Mr. Ip Yuk-Keung, Albert

Appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director in June 2018. Mr. Ip is a member of the Audit Committee, the Nomination Committee and the Sustainability Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Ip is an independent non-executive director of Power Assets Holdings Limited and Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited, both being listed public companies in Hong Kong. He is also an independent non-executive director of Eagle Asset Management (CP) Limited, as manager of Champion Real Estate Investment Trust (a listed real estate investment trust) and an independent non-executive director of Lifestyle International Holdings Limited (a listed public company in Hong Kong until its delisting on 20 December 2022).  Mr. Ip is an international banking and real estate executive with 33 years of experience at Citigroup, First National Bank of Chicago, Wells Fargo and Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong, Asia and the United States. His areas of expertise are in real estate, corporate banking, risk management, transaction banking and wealth management. Mr. Ip is a Senior Advisor to the President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; a Special Advisor to the Dean of the School of Business and Management at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; an Adjunct Professor of City University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, and the Faculty of Business Administration at The Chinese University of Hong Kong; an Adjunct Distinguished Professor in Practice of University of Macau; Honorary Advisor of School of Humanities and Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; a Member of the Court at City University of Hong Kong; a Member of the Court at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; a member of the Science and Technology Council, Macau SAR; an Advisory Board Member for the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau; and the chairman of the HKUST Foundation. Mr. Ip holds a Bachelor of Science degree at Washington University in St. Louis (summa cum laude) and Master of Science degrees at Cornell University and Carnegie-Mellon University. He is an Honorary Fellow of City University of Hong Kong, Vocational Training Council and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.