118 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS Independent Non-Executive Directors CHOI, Tak Kwan Thomas, aged 69, has been a Director of the Company since May 2019. He is a fellow of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in the United Kingdom and The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. He is also an Authorised Person (Surveyor). He was a member of the Appeal Tribunal Panel (Buildings) from December 2000 to November 2013. He was employed by the Company in Hong Kong from 1981 to 2002. He was employed by China Resources (Holdings) Company Limited and worked in the Chinese Mainland from 2002 until his retirement in 2016. FUNG, Spencer Theodore, aged 51, has been a Director of the Company since December 2012. He is Group Executive Chairman of Li & Fung. Prior to Li & Fung, Mr. Fung co- founded an eCommerce startup HelloAsia in Silicon Valley and was a manager in the Audit and Assurance team at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is also an Alternate Representative of Hong Kong, China to APEC Business Advisory Council and a member of the General Committee of The Hong Kong Exporters’ Association, Young Presidents’ Organization and the Board of Trustees at Northeastern University. WU, May Yihong, aged 57, has been a Director of the Company since May 2017. She is an Independent Director of Noah Holdings Limited, the Chairwoman of its Compensation Committee and a member of its Corporate Governance and Nomination Committee. Ms. Wu is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Alibaba Health Information Technology Limited, the Chairwoman of its Audit Committee and a member of its Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee, and an Independent Director of MakeMyTrip Limited, the Chairperson of its Audit Committee and a member of its Compensation Committee. She is also an Executive Director of Shanghai Sunnyview Eldercare Company Limited. She was Board Advisor of Homeinns Hotel Group from 2019 to 2023, its Chief Strategy Officer from 2010 to 2019 and its Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to 2010. YAN, Yan, aged 61, has been a Director of the Company since May 2024. She is a Managing Director of Rava Partners, an investment company that partners with entrepreneurs to build physical infrastructure in the growing sectors of Asia’s economy, such as logistics/ industrial, digital assets, life sciences/healthcare, education, and other specialised asset classes. She was Managing Director of Blackstone Asia from 2018 to 2020, during which time she focused on real asset investment and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that, Ms. Yan held various positions with SOHO China from 1996 to 2018 where she served as the company’s President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the company’s management, business development and project acquisitions. In the early part of her career, she had held various management roles in Henderson (China) Investment Co. Ltd. and the Sheraton Hotels group. Ms. Yan has over thirty years of experience in real asset investment, development, and operations. ZHU, Changlai Angela, aged 49, has been a Director of the Company since May 2023. She is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shanghai Dechang E-commerce Co., Ltd., trading as Chapter Home, a home lifestyle brand in the Chinese Mainland. She was a consultant and an Executive in Residence at Warburg Pincus Asia LLC, specialising in the consumer retail sector, and a Non-Executive Director of the Southeast Asia Retail Board of IKANO Pte Ltd from 2021 to 2022. Prior to these roles, she worked for the IKEA Group from 1996 to 2021 and held various positions including Global Commercial Director of IKEA Retail Services AB from 2018 to 2021 and Chief Executive Officer of China of IKEA (China) Investment Co., Ltd. from 2013 to 2018. Company Secretary LOMAS, Bernadette Mak, aged 59, has been Company Secretary since February 2022. She is also Group General Counsel of the Swire Pacific Limited group. She is qualified to practise law in the Hong Kong SAR and in the State of New York. Prior to joining the Swire Pacific Limited group, she was Group General Counsel and Company Secretary of a leading Hong Kong listed company. Notes: 1. The Audit Committee comprises May Wu (committee chairman), Spencer Fung and Martin Murray. 2. The Nomination Committee comprises Angela Zhu (committee chairman), Thomas Choi and Adam Fenwick. 3. The Remuneration Committee comprises Spencer Fung (committee chairman), Thomas Choi and Adam Fenwick. 4. Tim Blackburn, Guy Bradley, Fanny Lung, Mabelle Ma, Martin Murray, Richard Sell and Merlin Swire are employees of the John Swire & Sons Limited group.