Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. elected Kwok Kai-chun Geoffrey as a nonexecutive director on its board, effective Dec. 21.

Kwok, concurrently a director of Empire Group Holdings Ltd., is also a director of a unit held under the Hong Kong property developer's hotel division.

The newly minted nonexecutive director is the nephew of Kwok Ping-luen Raymond, chairman and managing director of Sun Hung Kai Properties.