Ben Keswick joined the Board as Managing Director in April 2012 and held the position until June 2020. He has been Chairman since 2013. He was also managing director of Jardine Matheson from 2012 to 2020. He has held a number of executive positions since joining the Jardine Matheson group in 1998, including finance director and then chief executive officer of Jardine Pacific between 2003 and 2007, and group managing director of Jardine Cycle & Carriage until March 2012. He is executive chairman of Jardine Matheson and chairman of Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental. He is also chairman of Jardine Cycle & Carriage and a commissioner of Astra. He has an MBA from INSEAD. 

Ben Keswick

Chairman

John Witt joined the Board in 2016 and was appointed Managing Director in June 2020. He has been with the Jardine Matheson group since 1993 and has held a number of senior finance positions, including group finance director of Jardine Matheson from 2016 to 2020 and the chief financial officer of Hongkong Land. John is chairman of Jardine Matheson Limited, group managing director of Jardine Matheson and managing director of Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental. He is also a director of Jardine Pacific and Jardine Motors, as well as a commissioner and chairman of the executive committee of Astra. John is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA from INSEAD.

John Witt*

Managing Director

Scott Price joined the Board of DFI as Group Chief Executive effective on 1st August 2023. Scott has over 30 years of retail, logistics and consumer packaged goods sectors experience from around the world. Scott was previously the President, International at UPS, before which he was the executive vice president of global leverage at Walmart and was also the President & CEO of DHL Express in Europe. He started his career with the Coca Cola Company and held country business positions in various locations across Asia. He is also a director of Yonghui Superstores.

Scott Price*

Group Chief Executive

Clem Constantine joined the Board as Chief Financial Officer in 2019, having joined the DFI leadership team as Property Director in 2018. He is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in senior finance and property roles in the retail sector. He has previously held finance, international and property directorships with Marks and Spencer, the Arcadia group, Debenhams and the Burton Group in the United Kingdom.

Clem Constantine*

Chief Financial Officer and Property Director

Dave Cheesewright joined the Board in 2021. He is currently a non-executive director of Rapha Racing Ltd. He was the former president and chief executive officer of Walmart International.

Dave Cheesewright

Weiwei Chen joined the Board in 2021. She is currently an independent non-executive director and a member of the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee of LianBio and board senior adviser to Pharmplus. She was the former vice president and chief financial officer, China of Starbucks and chief financial officer, China Division of Yum! Brands.

Weiwei Chen

Adam Keswick joined the Board in 2012. Having joined Jardine Matheson in 2001, he was appointed to the Jardine Matheson board in 2007 and was deputy managing director from 2012 to 2016. Adam is a director of Hongkong Land and Mandarin Oriental. He is also a director of Ferrari NV, Schindler and Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum and vice chairman of the supervisory board of Rothschild & Co.

Adam Keswick

Anthony Nightingale joined the Board in 2006 and was Managing Director of the Company from 2006 to 2012. He is also a director of Hongkong Land, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, Jardine Matheson, Shui On Land and Vitasoy, and a commissioner of Astra. He is chairperson of The Sailors Home and Missions to Seafarers in Hong Kong.  He is a past chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and served on many Hong Kong Government committees from 1992 to 2022, also representing Hong Kong on the APEC Business Advisory Council from 2005 to 2017.

Anthony Nightingale

Christian Nothhaft joined the Board in 2021. He is currently the chair of Active Capital Partners Limited and entrepreneur in residence with Warburg Pincus LLC. He was the former CEO of Watsons Personal Care Stores, China and managing director of Fortress.

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