Mr. CHENG Chak Ho, holds a doctoral degree of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Brighton, a Master degree in Urban Design from the University of Hong Kong, a Master of Science in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) and a Master of Business Administration in Finance. He has over 29 years of experiences in all kinds of valuation including real estate valuation, business valuation, plant and machinery valuation, forensic valuation and much more. He has been deeply involved in over 100 IPOs and M&A cases over the last ten years. He is an independent non-executive director of North Mining Shares Company Limited (stock code: 0433), a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited since 12 April 2001. He is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Certified Management Accountants Australia, Association of International Accountants, Institute of Public Accountants, Institute of Financial Accountants, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal Statistical Society, Federation of Hong Kong Industries, The Hong Kong Institute of Directors, The Hong Kong Institute of Environmentalists, The Society of Operations Engineers, and Institution of Plant Engineers. He is also Member of The Hong Kong Institution of Surveyors, The Certified Public Accountants Association, The Society of Chartered Environmentalists, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers, the China Real Estate Appraisers and Agents, American Society of Civil Engineers, The Institute of Engineering and Technology, The American Society For Microbiology, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Mr. Cheng joined the Group on 1 April 2021.