EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

CHU Bin, Chairman, aged 54, was appointed as an executive Director and the chairman of the Board on 20 December 2018. Mr. Chu graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a master’s degree in engineering majoring in logistics engineering. Being an ideological and political work researcher and a chief senior economist, he is currently the secretary of the party committee and the chairman of Tianjin Port Group. Mr. Chu is the representative of the Twentieth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Twelfth Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Fifteenth Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the vice president of the Eighth China Ports and Harbours Association Council, and the vice president of Tianjin Enterprise Confederation and Tianjin Entrepreneurs Association. Mr. Chu has worked in the port industry for many years and has extensive experience in port operation and management. He was employed as a consulting expert of the second waterborne transport new think tank of the China Waterborne Transport Research Institute, and an expert talent of the Tianjin Urban Internationalisation Research Think Tank. Mr. Chu had served as the deputy general manager of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Company Limited* (寧波舟山港股份有限公司), whose shares are listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 601018), a deputy general manager of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group Co., Ltd. * (寧波舟山港集團有限公司) and a director of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Company Limited * (寧波舟山港股份有限公司). In 2021, Mr. Chu was awarded the titles of “National Excellent Communist Party Member” (全國優秀共產黨員), “Tianjin Excellent Communist Party Member” (天津市優秀共產黨員) and “Tianjin State-owned Asset System Excellent Communist Party Member” (天津市國資系統優秀共產黨員) and the 2021-2022 “National Outstanding Entrepreneur”（2021至2022年度全國優秀企業家）. Mr. Chu was selected as “Celebrity for China’s Shipping Industry” (中國航運名人榜) for the years of 2018 to 2021 consecutively, and “Top 70 Persons for China’s Shipping Industry on the 70th Anniversary of the Foundation of the PRC” (新中國70年航運70人) in 2019.

LUO Xunjie, Managing Director, Member of Nomination Committee, aged 55, was appointed as an executive Director and the managing director of the Company on 7 February 2020. He is also a member of the Nomination Committee and a director of certain subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. Luo holds a Doctor of Engineering degree and an MBA degree and is a senior engineer. Mr. Luo is currently a director, vice president and the officer of the strategic investment committee of Tianjin Port Group. He was the general manager of the operation and technology department and the senior general manager of the investment management department of the Asia Pacific region of APM Terminals Greater China, a subsidiary of the Danish Maersk Group (and the chief operating officer of Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal Co., Ltd.); a port manager of P&O Ports Greater China, a subsidiary of P&O of the United Kingdom; a deputy director of the engineering department, the deputy chief commander of the fourth phase of the automated terminal engineering construction department of Shanghai’s Yangshan Deepwater Port, and a deputy general manager of the Shangdong branch, of Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd.

LI Xiaoguang, aged 50, was appointed as an executive Director on 29 March 2022. Dr. Li is a chief senior economist and an engineer, graduated from Tianjin University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering in 1995, and obtained a Master of Business Administration degree in 2003 and a doctoral degree in global economics from Nankai University in 2009. Dr. Li first joined Tianjin Development Holdings Limited (“Tianjin Development”), the substantial shareholder of the Company and whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange (Stock Code: 00882), in 2004 and has held various positions including manager of the asset management department of Tianjin Development Assets Management Co., Ltd. * (天津發展資產管理有限公司), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tianjin Development, and a deputy general manager and general manager of the investment development department of Tsinlien Group Company Limited (“Tsinlien”). During the period from 2008 to 2015, he served in the general office of Tianjin Municipal People’s Government* (天津市人民政府辦公廳) and the general office of Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China* (廣州市委辦公廳). Dr. Li then re-joined Tsinlien as an assistant to the general manager and Tianjin TEDA Industrial Group Co., Ltd.* (天津泰達實業集團有限公司) (formerly known as Tianjin Tsinlien Investment Holdings Co., Ltd.* (天津津聯投資控股有限公司)) (“TEDA Industrial”) as an assistant to the general manager in 2015. He is currently an executive director and the general manager of Tianjin Development, a deputy general manager of Tsinlien, a deputy general manager of TEDA Industrial, and the vice chairman of Tianjin Bohai State-owned Capital Research Institute Co., Ltd. * (天津渤海國有資本研究院有限公司), an associate of TEDA Industrial. Dr. Li has extensive experience in economics, corporate management and public relations.

SUN Bin, aged 45, was appointed as an executive Director on 22 January 2019. He was a member of the Remuneration Committee from 22 January 2019 to 29 March 2022. He was a deputy general manager of the Company from 15 December 2017 to 29 March 2022 and a director of Tianjin Port Co from April 2016 to April 2022. Mr. Sun obtained a bachelor’s degree in international economic law from Shanghai Maritime University (上海海運學院) in 2000 and a master’s degree in international commercial law and EU laws from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom in 2003. He is a senior economist. Mr. Sun joined Tianjin Port Group since 2010 and had held a number of positions from November 2010 to November 2017, including an assistant to the head, the deputy head and the head of the corporate development department of Tianjin Port Group, and the chief of the legal department and the secretary to the board of directors of Tianjin Port Group. Before joining Tianjin Port Group, Mr. Sun was the head of the investment promotion department of Tianjin Lingang Chanye Investment Holdings Co., Ltd.* (天津臨港產業投資控股有限公司). Prior to that, Mr. Sun had been working in Sinochem Holdings (中國中化集團公司) and was responsible for legal and compliance control affairs. Mr. Sun is currently a general manager of the investment and development department of Tianjin Port Group, and a director of certain subsidiaries of the Tianjin Port Group. Mr. Sun is also an arbitrator of China Maritime Arbitration Commission.

LOU Zhanshan, Deputy General Manager, Member of Remuneration Committee, aged 49, was appointed as the deputy general manager of the Company on 15 December 2022, and as an executive Director and a member of the Remuneration Committee on 30 January 2023. He also serves as the director or chairman of supervisory committee for certain subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. Lou holds a master degree in business administration with postgraduate research qualification from Tianjin University. Mr. Lou joined Tianjin Port Group in 1995. He has been the deputy chief of the securities financing department of Tianjin Port Co. During July 2013 to October 2022, he served as the deputy director of the president’s office of Tianjin Port Co, the office director of Tianjin Port Co as well as the deputy director of the general office of the Party Committee of Tianjin Port Group.

YANG Zhengliang, Deputy General Manager, aged 42, was appointed as a deputy general manager of the Company on 28 August 2021 and as an executive Director on 29 March 2022. Mr. Yang was a member of the Remuneration Committee from 29 March 2022 to 30 January 2023, and has been the chief representative of the Tianjin Representative Office of the Company since October 2020. He has been a director of Tianjin Port Co since 28 April 2022. Mr. Yang is also a director of certain subsidiaries of the Group. Mr. Yang obtained a bachelor’s degree in financial management from Tianjin University of Science & Technology, and a master’s and postgraduate degree from Tianjin University. He holds qualifications as a chief senior accountant, a certified international auditor (CIA), a member of CPA Australia, an accounting consultant in Tianjin and a corporate MPAcc instructor of Tianjin University. From October 2018 to September 2020, he served as a deputy director of the investment department and a deputy general manager of the investment and development department of Tianjin Port Group.


INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Japhet Sebastian LAW, Chairman of Remuneration Committee, Member of Audit Committee, aged 71, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director on 8 September 2005. He is also the chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee. Prof. Law obtained his doctorate degree of philosophy in mechanical/industrial engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976. He was a professor in the Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1986 until 2012, and the associate dean and consecutively the dean of the Faculty of Business Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1993 to 2002. Prior to returning to Hong Kong, Prof. Law was the director of Operations Research at the Cullen College of Engineering and the director of Graduate Studies in Industrial Engineering at the University of Houston, and was also involved in the U.S. Space Program in his career in McDonnell Douglas and Ford Aerospace in the U.S. Prof. Law has acted as a consultant for various corporations in Hong Kong and overseas. He is active in public services, having served as a member of the Provisional Regional Council and various other government advisory committees of The Government of the HKSAR, and is also active in serving on the boards of profit, non-profit, and charitable organisations in Hong Kong and overseas.

Prof. Law is currently an independent supervisor of Beijing Capital International Airport Co., Ltd. (Stock Code: 00694), a company whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange, and an independent non-executive director of Binhai Investment Company Limited (Stock Code: 02886), Regal Hotels International Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 00078) and Shougang Fushan Resources Group Limited (Stock Code: 00639), companies whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange, as well as Global Digital Creations Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 08271) and Tianjin Binhai Teda Logistics (Group) Corporation Limited (Stock Code: 08348), companies whose shares are listed on the GEM of the Stock Exchange. Prof. Law also served as an independent non-executive director of Beijing Capital International Airport Co., Ltd. from June 2008 to June 2020.

CHENG Chi Pang, Leslie, Chairman of Audit Committee, Member of Nomination Committee, aged 65, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director on 8 September 2005. He is also the chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee. Mr. Cheng obtained his master’s degree in Laws (Chinese and Comparative Law) from City University of Hong Kong in July 2009, and a master’s degree in business administration from Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom in 1997. He also obtained his bachelor’s degree in business management from Curtin University of Technology in Australia in 1992. Mr. Cheng is an associate member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the CPA Australia and the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong and a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors. Mr. Cheng is a Certified Public Accountant practising in Hong Kong and has over 30 years of experience in auditing, business advisory and financial management. Mr. Cheng was the chief executive and group financial controller of NWS Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 00659), a company whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange, from February 2003 to March 2005. Mr. Cheng is currently the chairman of Vantage Partners CPA Limited and the chief executive officer of L&E Consultants Limited.

Mr. Cheng is currently an independent non-executive director of China Ting Group Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 03398), a company whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange. Mr. Cheng also served as an independent nonexecutive director of Fortune Sun (China) Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 00352), a company whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange, from June 2006 to June 2019.

ZHANG Weidong, Chairman of Nomination Committee, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Remuneration Committee, aged 58, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director on 28 June 2012. He is also the chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee and the Audit Committee. Mr. Zhang holds a master’s degree in economics from Renmin University of China and a diploma of Programme for Management Development of Harvard Business School, and held a fellowship at Columbia University in the city of New York, the U.S.

Mr. Zhang is the founding partner and president of Alpha Win Capital Limited. Mr. Zhang had been an executive director and the deputy chief executive officer of Wealthking Investments Limited (formerly known as OP Financial Limited, Stock Code: 01140), a company whose shares are listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange, and a partner of Oriental Patron Financial Group primarily responsible for private equity investments. Mr. Zhang has over 13 years of experience in the operation and management of commercial banks, during which he worked in the international business department of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (“ICBC”) with final position of deputy general manager of the department, including 3 years in ICBC’s Almaty Branch, where he was in charge of treasury, credit lending and office operations. Moreover, Mr. Zhang has 11 years of investment banking experience, served as an executive director of ICEA (the investment banking arm of ICBC) and the managing director of Alpha Alliance Finance Holdings, responsible for corporate finance and sales departments respectively.

Mr. Zhang is currently an independent non-executive director of Kingwisoft Technology Group Company Limited (formerly known as ZZ Technology Group Company Limited, Stock Code: 08295), a company whose shares are listed on the GEM of the Stock Exchange, and an independent non-executive director of China Brilliant Global Limited (Stock Code: 08026), a company whose shares are listed on the GEM of the Stock Exchange.

LUO Laura Ying (formerly known as Ying Luo), Member of Audit Committee, aged 58, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director and a member of the Audit Committee on 28 March 2023. Ms. Luo obtained a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Peking University in 1987 and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Toronto in 1991. Ms. Luo is a chartered financial analyst of the CFA Institute and a chartered professional accountant of the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia. Ms. Luo has over 20 years of experience in the investment field. From 1995 to 1999, Ms. Luo worked in various investment banks including Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia Limited as a research analyst. From November 1999 to July 2001, Ms. Luo was the head of China research of the research department of SG Securities (HK) Limited. From July 2001 to July 2013, Ms. Luo worked in Schroders Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited, with the last position held as a fund manager. From September 2013 to September 2019, Ms. Luo was the managing director and head of Hong Kong China equities of Barings Asset Management (Asia) Limited.

Ms. Luo is currently an investment director of GL China Equity HK Management Limited. Ms. Luo was previously a consultant of GL Capital Management Limited. Ms. Luo is currently an independent non-executive director of Central China New Life Limited (Stock Code: 09983) and China Medical System Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 00867), both being companies listed on the Stock Exchange.


SENIOR MANAGEMENT

MA Suqin, Susan, aged 50, was appointed as a deputy general manager of the Company on 28 March 2012. Ms. Ma holds a master of business administration degree (EMBA Program) from the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University and the HKUST Business School and a master’s degree in economics from Fudan University, and went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as a visiting scholar. She is a chartered financial analyst of the CFA Institute. Ms. Ma is a seasoned investment banker with over 12 years of investment banking experience in Hong Kong and mainland China. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Ma was the Chief Representative of the Beijing Representative Office of RBS Asia Corporate Finance Limited. Before that, Ms. Ma was engaged in overseas and mainland China investment banking businesses at Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited, China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Limited, Everbright Securities Company Limited and China Merchants Securities Co., Ltd. Ms. Ma is also a member of Social Enterprises Subcommittee of New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association.

CHEUNG Wah Lung, Warren, aged 43, was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company on 5 October 2020 and was appointed as the Company Secretary of the Company on 5 January 2021. Mr. Cheung graduated from the Simon Fraser University in Canada with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Mr. Cheung is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and an associate member of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries. Mr. Cheung has extensive experience in auditing, accounting, financial management and compliance management. Prior to joining the Company, he worked in the assurance and advisory business services department of Ernst & Young and served as the chief financial officer and company secretary of a listed company in Hong Kong.


Abbreviation:
“Stock Exchange” : The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited
“Tianjin Port Group”: Tianjin Port (Group) Co., Ltd.* (天津港(集團)有限公司)
“Tianjin Port Co.”: Tianjin Port Holdings Co., Ltd.* (天津港股份有限公司)