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Management Team

Zhang Huaqiao

Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company

Zhang Huaqiao, aged 57, has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company since March 2012. As at the end of the Reporting Period, Mr. Zhang has been an independent non-executive director of Zhong An Group Limited (formerly known as Zhong An Real Estate Limited, stock code 00672), China Huirong Financial Holdings Limited (stock code 01290), Logan Group Company Limited (formerly known as Logan Property Holdings Company Limited,stock code 03380), Luye Pharma Group Ltd. (stock code 02186) and Radiance Holdings (Group) Company Limited (stock code 09993), all of which are listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. From July 1986 to January 1989, Mr. Zhang was employed at the People’s Bank of China and from June 1999 to April 2006, Mr. Zhang worked at the Equities Department of UBS AG, Hong Kong Branch at which he first served as the head of China research and later became co-head of China research. Mr. Zhang was the chief operating officer from March 2006 to September 2008 and an executive director from May 2006 to September 2008 of Shenzhen Investment Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with stock code 00604). From September 2008 to June 2011, he was deputy head of China Investment Banking at UBS Securities Asia Limited. Mr. Zhang was also a non-executive director of Boer Power Holdings Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with stock code 01685), an independent non-executive director of Yancoal Australia Ltd. (listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with stock code YAL), Wanda Hotel Development Company Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with stock code 00169), Sinopec Oilfield Service Corporation (listed on the SSE with stock code 600871 and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with stock code 01033) and China Rapid Finance Limited (listed on the New York Stock Exchange with stock code XRF), and a non-executive director, executive director and chairman of China Smartpay Group Holdings Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with stock code 08325). Mr. Zhang graduated from the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China with a master’s degree in economics in 1986; and from the Australian National University with a master’s degree in economics in 1991.