Kong Siu Chee

Mr. Kong Siu Chee, aged 65, was appointed to our Board on November 30, 2006. He is also the chairman of the remuneration committee and a member of the nominating committee and the investment committee. Mr. Kong obtained a bachelor’s degree in arts from HKU in November 1969 and a master degree in business administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in December 1980. He is an associate of The Chartered Institute of Bankers in the United Kingdom. Mr. Kong began his career in 1969 with Standard Chartered Bank, where he served in various managerial positions for 24 years. In 1993, he pursued his new business interest in the telecommunications sector and was a director of Champion Technology Holdings Limited from 1993 to 1994 and a director of Kantone U.K. Ltd. from 1994 to 1996. Between 1999 and 2005, he served as a director, executive vice president and alternate chief executive officer of CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited, and was also a director and the managing director of CITIC International Financial Holdings Limited from 2002 to 2005.