Primary Job Title Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary Primary Organization Crystal International
Location Hong Kong, Asia Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male
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Ernest Lee was appointed chief financial officer in February 2014 and company secretary on 7 April 2017. Prior to joining the Group, Ernest was the finance director of Wrigley Confectionary (China) Limited, a subsidiary of Mars, Inc., which engages in the manufacturing and the distribution of confectionary products in China, from 2009 to 2014.
Previously, he had worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb (Hong Kong) Limited, the Hong Kong operations of a world leading pharmaceutical company, as finance director, and as finance director of Mead Johnson Nutritionals (China) Limited, its infant formula subsidiary in China. Prior to these appointments, Ernest worked for a number of renowned companies including Deloitte, Shell, PepsiCo Restaurant International (now Yum! Brands), Fletcher Challenge Steel (China) Limited and Campbell Soup Asia Limited in Hong Kong, China and Asia Pacific. He is a member of the Corporate Development Committee of the Company.
Ernest graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree with honors in business administration. He later obtained a master’s degree in business administration at the same university in 1988. Ernest has been a member of The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 1995, a fellow of CPA Australia since 2003, a fellow of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) since 2008 and a member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) since 2012.
