44 STRENGTH IN UNITY Executive Director, Group Co-founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer Date of first appointment as Director: 20 January 2016 Mr Stuart GIBSON, 60 Non-executive Director and Group Co-founder Date of first appointment as Director: 20 January 2016 Mr Charles Alexander PORTES, 54 Mr Stuart Gibson is a co-founder of ESR Group, and was the co-founder and CEO of the Redwood group from July 2006 until the 2016 Merger, and he has been the Co-CEO of the Group since January 2016. He was appointed as a Director on 20 January 2016 and is responsible for overseeing ESR’s overall operations and business development. Mr Gibson was re-designated as an Executive Director on 22 February 2019. Mr Gibson is also a director of various subsidiaries of the Group. He was appointed as a non-executive director of ESR-LOGOS Funds Management (S) Limited (the manager of ESR-LOGOS REIT which is listed in Singapore) since August 2023. Mr Gibson has been an independent director of SYLA Technologies Co., Ltd. (listed on Nasdaq) since July 2023. Mr Gibson has over 28 years of real estate development and investment experience in Asia, which includes 15 years spent in the Japanese industrial real estate sector. Mr Gibson joined Prologis B.V. (formerly known as LogiStar B.V.) in 1998 as the development associate, and was subsequently seconded from Prologis B.V. to Prologis Japan as a vice president from 2000 and was later promoted to the country head of Prologis Japan. He is the former co-founder and co-CEO of AMB BlackPine from 2003 to 2006, which was subsequently incorporated into Prologis. He was also the chairman of AMB Property Corporation Japan Advisory Committee from July 2006 to December 2007. Mr Charles Alexander Portes, also known as Charles de Portes, is a co-founder of the Group and was the co-founder and president of the Redwood group from July 2006 until the merger between e-Shang Cayman Limited, ESR Singapore Pte. Ltd. (formerly known as Redwood Group Asia Pte. Ltd.) and Redwood Asian Investments Ltd. pursuant to a merger agreement in January 2016, and he was the President of the Group from January 2016 to December 2020. He was appointed as a Director of the Group on 20 January 2016 and was responsible for overseeing the Group's overall private equity capital raising and operations and business development. He was re-designated as an Executive Director on 22 February 2019. With effect from 1 January 2021, he was re-designated from the Group’s President and an Executive Director to a Non-executive director, and Chairman Emeritus of the Company’s Capital Committee. Mr Portes has over 27 years of real estate investment experience, including more than 20 years in the logistics and new economy sectors in Asia. Mr Portes was the co-founder and co-CEO of AMB BlackPine from 2003 to 2006, which was subsequently incorporated into Prologis and was a member of the AMB Property Japan Advisory Committee from June 2006 to August 2008. Mr Portes was the head of acquisitions and capital for Europe and Asia for Prologis from 1998 to 2003 and he worked in real estate, principally in investments, at Goldman Sachs Investment Holdings (Asia) Limited from 1996 to 1998. Mr Portes graduated from The John Hopkins University in the United States in May 1991, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in international political economy. In July 1996, he further obtained a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD, France.
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