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Guoco Group Limited

Quek Leng Chan
Executive Chairman

Aged 64, Mr Quek has been the Executive Chairman of Guoco Group Limited ("Guoco") since 1990. Mr Quek is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Hong Leong Company (Malaysia) Berhad ("HLCM"), the ultimate holding company of Guoco, and he sits on the boards of directors of the major public listed companies of HLCM. Mr Quek qualified as a Barrister-at-Law from Middle Temple, United Kingdom and has extensive business experience in various business sectors including financial services, manufacturing and real estate. Mr Quek is also the Chairman of HL Holdings Sdn Bhd. He is a brother of Messrs Kwek Leng Hai and Kwek Leng San.

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Kwek Leng Hai
President and CEO

Aged 54, Mr Kwek is the President, CEO of Guoco and has been an Executive Director of Guoco since 1990. He is also a director of the Group's key subsidiaries and associated companies including GuocoLand Limited ("GLL"), Camerlin Group Berhad, GuocoLeisure Limited (formerly known as "BIL International Limited") and Hong Leong Bank Berhad. He also serves as the Chairman of Lam Soon (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr Kwek qualified as a chartered accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Mr Kwek is also a director of HLCM. He is a brother of Messrs Quek Leng Chan and Kwek Leng San.

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Sat Pal Khattar
Independent Non-executive Director

Aged 64, Mr Khattar has been an Independent Non-executive Director of Guoco since 1991. He is also the Chairman of GLL, a subsidiary of Guoco in Singapore, and holds directorships in other public and private companies in Singapore and elsewhere. Mr Khattar obtained a LLM degree and a LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Singapore. He now chairs Khattar Holdings Pte Ltd, an investment group based in Singapore.

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Kwek Leng San
Non-executive Director

Aged 52, Mr Kwek has been a Non-executive Director of Guoco since 1990. He is the President and CEO of Hong Leong Industries Berhad, a member of the Hong Leong Group Malaysia. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and a Master of Science degree in finance. Mr Kwek is also a director of HLCM. He is a brother of Messrs Quek Leng Chan and Kwek Leng Hai.

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Tan Lim Heng
Executive Director

Aged 59, Mr Tan joined Dao Heng Securities Limited and Dao Heng Commodities Limited, wholly owned subsidiaries of Guoco, as the Managing Director in 1990, and has been an Executive Director of Guoco since 1996. He also serves as a non-executive director of Lam Soon (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr Tan holds a Bachelor of Science first class honours degree in engineering from University of Surrey and a Master of Science degree in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He had also previously worked in Geneva in 1974 with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Prior to joining Guoco, he had served in the Singapore Civil Service as a Colombo Plan Scholar 1975 - 1978 before coming to work in Hong Kong with a financial services company and a major U.S. bank. Mr Tan has extensive experience in property investment, financial and investment management services.

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James Eng, Jr.
Executive Director

Aged 65, Mr Eng has been an Executive Director of Guoco since 2001 and is responsible for all Group staff support functions for Guoco. He joined Guoco Management Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Guoco, in 1994 as an executive director. Prior to joining Guoco, Mr Eng worked with Hiram Walker, a Division of Allied-Lyons. Postings included New York, Miami, London, Hong Kong and Windsor Canada. During his time with Brout, Issacs & Co., Certified Public Accountants in New York City, he was responsible for the Management Services Division and was a Management Consultant in New York for Computer Methods Corporation.

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Volker Stoeckel
Independent Non-executive Director

Aged 62, Mr Stoeckel has been an Independent Non-executive Director of Guoco since 2004. He was a banker in various senior banking positions in Asia for over 26 years. In 2007, he took up a position as Chairman, CEO of Metal Cast (Zhong Shan) Limited. Before that he was Chairman, CEO of German Centre for Industry and Trade in Shanghai and Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Asia Pacific of Bayerische Landesbank in Hong Kong. Mr Stoeckel has wide experience in Asia relating to capital market transactions, corporate finance, project finance, mergers and acquisitions, treasury and securities business and planning and management of real estate and industrial projects in China. He graduated from the University of Munich in economics and holds a diploma in banking.

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Ding Wai Chuen
Independent Non-executive Director

Aged 47, Mr Ding has been an Independent Non-executive Director of Guoco since 2006. He also serves as an independent non-executive director of Lam Soon (Hong Kong) Limited. Mr Ding is a Partner of Grant Thornton, Certified Public Accountants. He is an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr Ding had worked for international firms of accountants in England and in Hong Kong for over 11 years before joining the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("HKICPA") in 1994 as the Head of the Professional Compliance Division. His main responsibilities at the HKICPA were monitoring and enforcing compliance with the HKICPA's professional standards. Mr Ding is recently appointed by the Hong Kong SAR Government as a member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the Financial Reporting Council. Since 2002, Mr Ding has been appointed by the PRC Ministry of Finance as a member of the Advisory Group of Foreign Experts for drafting PRC's Independent Auditing Standards. Since the beginning of 2007, he has been involved, as an advisor, in the joint projects between HKICPA and PRC Ministry of Finance for the comparison of Hong Kong and PRC accounting and auditing standards. Mr Ding was appointed by the Hong Kong SAR Government of the PRC as a member of the Commission on Strategic Development in November 2005 and as a member of the Central Policy Unit Panel on the Pan-Pearl River Delta in January 2006. Mr Ding has been a committee member of a number of Committees of the HKICPA, responsible for enacting and enforcing of the accounting standards of the HKICPA.

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