| Ho Ying-chie | |
| Birth Place: | Hong Kong |
| Nationality: | Canadian (1986-) |
| Relations: | Ho Ying-chie - grandfather |
| Occupation: | businessman |
| Known For: | Harmony Airways |
David Ho Ting-kwok (born c. 1953)[1] is a Vancouver based Canadian entrepreneur originally from Hong Kong.[2] He founded the now defunct Harmony Airways,[2] and owns the University Golf Club (course land owned and leased from Musqueam Capital Corporation). He has a minority interest in MCL Motors (founded 1992) since selling it to Dilawri Automotive Group in 2010.[3] In 2005 he was named the Businessman of the Year by the Vancouver Junior Board of Trade.[4] Ho is a former member of the Vancouver Police Board.[5]
In 2009 Ho was charged with unlawful confinement, cocaine possession and possession of an unregistered firearm in relation to an incident involving a prostitute. On February 2, 2012, he pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful confinement and was given a one-year suspended sentence, 45 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine.[6]
Ho and his family have been frequent donors to various charities, especially Orbis International.[6]
Ho's name was found in the Panama Papers involving his registration of Harmonyworld Investment Company by Mossack Foncesa.[7]
Ho's grandfather, Ho Ying-chie, owned the Hong Kong Tobacco Co., the eighth-largest tobacco company worldwide. Sing Tao News Corporation Limited chairman Charles Ho is his brother.[8]
Ho attended Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, and then studied business at the University of Richmond.[9] Ho, and his then-wife Rita Fung (sister of Fairchild Group CEO Thomas Fung and daughter of Fung King Hey, co-founder of Sun Hung Kai & Co. of Hong Kong), arrived in Canada in 1984 because she had family in the Vancouver area.[2] [9] The couple divorced in 1995. Ho later married Winnie Schweitzer,[10] who along with Ho are directors in Seychelles registered Harmonyworld Investments.