Savio Kwan – Chuàngkàn Bālí

AUTHOR

: Non Executive Director in Alibaba HK Entrepreneurs Fund Board, Partner and CEO of A & K Consulting; Kwan was born in Hong Kong and is a UK national. He pursued an undergraduate diploma at Cambridgeshire College of Technology and received Master of Science degrees from both the London Business School and Loughborough University in the UK.
Savio Kwan was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Alibaba Group from 2001 to 2003 and served as Chief People Office for the year 2004 before stepping down from full-time executive duties and was formerly the Independent Non Executive Director at Alibaba.com since 2008, the listed B2B unit of Alibaba Group, until the company has been privatized in June 2012. In 2015, Kwan joined Alibaba HK Entrepreneurs Fund Board as Non Executive Director.
Kwan, has 30 years of global management experience, including seventeen years at General Electric and four years as the Managing Director of the China operations of BTR plc, a UK-based Fortune 500 company. Kwan also served as a board member of the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of York International, a leading global air conditioning system provider and a unit of Johnson Control listed in the New York Stock Exchange.
Kwan's career includes 17 years of high-level management at General Electric Medical Systems where he had responsibilities for sales, marketing, operations, business development, and establishment of joint venture companies in Asia.
At BTR, Kwan was Managing Director for the China operations of 8 manufacturing subsidiaries with some US$150M sales which he built through merger and acquisitions in the space of under three years.
In 2005 Kwan co-founded A & K Consulting with Malcolm Au and serves in the capacity of Partner and CEO. He is also a Visiting Executive Professor of Henley Business School, a unit of Reading University in the UK. Kwan also won the Alumni Achievement Award of the London Business School in 2011. In September 2017 Kwan was awarded an Honorary Doctor Of Business Administration by Reading University, Henley Business School.
In January 2014 Kwan joined the main board of British American Tobacco Group as Non Executive Director.

Articles from this author

Recommended / 2018-06-07

A Dialogue with Savio Kwan: Culture is Core Competitiveness That Cannot be “Copied”

Savio Kwan / Non Executive Director in Alibaba HK Entrepreneurs Fund Board, Partner and CEO of A & K Consulting

Standing in between East and West, with experience in a foreign company and a private Chinese company, having founded his own business but also doing well in incumbents, staying true to principles yet being kind in nature, Kwan is a perfect mix of various contradictions. He was able to enjoy a smooth career path in a multinational company, but also made his name in Alibaba, a Chinese internet company. Such background makes us believe that his unique experience should be shared and learned by more people, in and out of China.