Carson Yeung

Carson Yeung
Yeung at a Birmingham City F.C. Vs Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. match February 2010.
Born	Carson Yeung Ka Sing (1960-02-27) 27 February 1960 (age 57)
Nationality	Hong Kong
Occupation	Businessman
Years active	1990s–present
Title	President, Birmingham City F.C. (2007–14)

Carson Yeung Ka Sing (Chinese: 楊家誠; pinyin: Yáng Jiāchéng; Wade–Giles: Yang Chia-ch'eng; born 27 February 1960) is a Hong Kong businessman who, until February 2014, was the president of English football club Birmingham City F.C., and chairman and an executive director of Birmingham International Holdings (previously Grandtop International Holdings), an investment, entertainment and sportswear firm registered in the Cayman Islands, which owns that club. He is also a director of Universal Energy Resources Holdings and Universal Management Consultancy Ltd.

In March 2014, Yeung was convicted on five counts of money laundering and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. He is currently serving his sentence after the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal rejected his final appeal.

At the age of 12 he moved to London before returning to Hong Kong to work. Up until the 1990s he was in a Tsim Sha Tsui barber shop called "Vanity", and was trained as a hairdresser.

Yeung began his investment career making his first fortune in the Hong Kong Real Estate industry. In 1997, he began having financial trouble caused by the Asian financial crisis. He tried to recover by investing in penny stocks in 1999 to use shares to cover failed shares.

According to the BBC he "made his fortune on penny stocks in neighbouring Macau."

In 2004, he then co-founded Greek Mythology, a casino in Macau. He was also once the head of a Human Resources department at a gas company.

Yeung was the chairman of Hong Kong First Division outfit Hong Kong Rangers from 2005 to 2006. In 2005, he made an £80,000 donation to the local football association after buying shirts worn by famous English footballers at auction.

In 2007, he unsuccessfully attempted to take over Birmingham City. Yeung failed to deliver the money for the takeover by the deadline of 30 November 2007 and as a result the takeover bid fell through. He was held responsible for the club's U-turn on the contract offered to manager Steve Bruce in May 2007, which led to Bruce's decision to resign from the club and move to Wigan Athletic F.C. of November that year.