Professor Cassian Cheung was the chief executive officer of Next Digital Limited, a leading media company in Hong Kong and Taiwan, from 2011 to January 2018. Cassian also served as an independent non-executive director of Trinity Ltd., a Fung Group company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Cassian was the President of Wal-Mart China Co Ltd. where he led the expansion of Wal-Mart retail stores and managed a team of 20,000 associates in China. Prior to joining Walmart, he was the President of Quaker Oats Asia, Inc. He started his career at The Nestlé Company in the USA and was Chief Operating Officer-PRC for Nestlé (China) Ltd.
 
Cassian is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he received an MBA degree. He is also an advisory member of the Global Business program of the Business School of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”). Since 2005, he has been an adjunct professor teaching management courses in both the Master of Business Administration program and the undergraduate Global Business program at the School. Cassian was conferred an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree at St. Joseph’s College of Indiana, where he had studied for his bachelor’s degree.