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Professor Roger KING, aged 70, has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company since March 2000, and was an Executive Director of the Company from 1992. He is a member of the Finance Committee of the Company since 4th March 2008. He was a Director of Orient Overseas (Holdings) Limited (“OOHL”) from 1983 to 1992 and the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of OOHL from 1985 to 1987. Professor King is a graduate of the University of Michigan, BSEE, New York University, MSEE; Harvard Business School, AMP; and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (“HKUST”), PhD in Finance. He is an Adjunct Professor of Finance, Director of Centre for Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies and Director of Centre for Business Case Studies at HKUST. He was the 2011 recipient of Honorary Fellowship from HKUST on 24th June 2011. Prior to joining OOHL in 1974, he served in the United States Navy and worked in computer research and management consultancy at Bell Telephone Laboratories and John Diebold, respectively.
Professor King is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of Sincere Watch (Hong Kong) Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange), a member of the Supervisory Board of TNT Express N.V. (listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange) and the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Hong Kong.
Professor King was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (listed on the New York Stock Exchange), a member of the Supervisory Board of TNT N.V. (listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and renamed to PostNL N.V.), Chairman and founder of System-Pro Computers Limited, one of the largest personal computer reseller in Hong Kong, Chairman of Pacific Coffee Limited, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sa Sa International Holdings Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange), Independent Non-Executive Director and a member of Audit Committee of China LotSynergy Holdings Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) and a member of the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Province People's Political Consultative Conference.
Professor King is the brother-in-law of Mr. Tung Chee Hwa who has an interest in a trust which has an indirect interest in the substantial shareholders of the Company, and Mr. Tung Chee Chen, Chairman of the Company; and an uncle of Mr. Tung Lieh Sing Alan, an Executive Director of the Company, and Mr. Tung Lieh Cheung Andrew, an Executive Director of the Company, and the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Orient Overseas Container Line Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.
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