Dato’ Cheah Cheng Hye, Value Partners Group

Dato’ Cheah Cheng Hye is Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Value Partners Group. He sets the Group’s overall business and portfolio strategy, and is actively engaged in all aspects of the Group’s activities. In 2007, he led Value Partners to a successful listing in Hong Kong, making it the first and the only asset management company listed in the city. Dato’ Cheah has over 30 years of investment experience and is considered a leading practitioner of value investing in Asia. Prior to founding Value Partners, Dato’ Cheah worked at Morgan Grenfell Group in Hong Kong and had a stint as a financial journalist.

In January 2015, Dato’ CHEAH was appointed a member of the Financial Services Development Council (“FSDC”) by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, following a two-year term as a member of the New Business Committee of FSDC since 2013. In 2013, Mr Cheah was conferred the title of “Dato’ ” — an honorary title that recognises exceptional individuals — by the government in his home state of Penang, Malaysia.