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Otto Poon Lok To BBS OBE (born 14 September 1940) is a Hong Kong businessman and the husband of former Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng. He is the founder, chairman, and managing director of Analogue Group of Companies. He was formerly the president of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, president of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, board member of Friends of the Earth, chairman of the Energy Advisory Committee, and member of the Council for Sustainable Development. He currently serves as a board member of Shun Tak Fraternal Association Cheng Yu Tung Secondary School, president of the Hong Kong Electrical & Mechanical Contractors' Association, and a director of Nanjing Canatal Data Centre Environmental Tech Company, a listed company in Shanghai since 2003. Analogue Group of Companies went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 12 July 2019.

Background

Poon joined the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department in 1956 and enrolled in the department’s second apprentice training program that same year. He studied electrical engineering at Hong Kong Technical College and graduated in 1961. He worked for an international company, then moved to London to earn his chartered engineer qualification. He married in the UK in 1968, returned to Hong Kong in 1969, and served as chief engineer at Integrated Electronic Group and its subsidiaries. He was later director at Eurotherm Far East Ltd. (1973–1975), then general manager at Swire Group (1975–1977), before founding Analogue Group in 1977. In 1988, Poon and his family emigrated to Canada and acquired Canadian citizenship in 1992. He was president of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (1998–1999), and held presidencies at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong Association of Energy Engineers, and the Association of Energy Engineers (USA) between 2002 and 2009.

In the public sector, he served on multiple committees including the Advisory Council on the Environment (1998–2005), the Energy Advisory Committee (chairman from 2000 to 2006), and the Council for Sustainable Development (2003–2009), among others. He also ran in the 2000 Election Committee engineering sub-sector election. Poon was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1996 and the Bronze Bauhinia Star (BBS) in 2003. He was elected to the 2007 Chief Executive Election Committee in the 2006 sub-sector elections. In 2011, he received an honorary Doctor of Technology from Coventry University and was later made an Honorary Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire.

Personal Life

Poon married nurse Kan Lai-kwan in 1968 in the UK. They had three children: Karen, Richard, and Heather. Heather died in a car accident in 1995; Richard died by suicide in 2000. The couple divorced in 2010 after Kan discovered Poon’s extramarital affair. In 2016, Poon married Teresa Cheng, with the ceremony officiated by Elsie Leung and witnessed by Frank Chan.

Unauthorized Building Works Controversy

In January 2018, the Buildings Department found nine unauthorised structures at Poon and Cheng’s properties, totaling around 1,732 sq ft. Poon was prosecuted for one unauthorized pool and fined HK$20,000 in April 2019.

Other Information

In 2012, the High Court ordered Poon to pay HK$370 million in alimony. This was later increased to HK$770 million after appeals concluded in the Court of Final Appeal in 2014.

Poon was also linked to the Ao Man Long corruption case involving Analogue Group, though another manager handled related matters. In 2016–2017, Analogue Group was awarded three waterworks projects worth HK$130 million without open tendering, raising procurement concerns.

In December 2016, Poon’s Tuen Mun residence was burglarized, losing cash and coins worth HK$13,000.

See also

• Analogue Group of Companies

External Links

• Board Members, STFA Cheng Yu Tung Secondary School (2016–2017)
• PolyU Outstanding Alumni