Christopher Ip Shih Ming has resigned as chief financial officer (CFO) of Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Ltd with effect from Monday (June 29), and is being immediately succeeded by Sean Czoon Tan, a former CFO at Cambodian casino operator NagaCorp Ltd.
SJM Holdings said in a noon filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that Mr Ip had left to “pursue other personal interests”. Mr Ip – who had previously been CFO at Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd – had been the finance boss at SJM Holdings since December 2023, according to a filing at the time.
Monday’s update stated: “Mr Ip has confirmed that he has no disagreement with the board and there is no other matter relating to his resignation that needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders” or the bourse.
Mr Tan, aged 47, is said to have over 25 years of strategic business and financial management experience.
He worked at Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp, operator of the NagaWorld casino resort, from July 2013 up to this June.
NagaWorld has a long-life casino monopoly in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
The new SJM Holdings CFO had been appointed NagaCorp CFO in March 2018, as part of a number of management changes, and became the latter group’s chief corporate development officer in July 2025, which Monday’s filing mentioned had been a promotion.
He is a chartered accountant and a chartered financial analyst.
