College of Business Alumni Awardees

James Wong is currently the executive director of Hon Kwok Land Investment Co. Ltd., which was founded by his great-grandfather in the 1920s to build China’s railway system. James also serves as executive director for the Chinney Group, which includes four publicly listed companies in Hong Kong focused on high-tech engineering, construction, trading, investments and real estate. The businesses’ work ranges from building an 80-story Hon Kwok Tower in Shenzhen to installing the air traffic management radar at the Hong Kong Airport. He also holds a position as a member of the executive committee of the Urban Land Institute in Hong Kong.

James currently serves on the Florida Tech board of trustees and is also an adjunct professor for Florida Tech’s online programs teaching business and healthcare law. James has held various positions as a lawyer on Toyota’s eDiscovery team and as a tax lawyer at Baker and McKenzie as well as PricewaterhouseCoopers. James has published and spoken widely on subjects including eDiscovery, social media policy in the workplace, China for newbies and, more recently, China and the Belt and Road Initiative. Wong previously served as a delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference for Jiangsu Province from 2013 to 2018.

James completed his undergraduate work at the University of Washington in 1984. He went on to earn his Master of Science in Information Systems Engineering from Florida Tech in 2007 as well as a Juris Doctor from the University of California Hastings College of Law.