Board of Directors

Mr. Yong Suk Cho has been the chairman of our board and chief executive officer of our company since August 2022, and he served as co-chief executive officer of our company from January 2021 to August 2022 and a director of our company since March 2016. He has also been the chief executive officer of Puhui since March 2016. Mr. Cho has extensive experience in the consumer finance industry. Mr. Cho served as the vice president of portfolio management team of Citibank Korea and Thailand Inc. from July 1999 to March 2006, and senior vice president of marketing department of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, Seoul Branch from April 2006 to September 2007. Mr. Cho subsequently joined Ping An where he held a number of management positions, including section chief, assistant general manager, deputy general manager and general manager of the credit guarantee insurance business department from October 2007 to February 2015, during which he was in charge of planning, finance and risk management business lines. Mr. Cho obtained his MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business in May 1999.

Mr. Gregory Dean Gibb has been the co-chief executive officer of our company since January 2021 and a director of our company since December 2014, and he served as our chief executive officer from March 2016 to January 2021. He has also been the co-chairman and chief executive officer of Shanghai Lufax since September 2011. Mr. Gibb has over 20 years of experience serving multinational and domestic companies in the finance and investment industry. Mr. Gibb served as the marketing assistant in Merrill Lynch International from July 1989 to December 1991, various positions at McKinsey & Company from January 1992 to August 2006, including as its global senior director, and subsequently the chief operating officer of Taishin Financial Holding Co., Ltd, a company listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 2887), from September 2006 to May 2011. After that, Mr. Gibb joined Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China and served as the chief innovation officer from May 2011 to September 2013. Mr. Gibb obtained his bachelor of arts degree from Middlebury College in May 1989.

Mr. Guangheng Ji has been a director of our company since November 2022. Currently, he has been serving as senior vice president of Ping An Group since March 2022. Mr. Ji served as the chairman of the board of directors of our company from January 2021 to August 2022 and the co-chairman of the board of directors of our company from April 2020 to January 2021. Mr. Ji has over 25 years of experience in the finance industry. Mr. Ji served as a number of positions at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China from July 1994 to April 2009, vice president of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE: 600000), from April 2009 to November 2015, chairman of the board of Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. from November 2015 to March 2019, and vice chairman of the board and co-president of Baoneng Group from March 2019 to March 2020. Mr. Ji obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geography and Ph.D. degree in economics from Peking University in July 1991, July 1994 and July 2009, respectively.

Ms. Xin Fu has been a director of our company since November 2022. Currently, she has been serving as the chief operating officer of Ping An Group since March 2022 and director of the strategic development center of Ping An Group since March 2020. She joined Ping An Group in October 2017 as general manager of its planning department, and served as deputy chief financial officer of Ping An Group between March 2020 and March 2022. Prior to joining Ping An Group, Ms. Fu served as a partner of Roland Berger management consulting financial services practices and an executive director of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she had over ten years of experience in planning and implementing finance and fintech related projects. Ms. Fu has also been serving as a non-executive director of OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd. (NYSE: OCFT; HKG: 6638) since November 2022. Ms. Fu obtained a master’s degree in business administration from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 2012.

Mr. Yuqiang Huang has been a director of our company since December 2022. Currently, he has been serving as the vice president of risk management department of Ping An Group since May 2021. Mr. Huang has over 18 years of experience in risk management of the financial industry. Mr. Huang held various positions at Shenzhen Development Bank (now merged with and renamed as Ping An Bank Co., Ltd.) from July 2004 to May 2021, including as manager of capital and portfolio management office of the risk management department from April 2015 to December 2016, manager of credit risk management office of the risk management department from December 2016 to September 2018, and assistant general manager and subsequently general manager of the asset monitoring department from September 2018 to May 2021. Mr. Huang obtained a bachelor’s degree in management from Nanjing University in June 2004.

Mr. Rusheng Yang has been an independent director of our company since July 2020. Mr. Yang currently is a partner at Jonten Certified Public Accountants and has also been an independent director of Ping An Bank Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE: 000001), since February 2017, and an independent director of IPE Group Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKG: 929), since June 2017. Mr. Yang has over 20 years of experience in the finance, audit and tax industries. Mr. Yang served as finance specialist at Shenzhen Jiancai Group from 1993 to 1994, senior manager at Shenzhen Yongming CPA Co., Ltd. from 1994 to 2000, partner at Shenzhen Guangshen Certified Public Accountants Firm from 2001 to 2004, managing partner at Shenzhen Youxin Certified Public Accountants Firm from 2005 to 2007, partner at Wanlong Asia CPA Co., Ltd. from 2007 to 2009, partner at Crowe Horwath China Certified Public Accountants Co., Ltd. from 2009 to 2013, and partner at Rui Hua Certified Public Accountants from 2013 to 2020. Mr. Yang obtained his master’s degree in economics from Jinan University in 1993. Mr. Yang is a certified public accountant and a certified tax agent in the PRC.

Mr. Weidong Li has been an independent director of our company since April 2018. Mr. Li has also been an independent director of Ping An Securities Co., Ltd. since September 2016, an independent director of Shenzhen MYS Environmental Protection & Technology Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE: 002303), since September 2013, an independent director of Netac Technology Co., Ltd., a company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE: 300042), from February 2014 to February 2017, and a partner and a director at Guangdong Haipai Law Firm since November 2003 and November 2012, respectively. Mr. Li has extensive experience in corporate legal affairs. Mr. Li was a lawyer at Nanjing Zhongshan Law Firm from September 1992 to January 1994 and Jiangsu Jingwei Law Firm from February 1994 to April 1997. Mr. Li obtained his bachelor’s degrees in science and law from Nanjing University in July 1990 and July 1992, respectively, and was a research scholar in international financial law in the City University of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2003. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong in November 2004. Mr. Li has been a registered foreign lawyer with the Law Society of Hong Kong since May 2014.

Mr. Xudong Zhang has been an independent director of our company since April 2018. Mr. Zhang has also been an independent director of Ping An Securities Co., Ltd. since January 2017 and an independent director of Chifeng Gold (SSE: 600988) since February 2020. Mr. Zhang is currently the chief executive officer of Huakong Tsingjiao Information Science (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Mr. Zhang has extensive experiences in the financial services industry. Mr. Zhang served as a private placement service analyst in New England Mutual Life Insurance Company from October 1990 to June 1994, a vice president of corporate finance division in First BankBoston, N.A. from July 1994 to September 1996, a managing director of corporate finance department of Koch Industries, Inc. from September 1996 to July 1998, the chairman and chief executive officer of AnJia Group from July 1999 to December 2006. Mr. Zhang subsequently served as the managing director of institutional client services and head of Hong Kong and China equities divisions of Deutsche Bank from March 2007 to August 2009, and the global partner and head of Greater China securities of Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. from September 2009 to December 2012. He was the chairman of Sapinda Asia Pacific Holdings Limited from July 2014 to December 2016 and the senior partner of GSR Capital and partner of China Canada Global Resources Fund from January 2017 to August 2018. Mr. Zhang also served as an advisor to the CSRC on asset securitization from April 2003 to March 2007, and an advisor to China Development Bank from September 2004 to August 2006. Mr. Zhang obtained his master’s degree in economic development from Southern New Hampshire University (formerly known as New Hampshire College) in September 1990.

Mr. David Xianglin Li has been an independent director of our company since January 2021. Mr. Li is currently a professor and faculty co-director of master of finance program at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, and an associate director of Chinese Academy of Financial Research at Shanghai Jiaotong University and director of the Academy’s Risk Management Center and FinTech Research Center. Mr. Li has extensive experience in the finance industry and is a recognized leader in credit derivatives research and risk management. Prior to his current position, Mr. Li served as the head of enterprise risk methodology and analytics at Prudential Financial from April 2016 to August 2017, the head of modeling at AIG Investments from February 2012 to March 2016, the chief risk officer at China International Capital Corporation Ltd. from May 2008 to January 2012, the head of credit derivative research and analytics at Barclays Capital from June 2004 to April 2008 and the head of credit derivative research and analytics at Citigroup from October 2001 to May 2004. Mr. Li has also served in senior positions at AXA Financial, the RiskMetrics Group/J.P. Morgan, and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, among others. Mr. Li obtained his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Yangzhou University in 1983, master’s degree in economics from Nankai University in 1987, MBA degree from Laval University in 1991, and master’s degree in actuarial science and Ph.D. degree in statistics from the University of Waterloo in 1993 and 1995.