CORPORATE EXECUTIVES
Catherine So
Chief Executive Officer
Catherine So is the Chief Executive Officer of the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a global news media company that has reported on Hong Kong, China and Asia for more than a century. She is a business leader with over 20 years of experience in the tech, digital and media sectors across Greater China, the Asia-Pacific and the United States.
Prior to joining the SCMP, she was Expedia Group’s Managing Director of Asia-Pacific, leading its business through years of rapid growth and marketplace transformation, while overseeing its consumer business with major brands including Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Stayz and Bookabach. Previously, Ms. So was the Managing Director of Groupon Hong Kong and held leadership positions at the iProperty Group (now REA Group), News Corporation and AOL Time Warner.
Ms. So is currently on the board of the International News Media Association (INMA), a global community of market-leading news media companies. She holds a B.A. with Honours in Economics from Harvard University.
Kevin HuangChief Operating Officer
Kevin Huang is the Chief Operating Officer of the South China Morning Post, and leads the Advertising & Marketing Solutions unit within the organisation.
Kevin’s career spans 25 years of experience across the APAC region, during which he consistently spearheaded digital, mobile and advertising businesses through high growth and profitability.
Prior to joining SCMP, Kevin was the Hong Kong Managing Director of Carousell. Before that, he headed Birdie Mobile, Hong Kong’s first digital-only operator. Kevin was also Co-Founder and CEO of Pixels, during which he grew the company to become one of the leading home-grown ad tech firms in the region.
A founding member and current Chairman of IAB Hong Kong, Kevin holds a degree in Computer Information Systems from Pace University. Born in Malaysia, Kevin has been living and working in Hong Kong for over two decades.
MASTHEAD
Tammy Tam Wai Yi
Editor-in-Chief
Tammy Tam is the South China Morning Post’s Editor-in-Chief and is responsible for the overall editorial direction, strategic development and leading the Post’s newsroom operations for both its print and digital platforms. Tammy is the Chairperson of the Hong Kong News Executives’ Association, and Vice-Chairwoman of the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong. She was a board member of the Media Communications Training Board, the Hong Kong Vocational Training Council, which is dedicated to training talents in the media industry, from 2017 to 2023. Prior to joining the Post, Tammy spent 20 years in the television industry in leadership roles managing editorial teams and bureaus and corporate development strategies.
Chow Chung-yan
Executive Editor
Chow Chung-yan began his journalistic career at the South China Morning Post and rose to become Executive Editor in 2015, following stints at the City, China and Business desks. As the SCMP’s second-in-command, he is in charge of the China and US bureaus as well as the political economy, culture, print and digital teams. He has been running the SCMP’s day-to-day operations since 2011. He led the newsroom’s organisational restructuring, streamlined its production workflows and set up dedicated teams for both the print and digital products to facilitate the newspaper’s digital transformation. He also assembled an award-winning infographics desk and spearheaded the redesign of the newspaper. To strengthen the paper’s international coverage, he established the SCMP’s US operations in 2017 with bureaus in New York and Washington, and subsequently set up offices in Brussels and Nairobi. He has been directing the SCMP’s China coverage since 2007 to build the newspaper into one of the most important sources of information on China for global readers.
Areas of Expertise:
Editorial content
Languages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
Zuraidah Ibrahim
Executive Managing Editor
Zuraidah supervises the publication’s Hong Kong, Asia and international coverage as well as its photo, graphics and Young Post desks. She also oversees This Week in Asia, an award-winning Sunday current affairs magazine.
Zuraidah was previously the Deputy Editor of Singapore’s largest English-language daily, The Straits Times.
Among the books Zuraidah has published are Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going (Straits Times Press, 2011), a monograph on the Opposition in the Singapore Chronicles series (Institute of Policy Studies, 2017) and a co-edited compendium of reports on Hong Kong’s 2019 protests, Rebel City: Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire (SCMP Publishers, 2020). Her latest book project is Post Portraits – Hong Kong’s 25 years of change through the lens of the South China Morning Post (SCMP Publishers, 2023).
Yonden Lhatoo
Managing Editor, Content
Yonden Lhatoo is Managing Editor, Content at the South China Morning Post. He was a TV news anchor and editor for nearly two decades before he joined the Post as a senior editor in 2015. He began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter covering Hong Kong’s transition from British colonial rule to Chinese sovereignty, and is now a veteran newshand who specialises in Hong Kong and Greater China affairs. Apart from his editorial duties, which cover news content and quality control at the Post, he regularly moderates forums and seminars on current affairs. He has publicly written, spoken and taught about local, regional and global issues for decades, but is still trying to figure it all out.
Eugene Tang
Managing Editor, Business & Projects
Eugene Tang has been a business journalist since 1994 and has 16 years experience in China, including 10 years building and managing a bilingual news operation as editor and Bloomberg’s China Bureau Chief. Before joining the Post, Eugene was product director of institutional news and Factiva products at Dow Jones/Wall St Journal. As Managing Editor, he is responsible for coverage of markets, banking and finance, property and industries.
Areas of Expertise:
Life cycle of news, from reporting/editing of business/finance/economics to development and sales of news products
Languages Spoken:
Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mandarin