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Aside from being the executive director and chairman of PCCW Limited, Chinese Canadian Richard Li Kai also functions as Pacific Century Regional Developments Limited’s chairman. He was born in 1966 as the youngest son of legendary Hong Kong tycoon Li ka-shing.

Richard Li began his journey to success after he created Star TV, the first satellite broadcasting service in Asia.

He was a former student at California’s prestigious Stanford University and was dubbed by the local media as Superboy after he pulled off Asia’s largest corporate takeover in August 2000. Li’s company, PCCW, was able to wrestle with Singapore Telecommunications for a deal involving HKT that was worth US$28.5 billion.

Eventually, Richard Li gave up his position as PCCW’s chief executive officer on July 25, 2003 but remained chairman and executive director. The position was then taken over by Jack So, after he left the chairmanship at MTR Corporation, Hong Kong’s subway operator.

Furthermore, Richard Li serves as a World Economic Forum for Information Technologies and Telecommunications governor. He is also active with Washington DC’s Center for Strategic and International Studies’ International Councillors’ Group, the United Nations Information and Communication Technology Advisory Group, the Global Information Infrastructure Commission, and the International Advisory Board of the Center for International Development at Harvard University.