Executive Officers

Bing Lin, 49
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Mr. Lin has more than 18 years of investment and research experience. Since 2018, he has served as a Managing Director of Protocol Asset Management (HK) Limited, an activism hedge fund manager based in Hong Kong. From February 2016 to December 2017, he served as a Managing Director of CM Asset Management (Hongkong) Company Limited. From November 2014 to December 2015, Mr. Lin founded and managed Gaohui Fund, a pan-Asia long/short equity fund. From February 2012 to October 2014, Mr. Lin was an Executive Director and a member of the investment committee of Keywise Capital Management (HK) Limited. From November 2004 to December 2011, Mr. Lin was a Principal and Chief Investment Officer of MICH Investments Limited. From August 2004 to October 2005, Mr. Lin was a Portfolio Manager for SSgA’s Emerging Market Equity group. SSgA is one of the largest institutional asset managers worldwide. From September 2002 to July 2004, Mr. Lin was a research analyst of Joho Capital, LLC in New York. From January 1998 to August 2000, Mr. Lin was a CPA at Ernst & Young LLP in the United States. Mr. Lin received a B.A. in Accounting from Franklin University in 1996, an M.S. in accounting from Kent State University in 1997, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 2002. He lectures at Peking University as an Adjunct Professor and is a standing committee member of the Shanghai Finance Federation.

Qi Zhao, 48
Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Zhao has more than 13 years of investment and financial background. She has served as founding partner and managing director at Singularity Financial Limited since May 2018, a fintech platform serving Investor Relations and ESG communication in Asia. Ms. Zhao joined Alpine River Capital Management as Investor Relations Manager from June 2010 to March 2016. From January 2008 to December 2009, Ms. Zhao was the Senior Vice President for investment banking division of both SBI E2Capital and Oriental Patron, focusing Hong Kong capital markets in the areas of equity sales, fundraising, and investor relations. Prior to it, from August 1997 to June 2007, Ms. Zhao also held various technical consulting roles for companies including Kingston Technologies, Software AG, previously known as webMethods Inc., serving clients including AT&T, Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard in the U.S. Ms. Zhao holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Franklin University and a B.A. degree in Journalism from Xiamen University.

Man Chak Leung, 42
President and Director

Since August 2019, he has been serving as the General Manager of China Seven Star Holdings Limited, an investment holding company focusing consumer and healthcare sectors in China. Mr. Leung serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Metal Sky Star Acquisition Corporation since June 2021. Mr. Leung served as consultant to Silk Road Finance Corporation from May to December 2020. Mr. Leung served as Co-Head of Risk and Portfolio Management at China Minsheng Financial Holding Corporation Limited (“CM Financial”) from 2017 to May 2019, a Hong Kong mainboard listed financial holding platform. He is responsible for all portfolio including primary and secondary, fixed income and other special situations including SPAC. Mr. Leung joined CM Financial in December 2016 from TPG Growth, a global mid-market private equity firm with over US$ 15 billion AUM, where he spent 10 years as investment professional specializing in Healthcare, Financial Services, TMT, Consumer and Education in Greater China and South East Asia. Prior to that, he was with the Hong Kong office of the Cathay Capital Group between 2001 to 2006. He has cumulated extensive transaction experience including investments into eToro, Masan Group, FPT, ShangPharma, NT Pharma, Ivy Education Group, Vinda Paper and Rayli Magazine. He has also served on the board of the Ivy Education Group, a K12 Education Group in China between September 2015 to February 2017, CM SPC and CM Asset Management (Hongkong) Company Limited between July 2018 to May 2019 and CM International Financial Leasing Investment Holding Company Limited between January 2018 to November 2019. Mr. Leung holds a Bachelor of Business and Administration (Finance) from City University of Hong Kong.

Hiu Tung Kristy Chan, 26
Vice President

She holds a California Real Estate Salesperson License. Since August 2020, she has been working as independent consultant of business development and, merger and acquisition on freelance basis while pursuing further study in Master of Arts at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco since February 2021. From February 2018 to August 2020, through arrangements with the financial advisory firm Sanuk Mak and the commercial real estate firm Kidder Mathews, she had worked on several commercial real estate projects relating to co-living, hospitality and repositioning a country club to the millennial market. In 2015, Ms. Chan participated in various private placements and fund raising for different clients through China Everbright International Securities, Global Capital Markets Department, in Hong Kong. Ms. Chan holds a Master of Science degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of San Francisco.

Board of Directors

Gang Li, 51
Director Nominee

Mr. Li has been a Partner of Wilson Financial Holding Group, a licensed financial group in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (“HKSFC”) Types 1, 4, 6 and 9 licenses, an insurance broker license and a trust company license, since October 2019 . From September 2016 to March 2018, Mr. Li served as a Vice President of DTXS Silk Road Investment Holdings Company, a Hong Kong mainboard listed company. During the same period, he also served as Executive Director for MF Finance Limited, an affiliate company of DTXS Silk Road Investment Holdings Company. From May 2014 to July 2016, Mr. Li served as the Director of Commodity Business, CMBC International Holdings Limited. From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Li served as a General Partner of Beijing Huashan Capital Management Center Partners, a private equity fund and a fund management platform established under the Huashan Club of Minsheng Bank. Prior to that, between 2008 to 2011, Mr. Li was a Managing Director of Canada Wealth Management Company, a licensed third-party wealth management company providing high-end wealth management products and services in Vancouver. From 1993 to 2001, Mr. Li has held various managerial positions with China International Futures Co., Ltd. Mr. Li holds a Graduate Diploma of Accounting from McGill University, Montreal and a Bachelor of Business Administration (Investment Management) from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics in Dalian, China.

Jonathan Weiyan Seah, 52
Director Nominee

Dr. Seah has over 25 years of experience in clinical medicine, investment banking, private equity, and general management in the US, China, and Southeast Asia. Dr. Seah is currently the Chairman of LifeHealth Group (Hong Kong), a healthcare startup of which he co-founded in July 2018. Dr. Seah has served as Managing Director of IXL Capital since February 2014. Dr. Seah had served as a Managing Partner for Living Ventures Inc. from January 2009 to December 2018. Living Ventures Inc. is a private advisory company focusing on the healthcare sector, and was the sole advisor to the owners of the Quality Healthcare group of clinics in Hong Kong, in their sale to Fortis Healthcare, among other projects. Dr. Seah had served as the Chairman, and previously the Chief Executive Officer of China Medical & HealthCare Group (“CMHG”) from December 2015 until September 2018. CMHG is a publicly-listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a market capitalization at the time approximately USD 800 million. The company has 2,000 employees and owns and operates three hospitals in Nanjing, Kunming, and Shanghai, with 1,200 beds and a retirement village with 1,000 units in Shanghai. Dr. Seah was the founding CEO of ParkwayHealth’s China Division, now part of IHH Healthcare Berhad, between December 2003 and December 2008, where he built the organization through new facilities and acquisitions over a five year period while under the ownership of private equity firm TPG. Dr. Seah was also the CEO of First Steamship, a publicly-listed shipping company in Taipei, between August 2012 to February 2014, and the Business Development Director at Biotronik USA in Oregon between March 2003 to September 2003. Prior to this Dr. Seah was a corporate finance investment banker with Merrill Lynch, in Palo Alto, California between September 1999 to March 2003. Before attending business school, Dr. Seah was a medical doctor in Singapore, at the National University Hospital, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and at the Raffles Medical Group. Dr. Seah performed his military service as a Brigade Medical Officer in the Singapore Army, where his last rank was that of Captain. Dr. Seah has been a board member of several private and public companies, including Zenitas Healthcare between January 2016 to December 2018, Yuneec Electric Aviation between January 2015 to January 2017, Tongren Hospital between June 2010 to August 2013, Jiatai Group between June 2010 to June 2013, Grand Ocean Retail Group between July 2011 to July 2016 and Learning Ark Education between October 2009 to January 2019. Dr. Seah also served as a member of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra International Advisory Board between October 2016 and March 2018. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (“YPO”) Pacific Rim Chapter since October 2016. Dr. Seah holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Obstetrics from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Michele Ann Smith, 50
Director Nominee

Since April 2019, Ms. Smith has worked as an attorney at Hartmann, Doherty, Rosa, Berman & Bulbulia (“HDRBB”), a New Jersey law firm, doing pro-bono and appointed work representing indigent clients in federal and state courts. Ms. Smith was a director at CM Seven Star Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company from October 2017 until April 2019 where she served through the initial public offering of such company, search of target candidates and consummation of its business combination. Ms. Smith worked as an attorney at HDRBB, from September 2008 to January 2013. In October 2017, Ms. Smith returned to HDRBB after a period of family leave and served as a partner in the civil and criminal litigation groups until April 2019. From September 2006 to August 2008, she worked at Bonny Rafel LLC, an ERISA litigation boutique in New Jersey. From September 2002 to October 2003, Ms. Smith worked as an associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP in New York City. From August 2000 to June 2002, Ms. Smith was the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Fellow at the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School where a Sacks Fellow, she spent two years representing indigent adults and juveniles in criminal and delinquency proceedings in the Massachusetts courts, and also assisted the Criminal Justice Institute’s efforts to advocate for national and local reform of the criminal and juvenile justice systems. From October 1999 to June 2000, Ms. Smith worked as an associate at Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease LLP, a law firm located in Cincinnati, Ohio. From September 1998 to September 1999, Ms. Smith clerked for the Honorable Susan J. Dlott, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio. Ms. Smith is a member of the New Jersey and New York bars, is on inactive status with the Ohio bar and is retired from the Massachusetts bar. Ms. Smith received a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1993 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School with honors in 1998.