CUHK Business School Beta Gamma Sigma

Beta Gamma Sigma

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    Overview

    The Beta Gamma Sigma CUHK Chapter was established in 2000, as the first chapter outside of North America, to honour academic excellence and to encourage personal and professional excellence among its members. The only scholastic honour society recognised by AACSB International, Beta Gamma Sigma awards membership to undergraduate students in their second year or above with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) in the top 10% and graduate students in the top 20%.

    Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the most prestigious recognition awarded to a business student, and the society further awards two veteran business leaders who embody its ideals through exceptional leadership as Chapter Honorees every year.

    History

    Founded as an American national organisation in 1913, Beta Gamma Sigma is the first national honour society in business. Originally a merger of three separate honour societies at the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois, and the University of California, the society only allows business schools accredited by AACSB to join. Beta Gamma Sigma currently has more than 580 chapters worldwide dedicated to fostering outstanding and ethical business leadership.

    Chapter Honoree

    2020 Chapter Honoree

    Angel Ng, CEO of Citi Hong Kong and Macau

    Mr. Peter Yan

    Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited

    Mr. Peter Yan is a pioneer and an accomplished professional in the information technology industry with over three decades of experience. He has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited since 2018, and has led the digital technology flagship of the Hong Kong SAR Government to develop innovation and technology as a new economic driver of Hong Kong through talent cultivation and industry development.

    Mr. Yan has led the growth of the Cyberport’s community by more than 50% in the past few years to over 1,550 start-ups and technology companies, while establishing various initiatives to engage stakeholders in the region including venture capitalists, global technology giants and leading industry MNCs. During his tenure, Cyberport has greatly contributed to the development of FinTech in Hong Kong, accumulating one of the largest FinTech start-up communities in the region. Under his leadership, Cyberport was awarded the “Excellence Award of the 2020 HKMA Quality Award” recognised by the Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA), commending the quality management developed and deployed at the organisation. He has overseen Cyberport’s expansion outside of the current PokFuLam campus to Tsuen Wan and the further expansion plan of its current campus expected by 2024.

    Prior to joining Cyberport, Mr. Yan was the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of SUNeVision Holdings Limited. The company’s market capitalisation almost tripled under his management and was successfully transferred from the GEM board to the Main Board on the stock exchange in early 2018. While there, Mr. Yan led the successful bidding of two additional sites to expand the company’s data centre business, and also built Hong Kong’s largest greenfield data centre in Tseung Kwan O and a brownfield data centre in Shatin.

    Mr. Yan has held various senior management positions in large consulting and information technology services companies including Accenture, Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited, and Computer and Technologies Holdings Limited. At Tradelink, Mr. Yan oversaw the pioneering development of the Electronic Data Interchange service, which marked the advent of e-commerce in Hong Kong, as well as the launch of world’s first two-way tendering system while at Computer And Technologies Holdings Limited.

    Mr. Yan is a champion of talent development and plays an active role in Hong Kong’s top tertiary institutions, striving for a better education for the next generation of tech talent. He currently serves as the chairman of the advisory committee of the MSc in Information and Technology Management Programme of CUHK Business School, and sits on the Council of Open University of Hong Kong. Mr. Yan is also an advisor for various programmes and projects for the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and University of Hong Kong (HKU). Beyond his work with universities, Mr. Yan also sits on the Financial Services Development Council’s Human Capital Committee and Talent Strategy Workgroup.

    As a distinguished leader in the digital technology industry, Mr. Yan also sits on a variety of committees, boards and councils of prominent organisations in the I&T sector, including the Smart City Consortium Steering Committee, the Institute of Big Data Governance, HKU’s Versitech Limited, the GS1 Internet of Things Industry Advisory Council, and the Hong Kong Computer Society advisory group, among others.

    Mr. Yan was appointed to be a Justice of the Peace in 2017 and has sat on various official public bodies in the past, including the Transport Advisory Committee, Independent Police Complaints Council, Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, and Registration of Persons Tribunal.

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