Po-Wen Huang, Beijing, China

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Po-Wen Huang is a U.S. citizen and a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, with master's and doctorate degrees also from Yale. Having lived in the United States, Hong Kong, and China each for many years, he is familiar with both sides of the Pacific Ocean and understands both China and the West well.

Dr. Huang has served as a Loan Officer in the East Asia and Pacific Department of the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) in Washington, D.C. He was an associate at The First Boston Corporation and later Merrill Lynch in New York, and subsequently chief representative of Merrill Lynch investment banking in Asia and Executive Director of Trident International Finance, a joint venture merchant bank, involving Barclays Bank, Nomura Securities, and Merrill Lynch, based in Hong Kong. He has had extensive experience as well in consulting, executive search, and industrial operations and has been involved in the operations of a number of multinational companies in the Asia-Pacific region and China, and is a director of several corporations.

Throughout his career Dr. Huang has served as investment banker or financial adviser to numerous corporations and governmental bodies, and successfully implemented many financial and investment transactions in the world's public and private capital markets. In the People's Republic of China, he has organized joint venture projects for several major American and European conglomerates, and worked closely with many prominent Chinese governmental entities and companies.

Dr. Huang is the author of the book Diplomacy and Development in Asia: The Formation of the Asian Development Bank. He is listed in Who's Who of Finance and Industry, Who's Who of the Asia Pacific Rim, and Who's Who of the World.

A keen sportsman, Dr. Huang is active in tournament tennis competition and coaching, mountain trekking and other outdoor pursuits. He has been the founder and President of the Yale Clubs of Beijing and Hong Kong, and is a devotee of music, films, and the arts. Married, with two sons, Dr. Huang resides in Beijing.


Roger F. Azar, Paris, France

Formerly an investment banker with The First Boston Corporation in New York and Directeur G¡§?n¡§?ral of an international bank headquartered in Paris, Mr. Azar is Pr¡§?sident Directeur G¡§?n¡§?ral of Azar S.A., an investment firm headquartered in Paris with holdings in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.Mr. Azar received his M.B.A. degree from the Institut Europ¡§?en d?Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France.


Wolf - Peter Berthold, Germany / Hong Kong

A native of Germany, Mr. Berthold was formerly Head of Dresdner Bank's Investment and Private Banking Department in Hong Kong. Subsequently he established and headed Deutsche Bank's private banking and portfolio management activities in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines, and was Vice President of Deutsche Bank's Asia/Pacific Regional Head Office under Executive Chairman Simon Murray, responsible for major customer relationships, asset management, equity investments and venture capital sourcing.

Mr. Berthold is now Chairman of his own investment and private banking firm, Deutsche Investment Corporation (Asia) [Deutsche Asiatische Beteiligungsgesellschaft] Ltd. He has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of a major German industrial and engineering group, and director of several companies in the banking and consulting industries. He is a business administration and economics graduate of Mannheim University, Germany.


Cyrus W. Brown, New York

Mr. Brown is the founder and President of Winthrop, Brown and Company, a private portfolio management firm headquartered in New York.

A former U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command officer, Mr. Brown has been a senior executive of the Hanover Bank, a partner of F.S. Smithers and Company, and Director of Corporate Finance at Abraham and Company in New York.

Mr. Brown is a graduate of Harvard University, with a degree in engineering and applied physics.


Miles G. Carlisle, Washington D. C.

A specialist in international finance, trade, and investment with over 30 years' experience, primarily with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector affiliate of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., Mr. Carlisle played a major role in the start-up and development of IFC's highly successful co-financing program and has raised substantial financial resources for Asian, Latin American, and African projects. He has advised corporate investors on financial structuring, appraised project proposals, arranged private placements of equities from IFC's portfolio, and participated in the early development of IFC's capital market activities.

Mr. Carlisle decided on early retirement from IFC to establish his own consulting firm, Carlisle International. He has a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


Chen Jun, Beijing, China

Chen Jun is the Chief China Representative of Zurich Insurance Company, based in Beijing. Previously he was the China representative of AEGON Insurance Company, responsible for obtaining a license at record speed and setting up its joint venture in Shanghai.

Mr. Chen was previously chief China representative of Clemente Capital Asia, a direct investment fund based in New York. He successfully directed a number of investments, three of which were subsequently listed on the New York, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong stock exchanges.

Mr. Chen has worked in the direct investment and consulting arms of CITIC, one of China's largest financial institutions, and has also worked in Germany with the international accounting firm KPMG.

A native of Beijing, Mr. Chen is very well connected in many circles throughout China. He has served as equity investment consultant and project manager for Procter & Gamble, Alfa Laval (Sweden), Movenpick (Switzerland), and Hilti relating to their investments in China, which ranged from US$ 10-30 million, and advised Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, KPMG and Price Waterhouse Coopers in their China entry strategies.

A Chinese CPA, Mr. Chen graduated from Sichuan University and has attended numerous training courses in China and the West.


Victor Zhikai Gao, Esq., Beijing, China

Victor Zhikai Gao is Managing Director of the Suzhou Zhongxin High Tech Fund and Director of the China National Association for International Studies.

Mr. Gao was formerly Senior Vice President, Company Secretary, and Chief Legal Advisor of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), one of China's major petroleum companies, responsible for overseas mergers and acquisitions and other company affairs, and Chief Executive Officer of China State-Owned Enterprise Investment Corporation, one of China's major investment companies, and Director of Chongqing Changan Automobile Corporation (which has a joint venture with Ford Motors). He is Director of the American-European Returned Students Chamber of Commerce, President of the Yale Law School Association of China, and Vice President of the Yale Club of Beijing. In January 2004, Mr. Gao was appointed by the Mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan, as Investment Banking Advisor.

Mr. Gao holds a J.D. degree from Yale Law School (1993), an M.A. degree in Political Science from Yale Graduate School (1990), an M.A. degree in English Literature from Beijing University of Foreign Studies, a B.A. degree in English Literature from Suzhou University, and is a licensed attorney-at-law in the State of New York.

In the 1990s, Mr. Gao practiced securities law with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York and then joined Morgan Stanley as an investment banker in its M&A practice, working both in its Hong Kong office and its joint-venture investment bank in China, China International Capital Corporation (CICC). While on secondment from Morgan Stanley, Mr. Gao served as General Manager of the Investment Banking Department, Head of its M&A practice and Head of Hong Kong IBD.

In 1999-2000, Mr. Gao was drafted into the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong as its China Policy Advisor and played a key role in the policy initiation, coordination and execution in the securities area between Hong Kong and Mainland China. From 2001-2003 Mr. Gao was Executive Director (China) of PCCW, a major IT and telecom company headquartered in Hong Kong, and Director of PCCW Ventures and PCCW M&A.

In the 1980s, Mr. Gao worked in the Chinese Foreign Service in Beijing and the United Nations Secretariat in New York City, and was Chief Government English Interpreter for the "Second Generation" of Chinese leaders and many heads of state and government and other leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Mr. Gao's other appointments have included Research Fellow at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management (1998-2000), Senior Advisor for Bank of China International (2000-2001), Senior Advisor for ICEA, the investment banking arm of ICBC, the largest commercial bank in China (2002-2003), and Senior Vice President of a major corporate group affiliated with Peking University.


Michael Xin Guo, Beijing, China

Mr. Guo is the President of International Data Corporation (IDC)'s China operations. IDC is a subsidiary of IDG, a leading American technology media, research, and event management company.

Mr. Guo has many years of experience in international business and government service in China, the U.S., and the Americas. He was formerly Managing Partner and Board Director of Gallup China, an affiliate of the Gallup Group U.S.A., based in Beijing, and developed Gallup into one of the most successful consultancy firms in China. Previously he was also a senior executive of the CITIC Group.

Mr. Guo is a graduate of the Beijing Foreign Studies University, and has participated in the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He is a member of numerous organizations, including the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, the American Management Association, the China Marketing Research Association, and others.


Michael Pettis, Beijing, China

Michael Pettis is a professor at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management and Adjunct professor at Columbia University Business School and School of International Public Affairs (SIPA).

Mr.Pettis has spent fifteen years as a banker and trader on Wall Street, nine years as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Business School, and two years as a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management (Beijing). Before moving to China in 2001 he was Managing Director and Head of the Capital Markets Strategy Group at Bear Stearns, a New York-based investment bank. Since 1987 Pettis has headed fixed income trading and capital markets desks for Manufacturers Hanover (now JP Morgan), Credit Suisse First Boston and Bear Stearns. He has advised the Mexican government on the privatization of the banking system in 1990, the Republic of Macedonia on the restructuring of its international bank debt in 1996, and the Korean Ministry of Finance on the restructuring of the country's commercial bank debt in 1998. Pettis has also advised and arranged bond offerings for a number of borrowers, including those of the governments of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela.

He received an MBA in Finance and an M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in Development Economics from Columbia University.


Mitchell A. Presnick, Beijing, China

Mr. Presnick has many years of strategic management, businessdevelopment, communications, and government affairs experience in the PRC.

Currently Chief Executive Officer of Super 8 Hotels China, Mr. Presnick was previously China Managing Director for Edelman Public Relations, a top-three worldwide agency, and founder and Managing Director of the China practice of APCO Associates, a Washington D.C.- based public affairs firm.

Mitch interned in Beijing for both ABC News and CBS News, covering the 1989 state visit of U.S. President George Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and spend several years in Hong Kong as an analyst with American Airlines. He has been advisor to the senior management of Anheuser-Busch on its China public affairs efforts, as well as to P&G, M&M, Mars, Ericsson, Intel, Wrigley, GlaxoSmithKine, Fujifilm, and many other companies. He has also advised several Chinese companies on corporate image and branding.

Mitch earned an MBA from Rutgers University Graduate School of Management and completed a two-year post-graduate Chinese language program at Peking University. He graduated from James Madison University with a BBA in management.

Mr. Presnick has been Vice Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce - China and served on the Amcham Board of Governors for five years. He is a member of the Peking University President's Advisory Board.


Dr. Kie-Wei Tung, Hong Kong / Boston

Formerly a senior executive of Citibank, Dr. Tung is Managing Director of an international insurance company headquartered in Hong Kong, and director of several corporations.

He was educated at Imperial College, London, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his Doctorate from Yale University.


Patrick Po-kong Wu, J.P., Hong Kong

Mr. Wu has been Vice Chairman, Executive Director, and Alternate Chief Executive of the Wing Lung Bank, Hong Kong. Educated in Australia, Mr. Wu is currently Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers and Vice Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce - Hong Kong China Business Council.

Mr. Wu is a Director of numerous corporations and holds many honorary, civic, and educational positions in Asia and the West.


Dr. Philip Po-him Wu, J.P. , Hong Kong

Dr. Wu is Executive Director of the Wing Lung Bank, Hong Kong, and is a Director of JETCO, a major Asian electronic banking network. He is a member of the Hong Kong Airport's Consultative Committee and the Hong Kong Productivity Council, and is active in educational and community services.

He received a B.A. degree from the University of Hong Kong, an M.B.A. degree from California State University, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Oklahoma.

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Our special thanks to Huang Wenjun and Thomas L. Chrystie, who have generously helped us so much from the start.

A native of Shanghai, Huang Wenjun for many years represented The People's Republic of China in many international and bilateral negotiations on economic and trade matters, serving as Official Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (MOFERT) and Director General of the Ministry's Policy Research Department. Mr. Huang was a senior diplomat in the Chinese embassies in Sweden and Great Britain as well as the United Nations before being appointed Minister-Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D. C.. Mr. Huang continues to provide insightful and clear guidance and advice to many Chinese and foreign organizations. Thank you, Mr. Huang, for your wisdom and very clear vision.

Thomas L. Chrystie, a key driving force and one of the strategic "gurus" behind our company, had a very distinguished investment banking career (Chairman of Merrill Lynch White Weld Capital Markets Group and Merrill Lynch Capital Resources; Adviser on Strategy; Head of the Investment Banking Division; and Chief Financial Officer). He has always been a superb and inspirational leader: perceptive, logical, and positive, unfailing with his great wisdom and counsel. Tom has now taken advantage of his seniority to retire from some of his business endeavors to enjoy to the fullest, with lovely wife Liza, his wonderful lifestyle in Jackson Hole, Wyoming -- probably the most beautiful place on Earth. Kudos, Tom; and thanks for everything.