Mr. Xia Xinping (Independent Non-executive Director)
Mr. Xia Xinping (“Mr. Xia”), aged 58, has been an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company since May 2019. He is also the chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Currently, Mr. Xia is a professor at the Department of Finance under the College of Management of Huazhong University of Science and Technology and a mentor of doctoral candidates. He served as the vice director of the College of Management from 2003 to 2011; he also pursued further studies and conducted research as a visiting scholar at Harvard University in the U.S. as well as the University of Toronto and HEC Montréal in Canada. Mr. Xia served as a director of Wuhan HUST High-Tech Group, a member of the budget committee of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and an independent director of Shenzhen New Nanshan Holding (Group) Co., Ltd., Fiberhome Telecommunication Technologies Co., Ltd. and Hubei Fuxing Science and Technology Co., Ltd. He was also an independent director of Gemdale Corporation (Shanghai Stock Code: 600383), the controlling shareholder of the Company, from May 2009 to April 2017 and was the chairman of the audit committee as well as a member of the remuneration and assessment committee of the board of directors of that company from 2010 to 2017. Currently,
he serves as an independent director of Hubei Dinglong Holding Co., Ltd. (Shenzhen Stock Code:300054) and an independent non-executive director of Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc. (Hong Kong Stock Code: 09960). Mr. Xia graduated from Huazhong Institute of Technology in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990 with a master’s degree in management, and then from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2000 with a doctoral degree in management.