Gabriel Chi Ming Yu
Founder and Chairman,
iTVentures Group 

- Gabriel Yu Chi-ming is an entrepreneur involved in high-technology development projects. After leaving a successful career in engineering, banking and finance in the early 1980’s, he founded/co-founded a number of businesses ranging from export, import and distribution, manufacturing, and IT start-ups. Of ten businesses he founded or invested, he managed to exit from three companies by either a private sale or IPO’s in USA and still owns a substantial holding in a Thai manufacturing company. He is now the Chairman of iTVentures Ltd and the publisher of the digital Siku Quanshu (www.skqs.com). In cooperation with Hong Kong University’s Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole, he is involved in the compilation of a new electronic dictionary of words used in classical Chinese.

- Gabriel graduated from The University of Hong Kong in 1970 in Electrical Engineering and obtained his MBA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1975. He was awarded the Price Waterhouse Associates Ltd for the best all-round graduate for 1975 and a Beta Gamma Sigma – Chapter Honoree awarded by The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003. He was awarded an honorary fellowship by The City University of Hong Kong in 2009.

- Since 1997, Gabriel has become increasingly involved in a number of university, community and charitable activities and projects. He is presently a member of the Court of The City University of Hong Kong, a working group member of Chinese Language Interface Advisory Committee (CLIAC), HKSAR and Chairman of a charitable organization named “Friends of Dunhuang (HK) Ltd.” He is also active in the promotion of Kunqu education in Hong Kong.

His involvement in public and professional services and charity work in the last 15 years is listed below:-

  • Member of the Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee to Hong Kong SAR Government (2000-2004)
  • Member of Sub-Committee on IT in Education of the Education Commission (1998-2000), HKSAR
  • Board of Director and a founding member of The 2022 Foundation Ltd, a public policy think-tank foundation (2002-present)
  • Director of The Hong Kong Institute for Promotion of Chinese Culture (2001-present)
  • Member and Executive Director of China Economic Research Foundation (1999-2010)
  • Adjunct Professor of the City University of Hong Kong (2000-present)
  • Member of Media & Communications Services Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Trade Development Council (2001-2002)
  • Member of Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Advisory Committee on Entrepreneurship (2000-2002)
  • International Advisor to QTech Inc, Mountain View, California (2003-present)
  • International Advisor to iCarnegie.com, an online educational company established by Carnegie Mellon University (2002-2005)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Master of Communication (M.C.) Degree in Digital Media in University of Washington (2001-2005)
  • Chairman of Jao Tsung-I Petite Ecole Fan Club of The University of Hong Kong (2007-present)
  • Member of Chinese Language Interface Advisory Committee (CLIAC), HKSAR (2007-2013)
  • Member of Working groups on Characters for Chinese Computer Systems and Chinese Information Processing, CLIAC (2007-present)
  • Member of the Audit Committee of The University of Hong Kong (2007-2010)
  • Member of the Court of the City University of Hong Kong (2007-present)
  • Honorary Patron of The University of Hong Kong Foundation (2008- present)
  • Honorary Advisor of City University, Kunqu Educational Project (崑曲傳承計劃) (2008-present)
  • Honorary Fellow of City University of Hong Kong (Awarded in 2009)
  • Director of Hong Kong Baptist University Foundation (2009-present)
  • Chairman of Friends of Dunhuang (HK) Ltd. (2010-present)
  • Trustee of the Board of United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. (2011-present)
  • Honorary Advisor of CUHK Kunqu Research and Promotion Project (崑曲研究中心) (2012-present)
  • Director of The Jao Studies Foundation (2012-present)
  • Member of The Planning & Development Committee, School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong (2013-present)
  • Member of the Council of Centennial College, Hong Kong (2013-present)
  • Member of Foundation Committee of Centennial College, Hong Kong (2013-present)

Updated: February 2014