Mr. TANG Kwai Chang (鄧貴彰), aged 70, was appointed as our independent non-executive Director on November 4, 2016. He is primarily responsible for supervising and providing independent judgment for the Board. Mr. Tang is a fellow member of both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (admitted on November 8, 1984) and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (certified on February 23, 1988). Mr. Tang has also been a member of the disciplinary panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants since August 2008 which term has come to an end as informed by the Institute on January 31, 2023, and is a convenor of the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the Accounting and Financial Reporting Council.

Mr. Tang has over 35 years of experience in accounting, auditing and audit risk management, including holding senior management positions as vice chairman of Deloitte China and a member of the board of Deloitte Global. He joined Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu) as an audit trainee in 1976, and left in July 1980 as a senior accountant. Mr. Tang joined GPI (Holdings) Limited, a company engaged in the manufacturing and trading of electronics and electrical products, as an assistant finance manager in August 1980. Mr. Tang re-joined Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in January 1982 as a senior accountant, became a partner in April 1988, and practiced as a certified public accountant. During his 35 years at Deloitte, Mr. Tang was responsible for providing audit and audit related services as well as undertaking management and governance roles within the firm, until he retired in May 2013.

Mr. Tang obtained his diploma in accounting from Hong Kong Baptist College (currently known as Hong Kong Baptist University (“HKBU”)) in June 1976. He was an honorary member of the Court of HKBU from January 2007 to December 2011, and a member of the Court of HKBU from November 2011 to October 2020. He was further appointed as an honorary member of the Court of HKBU for another 5 years from 2021. He was conferred with the Honorary University Fellowship by HKBU in 2017.

Since September 24, 2014, Mr. Tang has been an independent non-executive director and the chairman of the audit committee of HKR International Limited (香港興業國際集團有限公司), a company listed on the Stock Exchange (stock code: 480). In addition, since April 1, 2017, Mr. Tang has been an independent non-executive director of Bank of Communications (Hong Kong) Limited (交通銀行(香港)有限公司), a company involved in the financial services industry, and Mr. Tang is also the chairman of its audit committee. He was also appointed as an independent non-executive director of BCOM Finance (Hong Kong) Limited on December 16, 2020, which is also involved in the financial service industry. Furthermore, Mr. Tang is also currently a director for the following two subsidiaries under China Baowu Steel Group Corporation Limited (中國寶武鋼鐵集團有限公司), a company involved in the steel manufacturing industry: Baowu Resources Co., Ltd (formerly known as Baosteel Resources Co., Ltd (since July 21, 2016) and Baosteel Resources International Company Limited (since August 16, 2016). In addition, since December 15, 2017, Mr. Tang has been an independent non-executive director and also the chairman of the audit committee of Tsit Wing International Holdings Limited (捷榮國際控股有限公司), a company listed on the Stock Exchange (stock code: 2119) and a leading provider of integrated B2B coffee and black tea solutions.