Percy Weatherall

Who is Percy Weatherall?

Percy Weatherall or Edward Percy Keswick Weatherall, is a prominent British businessman formerly active in Hong Kong. He was Managing Director of the Jardine Matheson Group from 2000 to 31 March 2006 having joined the board in 1999.

Mr. Weatherall joined the Jardine Group in 1976 and worked in a number of senior executive positions in Hong Kong, the USA, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Korea and the Philippines, prior to becoming "Tai-Pan". Mr. Weatherall was chief executive officer of Hongkong Land.

Mr. Weatherall is a member of the Keswick family which control Jardine Matheson through complex cross-shareholdings, despite holding only around 10% of the shares in the company. During Mr. Weatherall's period in charge the company defended itself against Brandes Investment Partners who proposed the company break itself up to release extra shareholder value and Jardines undertook large scale strategic investment in Astra International of Indonesia via the Singapore company Jardine Cycle & Carriage. He was succeeded as Group Managing Director by Anthony Nightingale on 1 April 2006.