father-in-law Y.K. Pao’s shipping group in Hong Kong. In 1986, he took leadership of Wheelock and Wharf, whose portfolio included major commercial and retail properties such as Harbour City and Times Square. The business combined property ownership and development with ports, retail and other operating assets. That diversified structure formed the platform through which Woo oversaw the group’s commercial property interests. Wheelock corporate overview · Our Hong Kong Foundation biography

After retiring from the listed-company boards, Woo continued as executive chairman of World International Capital Group, the family’s private holding company, and has remained active in civic and education initiatives. Wheelock itself was taken private and delisted in 2020. His present role is therefore distinct from the former listed-company chairmanship recorded in many older biographies. Wheelock corporate overview · Forbes profile

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