Galaxy Entertainment names Eileen Lui Wai as executive director

Lui has been the company’s director of human resources and administration since 2014.

Macau.- Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) has named Eileen Lui Wai Ling as executive director, with effect from today (May 9). She has also been appointed as a member of the executive board.

Lui is the younger sister of Francis Lui Yiu Tung, the chairman of GEG, and Paddy Tang Lui Wai Yu, an executive director of GEG. She joined the company in 1993 and became director of human resources and administration in 2014. She has served as a director for several GEG subsidiaries.

Earlier this year, she was appointed as an advisor to the 38th Women’s General Association of Macau. She served on the Standing Committee for the 8th and 9th Zhuhai Provincial Committee from 2012 to 2021 and was a member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from 2013 to 2017. She was a member of the Finance Committee of the Hong Kong Arts Centre from May 2006 to December 2016.

She holds an executive master of business administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

GEG net revenue climbs in Q1

For the first quarter of the year, GEG posted net revenue of HK$11.20bn (US$1.44bn), up 6.2 per cent in year-on-year terms but down 1 per cent sequentially.

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for the first quarter was HK$3.3bn (US$m), up 16 per cent year-on-year and up 2 per cent quarter-on-quarter. GGR was HK$10.9bn (US$bn), up 14 per cent year-on-year but down 1 per cent sequentially.

Mass GGR was HK$8.2bn, up 6 per cent year-on-year and down 5 per cent quarter-on-quarter. VIP GGR was HK$2.0bn, up 52 per cent year-on-year and 29 per cent sequentially. Electronic GGR was HK$729m, up 22 per cent year-on-year and down 7 per cent quarter-on-quarter.