ESR Group Limited Annual Report 2022 55 Independent Non-executive Director Date of first appointment as Director: 20 May 2019 Mr Simon James MCDONALD, 60 Independent Non-executive Director Date of first appointment as Director: 20 May 2019 Mr Brett Harold KRAUSE, 54 Mr Simon James McDonald is an independent non-executive Director and also the chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. He was appointed as an independent non-executive Director on 20 May 2019. Mr McDonald has extensive experience in real estate and management in Asia Pacific and was the head of asset management at Asia Pacific Land from February 2015 to May 2019, and was responsible for the day-to-day oversight of Asia Pacific Land’s asset management activities. Prior to this, Mr McDonald held various roles at GE Capital Real Estate, in Sydney in Australia and Tokyo in Japan, from August 1997 to September 2013, including Managing Director Asia Pacific (Portfolio Strategy), Managing Director Asia Pacific (Asset Management), Managing Director Asia Pacific (Risk Management), Joint Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand, and Director (Risk Management). Mr McDonald graduated from The Australian National University in Australia in May 1987, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in economics. In May 1991, he further obtained a master of business from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. Mr McDonald is a member of CPA Australia since April 1987, and subsequently became a fellow member since May 2014. He has also been a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia since June 2005. In addition, Mr McDonald is a member and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors since August 2013 and May 2014, respectively. STRATEGIC REPORT CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL STATEMENT Mr Brett Harold Krause is an independent non-executive Director and also the chairman of the Remuneration Committee and the Nomination Committee, as well as a member of the Audit Committee. He was appointed as an independent non-executive Director on 20 May 2019. Mr Krause has extensive experience in the banking industry in Asia and in corporate management. Mr Krause joined Transcend Fund (a venture capital firm) in August 2022 and currently is a general partner. He has been a chairperson of Xterio (a global cross-platform play-and-earn developer and publisher) since May 2022. Mr Krause served as Chief Investment Officer of FunPlus from March 2018 to August 2022. Founded in 2010, FunPlus is a world-class, independent game developer and publisher headquartered in Switzerland and with operations in China, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Prior to FunPlus, Mr Krause was the Managing Partner at PurpleSky Capital LLC, a China-based angel venture capital firm specializing in funding start-ups in igh-tech sectors, from July 2016 to February 2018. Mr Krause was the President of JPMorgan Chase Bank (China) Co. Ltd. from January 2014 to July 2016. Prior to that from August 1996 until December 2013, he held various leadership roles at Citigroup, where he served as Citi Country Officer for Citibank Vietnam from 2008 to 2013. Mr Krause has been an independent board director of East West Bank (China) Limited (wholly owned subsidiary of East West Bank) since November 2017 and he was an independent board director of Vincom Retail Joint Stock Company (listed in Vietnam) from September 2017 to December 2020. Mr Krause graduated from Georgetown University in the United States in May 1991, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in foreign service. In May 1996, he further obtained a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia Business School of Columbia University in the United States.
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