List of Directors & Their Roles & Functions

The members of the board of directors ("Board") of Kerry Properties Limited are set out below:

Executive Directors

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  Mr KUOK Khoon Hua, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

  

  Aged 43, has been the Chairman of the Company since May 2022 and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company since June 2019. He is also the chairman of the Company’s Nomination Committee, a member of the Company’s Remuneration Committee, Finance Committee and Executive Committee. Prior to his appointment as the Chairman, Mr Kuok was the Vice Chairman of the Company from June 2019 to May 2022 and a Non-executive Director of the Company from June 2015 to May 2019. Mr Kuok is the chairman of Kerry Holdings Limited (“KHL”) and a director of Kerry Group Limited (“KGL”) and Kuok (Singapore) Limited. Both KHL and KGL are the controlling shareholders of the Company. Mr Kuok is the vice chairman and a non-executive director of Kerry Logistics Network Limited (a listed company in Hong Kong). He is also a non-executive and non-independent director of Wilmar International Limited (a listed company in Singapore) and a director of Sea Limited (a listed company in New York). Mr Kuok holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University. He is the brother-in-law of Mr Bryan Pallop Gaw, an Executive Director of the Company.

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  Mr AU Hing Lun, Dennis, Deputy Chief Executive Officer

  

  Aged 62, has been the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director of the Company since May 2022. He is also a member of the Company’s Executive Committee and Finance Committee.

  Mr Au has over 35 years of experience in accounting, finance, consultancy, business development and general management spanning across manufacturing, technology and real estate industries. Prior to joining the Company, Mr Au was the managing director of real estate of the Chinachem Group where he headed up its real estate businesses from 2019 to 2022. Mr Au was appointed as a non-executive director of ENM Holdings Limited (a listed company in Hong Kong), a related company of the Chinachem Group from August 2020 to April 2022. Prior to joining the Chinachem Group, Mr Au worked for Computime Group Limited (“Computime”) (a listed company in Hong Kong) where he held various senior positions, including executive director, deputy chief executive officer and a member of the executive committee. Before Computime, Mr Au spent almost 20 years at Wing Tai Properties Limited (a listed company in Hong Kong) and held various senior roles including chief financial officer, company secretary, executive director and managing director of its property division. Mr Au was also an executive director of Wing Tai Properties Limited’s subsidiary, Winsor Properties Holdings Limited (a listed company in Hong Kong, now known as Vanke Property (Overseas) Limited) from 2007 to 2012. In the early stages of his career, Mr Au worked for the tax division of Arthur Andersen & Co. and later on Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture plc), providing advisory on tax, IT system design and integration projects for governments and multinational companies. Mr Au is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Science degree from Dalhousie University in Canada.

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  Mr Bryan Pallop GAW

  

  Aged 45, has been an Executive Director of the Company since 2012 and is a member of the Company’s Executive Committee. Mr Gaw has previous experience in private equity, management consulting, strategic planning and business development. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Princeton University and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Mr Gaw is the brother-in-law of Mr Kuok Khoon Hua, the Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

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  Ms Serene Siew Noi NAH, Chief Financial Officer

  

  Aged 42, has been an Executive Director of the Company since October 2021 and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company since September 2020. She is also a member of the Company’s Finance Committee and Executive Committee. She was the Chief Strategy Officer of the Company from October 2019 to August 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Ms Nah was Head of Portfolio Management, Asia of SilverLake Partners, where she worked closely with portfolio company executives on value creation and Asian expansion initiatives. Prior to SilverLake Partners, she has spent ten years at General Electric in finance, M&A and various transformation teams. In her last role as Chief Financial Officer of GE Capital Greater China, she spearheaded the build out of GE’s commercial and consumer finance businesses in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Ms Nah is also an independent non-executive director of ESR Cayman Limited (a listed company in Hong Kong). Ms Nah graduated from The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with a Bachelor degree in Business Studies, and also holds an Executive Master of Business Administration from Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program.

Independent Non-Executive Directors

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  Ms WONG Yu Pok, Marina, JP

  

  Aged 73, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since 2008. She is now the chairman of the Company’s Audit and Corporate Governance Committee and Remuneration Committee and also a member of the Company’s Nomination Committee. She had been with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 30 years specialising in the PRC tax and business advisory services, and has extensive experience in advising both Hong Kong and foreign investors in the structuring of their businesses and investments in the PRC. Ms Wong joined Tricor Services Limited as a director from 2004 to 2006 after her retirement as a partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2004. Ms Wong is now an independent non-executive director of Kerry Logistics Network Limited, Hong Kong Ferry (Holdings) Company Limited, Luk Fook Holdings (International) Limited and SJM Holdings Limited (all of which are listed companies in Hong Kong). She is a Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

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  Mr HUI Chun Yue, David

  

  Aged 50, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since May 2020. He is now a member of the Company’s Audit and Corporate Governance Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee. Mr Hui is the Partner in charge of the Hong Kong office of Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ stock market) and is the Regional Managing Partner of the Industrial Practice for Asia Pacific and the Middle East and leads the Chief Executive Officer and Board Practice in Hong Kong. He has over 20 years of experience in executive search and consulting globally and across the Asia Pacific region in the industrial and financial services sectors. Earlier in his career, Mr Hui was a banking and finance lawyer at Allen & Overy and Baker McKenzie. He is qualified to practise as a solicitor in England, Wales and Hong Kong. Mr Hui holds a Bachelor of Law with joint honors in Law and Chinese Studies from the University of Leeds, a Master of Law from the University of London and an Executive Master of Business Administration from Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA program.

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  Mr CHEUNG Leong

  

  Aged 50, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since May 2022. He is now a member of the Company’s Audit and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr Cheung is the executive director of Charities & Community at The Hong Kong Jockey Club (“HKJC”) since 2014 and responsible for the HKJC Charities Trust. He is also the co-chair of the Hong Kong Chapter of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the co-founder of RunOurCity, an innovative social enterprise with the aim of transforming life through running. Prior to joining the HKJC, Mr Cheung was an operating partner at Bain Capital. Prior to that, he was the managing director of Global Sourcing & Supply Chain at Esquel Group, and a senior consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. Mr Cheung serves as the chairperson of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s Committee on Reduction of Salt and Sugar in Food, and a director of Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited. Mr Cheung graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Business Administration and obtained a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

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  Mr CHUM Kwan Lock, Grant

  

  Aged 46, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since May 2022. He is now a member of the Company’s Audit and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr Chum is the chief operating officer and an executive director of Sands China Ltd. (a listed company in Hong Kong). Prior to joining the Las Vegas Sands group in 2013, Mr Chum spent 14 years at UBS Investment Bank in a variety of roles, including serving as managing director, head of Hong Kong Equity Research and head of China Equity Research. He was named the top stock picker of the year in Asia by the Financial Times in 2011. Mr Chum graduated in Philosophy, Politics and Economics with First Class Honors from the University of Oxford.

There are five Board committees. The membership information of these committees on which each Board member serves are set out below:

Audit and Corporate Governance Committee

• Ms WONG Yu Pok, Marina, JP, Chairman
• Mr HUI Chun Yue, David
• Mr CHEUNG Leong
• Mr CHUM Kwan Lock, Grant

Remuneration Committee

• Ms WONG Yu Pok, Marina, JP, Chairman
• Mr KUOK Khoon Hua
• Mr HUI Chun Yue, David

Nomination Committee

• Mr KUOK Khoon Hua, Chairman
• Ms WONG Yu Pok, Marina, JP
• Mr HUI Chun Yue, David

Finance Committee

• Mr KUOK Khoon Hua
• Mr AU Hing Lun, Dennis
• Ms Serene Siew Noi NAH

Executive Committee

• Mr KUOK Khoon Hua
• Mr AU Hing Lun, Dennis
• Mr Bryan Pallop GAW
• Ms Serene Siew Noi NAH