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MANAGEMENT TEAM OF THE TRUSTEE-MANAGER AND PROPERTY MANAGER

MR. RICHARD DAVID

Chief Executive Officer

Refer to the description under the section on the Board of Directors, page 12

MR. SIMON HARDINGROOTS

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Simon Harding-Roots is Chief Operating Officer of the Trustee-Manager and General Manager of Treasury Holdings Property Management Limited. He has overall responsibility for the development, leasing and asset management functions of the business across China.

Mr. Harding-Roots has over 20 years of international property experience. A qual i f ied Chartered Surveyor (MRICS), he specialises in developing and managing major mixed use real estate projects. He began his career in central London where he spent 8 years advising leading international property developers, occupiers and funds on strategic development opportunities. He subsequently relocated to Dubai, United Arab Emirates for 8 years where

he was responsible for some of the region’s most successful retail-led mixed use development projects for a leading real estate developer and operator. Mr. Harding-Roots subsequently spent two and a half years with an international investment and private equity firm in Bahrain establishing their development and asset portfolios. This included the award-winning ‘Bahrain Bay’ waterfront scheme, valued at US$2 billion.

Mr. Harding-Roots graduated from the University of Hull in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography and also holds a Masters degree from the University of East London in Land Development and Management.

MR. RICHARD DING

Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel

Mr. Richard Ding is the Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel of the Trustee-Manager since 2007. Mr. Ding has over 17 years of experience serving in a number of senior executive management and legal positions, with responsibilities encompassing general management,

investment management, legal risk management, corporate compliance, as well as corporate transaction negotiation and execution where he successfully led the completion of a wide range of corporate transactions, in particular, cross border corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and venture investments, particularly in China.

From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Ding served as General Counsel, and Director of Strategy and Corporate Transactions for Visteon Corporation’s Asia Pacific operations, where in addition to his responsibilities as senior legal officer in the region, Mr. Ding was responsible for formulating Visteon’s Asia Pacific strategy, and leading Visteon’s merger and acquisitions and joint venture efforts in the region. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Ding served as Managing Director of

Management Team of Trustee-Manager (From L to R: Mr. Richard Ding; Mr. Simon Harding-Roots; Ms. Wendy Yao Wei; Mr. Richard David; and Mr. Jerry Lee)