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Ted Wilson
Ted Wilson is an American living and working in Hong Kong and is closely associated with the sport of figure skating and ice rinks in Asia.

Ted worked from 1980 to 1987 at the Hyatt Regency Dubai, UAE,  as the general manager and ice show director at the Galleria Ice Theatre. During that period he staged numerous ice shows featuring primarily American and British skating champions and stars including Richard Dwyer, Gerty Desjardins, Karen Kresge, Billy Chappell,  Jeff and Susie Nolt,  John Curry,  Patricia Dodd,  Jojo Starbuck,  David Santee,  Jimmy Santee,  Justine Townsend Smith,  Jon Robinson,  Hank Green,   John Stead,  Lauren Chabot,  Tara and Ashley Harrison,  Oliver, Isabelle and Cecille Jacquemart,  Anita Singh,  Kilby Mahoney, Shelly Green,  Rosalind Walker,  Debbie DeSouza, Kassim Nassir, Raul Gomes,  Eugene Quadro, Ravi Subasinghe,  Alfred Joseph,  Ronald D'Sa,  Andrew D'Mello, and many others.

While Skating had been introduced a year earlier at a hockey rink in a private club called Al Nasr Leisureland, the Hyatt rink was devoted to figure skating and developed a strong following of loyal skaters who not only became the staple performers for the frequent ice shows, but also the main competitive team that travelled to the US to compete in the annual ISI World Recreational Skating Championships. They also travelled in 1983 to the World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki, Finland and in 1986 to Geneva Switzerland for the same event where Brian Boitano won the men's gold medal.

In 1986 Ted took many of the team to the United States where they competed in Dallas, Texas and later to Los Angeles where they were hosted by Richard Dwyer at his Hollywood Hills home for a special party attended by 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist, Scott Hamilton, Canadian Champion Brian Pockar and many former stars of Ice Capades and Ice Follies. During that same trip in San Francisco, at the Harlick Factory,  they met Brian Boitano who dropped in to get his new boots and made friends with the skaters.

In 1987, Ted accepted a position offered by Swire Properties in Hong Kong to set up and operate the new Cityplaza Ice Palace located in Taikoo Shing in Island East. He immediately went about promoting figure skating and building a strong team. In 1988 Ted set up and ran the first real ISI International competition known as Skate Asia, and event that continues today in various Southeast Asian countries including Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, China and Hong Kong.

In 2002 Ted retired from Swire and moved to Laguna Hills, California where he became involved with Danny Kwan who was preparing a new rink for his daughter, 5 time world champion, Michelle Kwan. He worked with Danny on this project until approached by China Resources Shenzhen to return to Asia and work on a new Olympic size rink at their new MIXC Mall. This opened on January 1, 2005. Ted was named General Manager of the rink and a Director of the Citycrossing project which included a new shopping complex and a Grand Hyatt Hotel. In 2008 Ted relocated on Hangzhou, China to set up another Olympic size rink for the same company and three others in Shenyang, Chengdu and Nanning as Chief Consultant. In 2011 Ted accepted an offer by Keith G. Kerr, former Chairman of Swire Properties and current Chairman of The Development Studio to start a new company to be called Ice Rink Concepts. This new company had a very show start primarily due to the global economic downturn but eventually did get contracts for projects on the Mainland.

Ted continues to live in Hong Kong.'''

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