Our leadership
Ben Keswick
Ben Keswick has been Executive Chairman of Jardine Matheson since 2019. He was Managing Director from 2012 to 2020.
He has held a number of executive positions since joining the Group in 1998, including finance director and then chief executive officer of Jardine Pacific between 2003 and 2007, and group managing director of Jardine Cycle & Carriage between 2007 to 2012. He was also chairman of DFI Retail between 2013 and July 2024, Jardine Cycle & Carriage between 2012 and August 2024 and Hongkong Land between 2013 and October 2024.
Mr Keswick is chairman of Mandarin Oriental and a commissioner of Astra.
He has an MBA from INSEAD.

John Witt
John Witt was appointed Group Managing Director of Jardine Matheson in 2020. He joined the Board in 2016 and was Group Finance Director from 2016 to 2020.
Mr Witt has been with the Jardine Matheson Group since 1993, having held a number of senior positions, including chief financial officer of Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental. He was managing director of Mandarin Oriental and chairman of Astra’s executive committee until July 2024.
Mr Witt is chairman of DFI Retail, Hongkong Land, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Jardine Matheson Limited, the Group management company. He is also managing director of Hongkong Land, a director of Jardine Pacific, and a commissioner of Astra.
He is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA from INSEAD.

Graham Baker
Graham Baker joined the Board as Group Finance Director in 2020.
He was previously an executive director and chief financial officer of Smith+Nephew in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020. Prior to joining Smith+Nephew, he worked for 20 years for AstraZeneca PLC in a range of senior roles in the United Kingdom and internationally, including in Japan and Singapore, and then as chief financial officer of generic pharmaceutical company Alvogen.
He is also a director of DFI Retail and Jardine Matheson Limited, the Group management company.

Janine Feng
Janine Feng joined the Board in May 2023. She is a managing director at Carlyle, focussed on Asian buyout opportunities in the financial services, consumer products and healthcare sectors. Since joining Carlyle in 1998, she has led various investments including Carlyle Asia Partners’ investments in China Pacific Insurance, Kaiyuan Hotel Group, Haier Electronics, Focus Media, and MicroPort.
Prior to joining Carlyle, she was a financial analyst and later a senior associate at Credit Suisse First Boston’s investment banking group in New York, where she focussed on structured finance and project finance transactions for four and a half years. While at business school, she worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, Inc.

Stuart Gulliver
Stuart Gulliver joined the Board in 2019. He was previously executive director and group chief executive of HSBC Holdings plc from 2011 until 2018 and chairman of The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited from 2011 to 2018. Mr Gulliver has more than 37 years’ international banking experience, having joined HSBC in 1980 and worked for the group throughout his career. He is a director, member of the risk committee and a member of the nomination and remuneration committee of The Saudi Awwal Bank. He is also a director and member of the audit committee and the risk and health, safety and environment committee of Saudi Aramco and a member of the International Advisory Council of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.

Keyu Jin
Keyu Jin joined the Board in January 2024. She is a tenured professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she researches globalisation and the Chinese economy. She is from Beijing, China, and holds a B.A., M.A. and PhD from Harvard University.
Dr Jin is an independent non-executive director of Compagnie Financière Richemont SA, the second-largest luxury conglomerate, AInnovation, an AI+ manufacturing solution provider and of Stanhope Capital, one of the world's largest independent wealth management and advisory firms. She is a member of China Finance 40 and a member of the economic council for the state of Qatar. She has previously advised and consulted for the World Bank, the IMF and the New York Fed.

Adam Keswick
Adam Keswick first joined the Group in 2001 and was appointed to the Board in 2007. He was Deputy Managing Director from 2012 to 2016, and became chairman of Matheson & Co. in 2016. Mr Keswick is a director of Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental. He is also a director of Ferrari NV and Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum.

Ming Lu
Ming Lu joined the Board in February 2025. He is a Senior Advisory Partner of KKR and was previously Executive Chairman, Asia Pacific. Mr. Lu currently serves as a member of the KKR Asia Private Equity Investment Committee and KKR Asia Portfolio Management Committee.
Ming has played a significant role over many years in private equity investments across Asia Pacific and, since 2018, has been playing a leadership role in KKR Asia’s growth and expansion.
Ming was previously a Partner at CCMP Capital Asia (formerly J.P. Morgan Partners Asia), which he joined in 1999. Prior to that, Ming was President of Asia Pacific at Lucas Varity, a leading global automotive component supplier, and also worked for Kraft Foods International Inc. and CITIC, the largest direct investment firm in China.
Ming received a B.A. in Economics from Wuhan University of Hydroelectrical Engineering in China and an MBA from University of Leuven in Belgium.

Michael Wei Kuo Wu
Michael Wu joined the Board in 2015. He is chairman and managing director of Maxim’s Caterers in Hong Kong. He is a member of the Council of the Hong Kong Management Association.

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John Witt
John Witt joined the Board in 2016 and was appointed Chairman and Group Managing Director of Jardine Matheson Limited in June 2020. Having first joined the Group in 1993, he was Group Finance Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited from 2016 to 2020.

Graham Baker
Graham Baker joined the Board in June 2020 and is Group Finance Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited. He was previously an executive director and chief financial officer of Smith+Nephew in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020.

Matthew Bland
Matthew Bland is Group General Counsel of the Jardine Matheson Group. Prior to joining the Group, he was a senior partner with Linklaters LLP, specialising in corporate M&A. He first joined Linklaters in 1998 and has worked in London and Tokyo.

Elton Chan
Having first joined the Group in 2004, Elton Chan is chief executive of Jardine Pacific, overseeing the portfolio of Jardine Pacific businesses. Prior to his current role at Jardine Pacific, he has worked in a range of senior management role across the Group, including chief executive of Jardine Schindler Group and managing director of Zung Fu China.

Stephen Gore
Stephen Gore is Chief Investment Officer for Jardine Matheson. Having joined the Group in 2017, he was group finance director of Jardine Cycle & Carriage and previously served as the chief financial officer of Jardine Pacific and Jardine Motors Group. He is also a commissioner of Astra.

Steve Sun
Steve Sun is chairman of Jardine Matheson (China), with responsibility for supporting the Group’s business developments in Chinese mainland, Taiwan and Macau. Steve was a partner and co-head of China at TPG Capital, leading private equity investments and facilitating business development efforts for TPG’s global business units in China. Prior to TPG, he was managing director in Goldman Sachs’ Principal Investment Area – the investment bank’s private equity unit – responsible for Greater China investments.
