Canny Leung | |
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Native name | Chinese: 梁芷珊 |
Born |
British Hong Kong |
29 June 1968
Education | Belilios Public School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
Years active | 1990–present |
Spouse(s) | Steven Lo (2002 married) |
Children | Daughter: Luole Tong (14 years old) |
Canny Leung Chi-Shan (Chinese: 梁芷珊 ) is a Hong Kong businesswoman, investor, songwriter, and philanthropist. She serves as the managing director at Hiromi Investment Group Co., Ltd., Chairman at Hong Kong Pegasus FC; known as one of Hong Kong "four talented woman."
Graduated at Belilios Public School and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (formerly named the Hong Kong Polytechnic), she was active at modelling and starred at television commercials, print advertisements and music videos in her youth. Leung then moved on to be an emcee at television and radio programs. She also performed at The Justice of Life a Hong Kong classic television drama, starring alongside Stephen Chow Sing-chi and Anthony Wong Chau-sang
Since 1990, Leung has been writing lyrics and was a lyricist of many music artists, such as Andy Hui, Sammi Cheng, and Kelly Chen. While actively releasing her literary works, in newspapers and magazines, like Apple Daily, Oriental Daily, The Sun, Ming Pao, Hong Kong Economic Times, Hong Kong Economic Journal, Cosmopolitan, and Elle. She has over 45 fiction works published, and amongst them, "Bakery Amour" and the "Four-leaf Clover" Series have been adapted into film and a collection of television dramas respectively. Her later works also broadened to consist of radio drama scripts and movie screenplays.
Leung earned her first related award at 2009 at Beijing, being awarded "China's Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs", her first experience about marketing and advertising was at Baleno and Mexx (both are fashion chains) at jobs after college graduation. After getting married in 2002 with Steven Lo Kit-sing, a businessman, she has joined her husband and becoming the managing director of bma Investment Limited. She has to oversee the Group's businesses, counting music, movie, book publishing, sports, and food and beverage that include Red MR, Karaoke, Loyal Dining, and South China Football Team.
Leung founded the Hong Kong Pegasus Football Club (formerly named Tin Shui Wai Pegasus Football Club) in 2008, for community building and improving the new town's reputation at Tin Shui Wai. At its initial season, Pegasus won the champions at the Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield. Given her continual efforts, brands including Sony PlayStation, Energy Watt, started to offer support to Pegasus. In 2015, Leung has picked up the role of chairman. She wanted a youthful and lively image for the team, therefore Pegasus recruited local footballers under the age of 28 to act as key players. The players Lee Ka-yiu, Tan Chun-lok, Lo Kong-wai, Leung Kwun-chung, Liang Nuo-heng, have joined the Hong Kong national football team.