Mr Sunny W K Lee joined The Hong Kong Jockey Club as Executive Director, Information Technology in July 2006. Mr Lee heads a team of over 430 IT professionals, to provide innovative technology solutions that contribute significantly to the Club's mission and strategic objectives.

Mr Lee has extensive IT experience gained in both Hong Kong and overseas. Prior to joining the Jockey Club, he spent 10 years at the Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) where he was an Executive Committee Member and held a number of key positions at the Company, including Chief Information Officer of the Group and Chief Executive Officer of two strategic diversification businesses, iCare.com Limited and Towngas Telecommunications Company Limited.

Between 1990 to 1996, Mr Lee was Vice President and Systems Director of the Bank of America in Hong Kong, where he played a key role in building up IT capabilities to support the Bank's business expansion in Asia. He has also previously held key IT positions in the financial, management consulting and manufacturing industries in the USA.

Mr Lee takes time to serve in many high level advisory committees in the academic, professional and community arena, and is currently President of the Hong Kong Computer Society as well as a member of the Hong Kong SAR Digital 21 Advisory Committee. In 1999, he was a recipient of Hong Kong's Ten Outstanding Young Digi Persons Award for his contributions to IT. He has received two CIO Awards from CIO Asia Magazine, the first in 2002 and again in 2007 for the Club's Veterinary Management Information System. Mr Lee is also a recipient of the 2007 China Top CIO Award, awarded by CEOCIO China Magazine and IDC (China).

The Hong Kong Jockey Club is one of the largest racing organisations in the world. Horse racing is the most popular spectator sport in Hong Kong and the Club is the only authorised operator of horse racing. The Club also operates the Mark Six lottery and under Government authority, offers betting on football matches held outside Hong Kong.

The Club is also the largest single taxpayer in Hong Kong - HK$12.64 billion in 2006/07, an estimated 8.2% of all taxes collected by the Government Inland Revenue Department. A unique feature of the Club is its not-for-profit business model whereby its surplus goes to charity. Through the past decade, the Club has donated one billion Hong Kong dollars every year to hundreds of charities and community projects. Today, the Club ranks alongside organisations such as the Rockefeller Foundation as one of the biggest charity donors in the world.

The Club is also one of the largest employers in Hong Kong, with 4,600 full-time and 20,300 part-time staff.