Mr. Benny KWONG, aged 65, joined the Group in February 2021 as the Non-executive Director and was then appointed as the Non-executive Chairman of the Company in April 2021. Subsequently, he was redesignated as an executive director of the Company in November 2021 and has concurrently been the executive Chairman since then. He was then appointed as the Managing Director on 1 July 2023. Mr. Kwong is a director of a member of the Group. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Mr. KWONG held senior positions with major international banks in Hong Kong in respective lending departments and China department and has served as executive director of various listed companies in Hong Kong. Mr. KWONG has extensive experience and knowledge in banking and financial services industry. Mr. KWONG was an appointed member of the China People’s Political Consultative Conference of the Hubei Province and Zhaoqing City of the Guangdong Province. He is the Audit Committee member of Tung Wah College since 2013 and was the Hospital Governing Committee member of Tai Po Hospital from 2012 to 31 March 2021. He was an executive director of Tai United Holdings Limited (0718.HK), a company listed on the Stock Exchange from April 2018 to January 2022. He was an independent non-executive director of Planetree International Development Limited (0613.HK), a company listed on the Stock Exchange, from April 2019 to April 2020 and became a non-executive director from April 2020 to 17 February 2021.