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Anthony T. Gaw was a Hong Kong businessman and former Chairman of Gaw Capital Partners.
Biography
Anthony Gaw was born in 1941 to a Chinese family in Myanmar with ancestral roots in Jinjiang, Fujian. In 1955, he moved to Hong Kong with his father. [1][2]He graduated from Purdue University and Stanford University. While pursuing doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley, he met his wife Wong Ching Yee, who is the sister of Victor Wang, chairman of Johnson Electric. After graduating, he worked for Honeywell in the United States for a year before going to Thailand to participate in the family’s textile business. After establishing a new factory in Indonesia, he returned and settled in Hong Kong. In 1970, he founded Gaw Capital Partners and served as its Chairman.
He passed away on February 8, 1999, in Washington, D.C., United States, at the age of 57.
Family
His father was businessman Wu Xiangchuan. His wife was Wong Ching Yee. He had two sons, Goodwin Gaw and Kenneth Gaw.