John Ho (born 1976) is Chief Industrialist Investor of Janchor Partners.

Early life and education

Born in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

, Ho migrated to

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...

with his parents at age 12, completing his secondary education at

James Ruse Agricultural High School , motto_translation = Deeds not words , established = , type = Government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary day school , educational_authority = NSW Departm ...

in Carlingford, NSW. Ho attended the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

, and holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and a Bachelor of Commerce in finance (First Class Honours and University Medal). Ho also served as an associate lecturer in the School of Banking and Finance at UNSW from 1998 to 2000.

Career

After graduating from UNSW, Ho joined

Boston Consulting Group Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is an American global management consulting firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the Big Three (or MBB, the world’s three largest management consulting firms by rev ...

as a consultant in 2000, initially in Sydney, before relocating to the firm's Chicago office. In 2003, Ho joined

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as a senior analyst, before relocating in 2004 to Hong Kong. From 2004 to 2009, Ho served as director and head of Asia investing for

The Children's Investment Fund The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (UK) (CIFF) is an independent philanthropic organisation with offices in Addis Ababa, Beijing, London, Nairobi and New Delhi. It is a registered charity in England and Wales and in 2021 disbursed $468 mi ...

, and from 2005 to 2009 as non-executive director of

Link REIT Link Real Estate Investment Trust (, or ; previously known as The Link Real Estate Investment Trust (, or ), managed by Link Asset Management Limited, is the first real estate investment trust in Hong Kong and currently the largest in Asia in ...

. In 2009, Ho founded global equity manager Janchor Partners. Janchor Partners, with over US$5 billion invested in the Asia-Pacific region, is a long-term industrialist investor in companies with fundamental long-term value creation potential. Janchor Partners, an early backer of Chinese online marketplace

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, has owned a number of healthcare companies in Australia including

Medibank Private Medibank Private Limited, better known as simply Medibank, is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers, covering 3.7 million people in 2021. Medibank initially started as an Australian Government not-for-profit insurer i ...

, as well as interests in freight group

Aurizon Aurizon ( ) is a freight rail transport company in Australia, formerly named QR National. it was the world’s largest rail transporter of coal from mine to port. Formerly a Queensland Government-owned company, it was privatised and floated o ...

, and document management company Iron Mountain. Janchor Partners was a lead investor in Chinese TechFin company Ant Financial's $14 billion funding round in June 2018. From 2014-2019, Ho was appointed to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listing Committee, where he served as deputy chairman. He was also a committee member of the Securities and Futures Commission's Public Shareholders Group from 2015-2021. In 2014, Ho also joined the board of

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firm Rokt as a non-executive director. From 2017-2019, Ho was a non-executive director and chairman of

Bellamy's Australia Bellamy's Australia (formerly Tasmanian Pure Foods Ltd) is a major Australian food and beverage company, and is the parent company of Bellamy's Organic, Australia's largest organic infant formula producer. History Bellamy's started as Bellamy ...

, in which Janchor Partners had a 7.7% interest in April 2017. The company was ultimately sold to Mengniu Dairy Group. From 2018-2021, Ho sat on the board of

Vocus Group Vocus Group Limited, formerly known as Vocus Communications, is an international telecommunications company headquartered in North Sydney, Australia. Founded by James Spenceley as a wholesale, business, government and consumer telecommunicati ...

as a non-executive director. In July 2021, Ho joined the board of Avepoint, Inc., the largest independent software vendor of SaaS solutions to migrate, manage and protect data in Microsoft 365, as a non-executive director. In March 2023, Ho joined the board of Incitec Pivot Limited, an industrial explosive and fertilizer company, as a non-executive director.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ho, John Living people Australian business executives 1976 births People educated at James Ruse Agricultural High School Australian people of Chinese descent University of New South Wales alumni Hong Kong emigrants to Australia