Directors and Executive Officers

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Calvin Choi is our chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer, who has nearly 20 years of experience in the investment banking, international capital markets, and professional auditing sectors.

Mr. Choi is the non-executive director of Bank of Qingdao Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 3866 and SZSE: 002948), a company dual-listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. He is also the vice chairman of the Greater Bay Area Homeland Youth Community Foundation, the founder and chairman of Greater Bay Young Entrepreneurs Association, the founder and chairman of the Regional Banks+ Strategic Cooperation Alliance, the founder and chairman of AMTD Foundation, honorary president of Hong Kong Army Cadets Association, vice president of Hong Kong Federation of Professions, and director of OneChild Network & Support Inc.

Prior to joining AMTD, Mr. Choi worked at UBS as a managing director of the investment bank division. He was also the China chief specialist and the head of China strategic alliance unit of Citigroup.

In 2017, Mr. Choi was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He was also selected by the Institutional Investor magazine as one of the “2016 Fintech Finance 35” in 2016.

Marcellus Wong is our vice chairman of the board of directors, who has over 40 years of experience in accounting and taxation.

Mr. Wong holds a number of other positions including, independent non-executive director of SEHK-listed Xinte Energy Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 1799); senior advisor of PricewaterhouseCoopers; and a member of the Joint Liaison Committee on Taxation that advises the government of Hong Kong on tax issues.

Mr. Wong was the former president of the Taxation Institute of Hong Kong and the former president of CPA Australia-Hong Kong China Division. Prior to joining AMTD, Mr. Wong served as a member of the Working Group on the Long-Term Fiscal Planning of the government of Hong Kong. He was also a partner and compliance leader of PWC in Hong Kong and China as well as risk and quality leader for its tax practice in the Asia Pacific region.

Between 1999 and 2012, Mr. Wong had been consistently named by Euromoney as one of the ‘‘world’s leading tax advisers’’ in Hong Kong and China.

Philip Yau is our director and chief financial officer, who has over 22 years of experience in accounting, finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance audit, and risk management.

Prior to joining AMTD, Mr. Yau worked at Ernst & Young China Practice as a partner serving clients in Greater China, where he advised on finance, management, and business issues. He also worked at Protiviti Shanghai Co., Ltd. as a managing director and Shenzhen office leader, serving clients in Greater China, where he was primarily responsible for overall management of the company.

Yu Gao is our independent director. He joined Morgan Stanley Asia Limited in August 2005 and primarily focuses on private equity investment transactions in China. He is currently a managing director and co-head of China investment operations for Morgan Stanley private equity Asia. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he worked in Citigroup’s Asia-Pacific investment banking division, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette’s debt capital markets group in New York.

Mr. Gao is a non-executive director of SEHK-listed Sparkle Roll Group Limited (SEHK: 970). He also served as non-executive director and independent non-executive director of SEHK-listed China Dongxiang (Group) Co., Ltd. (SEHK: 3818); director of Shandong Buchang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (SSE: 603858) ; non-executive director and independent non-executive director of SEHK-listed Belle International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1880); and director of Tongkun Group Co., Ltd. (SSE: 601233).

Feridun Hamdullahpur is our independent director. Dr. Hamdullahpur has served as the sixth president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo since 2010. Dr. Hamdullahpur serves as a member of the strategic advisory board of Sorbonne University, and member of the international advisory board of King Abdulaziz University. He also serves as chair of the Waterloo Global Science Initiative.

In 2015, Dr. Hamdullahpur was appointed chair of the Leadership Council for Digital Infrastructure in Canada, he was also named a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in July 2014. Dr. Hamdullahpur was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in January 2013 in acknowledgement of his leadership in education and innovation.

William Fung is our chief investment officer of asset management who has over 15 years of experience in global debt capital markets including investing, syndicating, and executing capital markets transactions for Asian as well as global issuers.

Prior to joining AMTD, Mr. Fung used to work at UBS AG Hong Kong as an executive director. He also worked at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited and Lehman Brothers Asia Limited.

Tim Fang is our head of global markets who has around 12 years of experience in global debt capital markets including originating, structuring, and executing capital markets transactions for financial institutions, corporates and sovereigns or quasi-sovereign clients across Asia Pacific and Australia.

Prior to joining AMTD, Mr. Fang was the executive director and the head of FIG demand capital solutions Asia at UBS AG Hong Kong. Prior to that, Mr. Fang was an associate director of debt capital markets at UBS AG Australia from February 2007 to February 2010.

Gabriel Ming Lin Cheung is our head of global advisory and executions, who has approximately nine years of experience in investment banking and equity capital markets. Prior to joining AMTD, Mr. Cheung used to serve at Deutsche Bank AG Hong Kong branch and UBS AG Hong Kong branch.