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44ADVANCING AHEADBoard of DirectorsMr Jinchu SHEN, 52Executive Director, Group Co-founder and Co-Chief Executive OfficerDate of first appointment as Director: 30 June 2011Mr Stuart GIBSON,61Executive Director, Group Co-founder and Co-Chief Executive OfficerDate of first appointment as Director: 20 January 2016Mr Jinchu Shen, also known as Jeffrey, is a cofounder of e-Shang Cayman Limited (%u201ce-Shang%u201d) and has been the Co-CEO of ESR Group since June 2011. He was appointed as a director of e-Shang on 30 June 2011 and following the 2016 Merger, was appointed as a Director and is responsible for overseeing ESR Group%u2019s overall operations and business development, leading regional growth strategies, and expanding the Group%u2019s asset and fund management platforms. Mr Shen was re-designated as an Executive Director on 22 February 2019.Mr Shen is also a director of various subsidiaries of ESR Group. Mr Shen was appointed as a nonexecutive director of ESR-REIT Management (S) Limited (formerly known as ESR-LOGOS Funds Management (S) Limited) (the manager of ESR REIT which is listed in Singapore), and ESR Trust Management (Suntec) Limited (formerly known as ARA Trust Management (Suntec) Limited) (the manager of Suntec Real Estate Investment Trust which is listed in Singapore) since November 2023 respectively.Mr Shen has over 25 years of industrial real estate experience in China. Prior to co-founding the Group in June 2011, Mr Shen held a variety of roles, including Senior Vice President, at GLP Investment Management (China) Co., Ltd. (%u5168%u7403%u7269%u6d41%u8cc7%u7522%u516c%u53f8(%u4e2d%u570b)) (formerly known as Prologis China) from January 2004 to September 2010, overseeing the Eastern China area. Mr Shen was the deputy director in DTZ Debenham Tie Leung International Property Advisers from June 2001 to December 2003 and prior to this, he was the assistant general manager of marketing at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone Xin Development Co., Ltd from July 1995 to November 2000.Mr Shen graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in China in July 1995, where he obtained a bachelor%u2019s degree in technical economics. In July 2001, he obtained a master%u2019s degree in business administration from Donghua University in China.Mr Stuart Gibson is a Co-founder of ESR Group, and was the co-founder and CEO of the Redwood group from July 2006 until the 2016 Merger, and he has been the Co-CEO of the Group since January 2016. He was appointed as a Director on 20 January 2016 and is responsible for overseeing ESR%u2019s overall operations and business development. Mr Gibson was re-designated as an Executive Director on 22 February 2019.Mr Gibson is also a director of various subsidiaries of the Group. He was appointed as a non-executive director of ESR-REIT Management (S) Limited (formerly known as ESR-LOGOS Funds Management (S) Limited) (the manager of ESR REIT which is listed in Singapore) since August 2023. Mr Gibson has been an independent director of SYLA Technologies Co., Ltd. (listed on Nasdaq) since July 2023.Mr Gibson has over 29 years of real estate development and investment experience in Asia, which includes 15 years spent in the Japanese industrial real estate sector. Mr Gibson joined Prologis B.V. (formerly known as LogiStar B.V.) in 1998 as the development associate, and was subsequently seconded from Prologis B.V. to Prologis Japan as a vice president from 2000 and was later promoted to the country head of Prologis Japan. He is the former co-founder and co-CEO of AMB BlackPine from 2003 to 2006, which was subsequently incorporated into Prologis. He was also the chairman of AMB Property Corporation Japan Advisory Committee from July 2006 to December2007.