DIRECTORS’ REPORT DIRECTORS Directors of the Company during the year ended 31 December 2021 and up to the date of this report are as follows: Executive Directors Date of Appointment Mr Jinchu SHEN (Co-CEO) 30 June 2011 Mr Stuart GIBSON (Co-CEO) 20 January 2016 Non-executive Directors Mr Jeffrey David PERLMAN (Chairman of the Board) 14 June 2011 Mr Charles Alexander PORTES 20 January 2016 Mr Wei HU 2 February 2021 Mr David Alasdair William MATHESON 30 March 2021 Mr Hwee Chiang LIM 20 January 2022 Mr Kwok Hung Justin CHIU 20 January 2022 Mr Rajeev Veeravalli KANNAN 20 January 2022 Mr Zhenhui WANG 10 May 2018 (resigned with effect from 15 January 2021) Independent Non-executive Directors Mr Brett Harold KRAUSE 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) The Right Honourable Sir Hugo George William SWIRE, KCMG 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) Mr Simon James MCDONALD 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) Ms Jingsheng LIU 20 May 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) Mr Robin Tom HOLDSWORTH 14 October 2019 (effective on 22 October 2019) During the reporting year, and up to the date of this report, Mr Zhenhui Wang resigned as Non-executive Director with effect from 15 January 2021. Mr Wei Hu and Mr David Alasdair William Matheson were appointed as Non-executive Directors with effect from 2 February 2021 and 30 March 2021 respectively. With effect from 20 January 2022, Mr Hwee Chiang Lim, Mr Kwok Hung Justin Chiu and Mr Rajeev Veeravalli Kannan, who were appointed as Non-executive Directors. Saved as aforesaid, there was no other change of Directors of the Company during the year. Biographical details of the Directors and senior management of the Company are set out in the sections headed “Board of Directors” and “Group Leadership Team & Business Leadership Team” respectively on pages 52 to 53 of this annual report. In accordance with article 108(a) of the Articles of Association of the Company, at each annual general meeting one-third of the Directors for the time being, or, if their number is not three or a multiple of three, then the number nearest to but not less than one-third, shall retire from office by rotation provided that every Director (including those appointed for a specific term) shall be subject to retirement by rotation at least once every three years. A retiring Director shall be eligible for re-election. The Company at the general meeting at which a director retires may fill the vacated office. Article 108(b) of the Articles of Association of the Company also provides that the Directors to retire by rotation shall include (so far as necessary to obtain the number required) any Director who wishes to retire and not to offer himself for re-election. Any Director who has not been subject to retirement by rotation in the three years preceding the annual general meeting shall retire by rotation at such annual general meeting. Any further Directors so to retire shall be those who have been longest in office since their last re-election or appointment and so that as between persons who became or were last re-elected Directors on the same day those to retire shall (unless they otherwise agree among themselves) be determined by lot. R E A C H I N G N E W H E I G H T S 96
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