Dr. Song Ming, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director, the chairman of the Remuneration Committee, a member of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company on 5 November 2016. Dr. Song graduated from Zhejiang University in July 1982 with a bachelor degree in applied mathematics. Dr. Song obtained his master degree in applied mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (formerly known as Huazhong Institute of Technology), and was awarded a doctorate by Ohio State University. He has over 30 years of experience in the research of bank regulation and management, financial market, derivatives and macroeconomics. Between 1991 and 1997, Dr. Song was the associate professor and assistant professor at the department of economics, Cleveland State University. From 1997 to 2018, Dr. Song was employed by the school of economics and finance of the University of Hong Kong, and he was a professor, the director of Centre for China Financial Research and the associate director of the Institute for China and Global Development at the University of Hong Kong. From December 2017 to January 2023, Dr. Song was the Dean of the Economics and Management School of Wuhan University and has been heavily involved in various academic conferences, researches and consultation projects, and he remains as professor of that School from January 2023. He served as an independent non-executive director of Wuzhou International Holdings Limited (previously listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange (stock code: 1369 (delisted)) from May 2013 to December 2020. During the period from June 2010 to May 2022, Dr. Song served as an independent non-executive director of Guotai Junan International Holdings Limited (stock code: 1788), a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. From December 2015 to July 2022, Dr. Song was also an independent director of Tande Co., Ltd. (stock code: 600665), a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Dr. Song is currently an independent non-executive director of The United Laboratories International Holdings Limited (stock code: 3933), which is listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange.
Dr. Sun Mingchun, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director, a member of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company on 5 November 2016. He is the senior economic adviser of Tencent group (stock code: 700), a company listed on Main Board of the Stock Exchange, since June 2023, and during the period from November 2019 to May 2023, he was the Chief Economist of Haitong International Securities Group Limited (stock code: 665), a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. During the period from October 2014 to October 2019, Dr. Sun served as the chairman and chief investment officer of Deepwater Capital Limited. Prior to joining Deepwater Capital Limited, Dr. Sun held the positions as the senior partner and chief economist at China Broad Capital Co., Limited, the managing director, head of China research and chief Greater China economist at Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong Limited, the chief China economist, head of China equity research and managing director at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited and the senior China economist, vice president at Lehman Brothers Asia Limited. During the period from July 1993 to August 1999, Dr. Sun was also an economist of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange of the PRC. Dr. Sun is currently the vice chairman of the Chinese Financial Association of Hong Kong and a member of the China Finance 40 Forum. He is also a guest professor of the Finance EMBA program of Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance and the School of Economics of Fudan University, and the honorary institute fellow of The Asia-Pacific Institute of Business of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Sun received a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Fudan University in July 1993. He also obtained a master’s degree in engineering economic systems and operations research and a doctoral degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University in June 2001 and June 2006, respectively. From July 2014 to June 2020, Dr. Sun served as an independent non-executive director of HJ Capital (International) Holdings Company Limited (now known as Huafa Property Services Group Company Limited) (stock code: 982), a company listed on the Stock Exchange. From July 2018 to January 2024, he served as an independent non-executive director of Weimob Inc. (stock code: 2013), a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange.