The board of directors of China Maple Leaf Educational Systems Limited announced that the Board has resolved to appoint (i) Ms. Wong Wai Fong ("Ms. Wong") as an independent non-executive Director and a member of the independent board committee of the Board ("IBC") established for, among other matters, conducting the Independent Investigation (as defined in the announcement of the Company dated 23 May 2022); and (ii) Dr. Kem Hussain ("Dr. Hussain") as a non- executive Director, all with effect from 1 January 2023. Ms. Wong Wai Fong, aged 62, will be appointed as an independent non-executive Director and a member of the IBC, all with effect from 1 January 2023. Ms. Wong obtained a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong in 1982. She obtained a Master of Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master of Laws in Corporate and Financial Law from the University of Hong Kong in 1989 and 2020 respectively. Ms. Wong obtained the Diploma in Management Consulting and Change from The University of Hong Kong and The Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management in 1999. She completed the Harvard Negotiation Master Class from Harvard Law School with a Certificate in 2021. Ms. Wong has 40 years of global financial experience covering central banks, multinational corporations, listed companies and family offices. Ms. Wong joined The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited ("HSBC") as a Foreign Exchange Dealer Trainee in September 1982, becoming the first woman foreign exchange bank dealer in Hong Kong and
was subsequently seconded to HSBC London in 1983. After the secondment, her last position with the HSBC group was Senior Dealer ­ Treasury Products (Foreign Exchange & Treasury Department) in April 1990. Since then, she has worked and held different senior management positions with various global banks, which included the Hongkong Bank of Canada (now known as HSBC Bank Canada) ("HSBC Canada"), the National Westminster Bank PLC's Hong Kong office, the Hong Kong office of Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (WestLB AG) Bank, a German state-backed merchant bank, and Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited. In 2007, Ms. Wong joined Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. in Hong Kong as an executive director of the Institutional Wealth Management of the Investment Management Division. She subsequently acted as an executive director at the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. in Hong Kong from 2011 to 2016. Ms. Wong has been a co-founder and managing partner of Alpha Grand Consulting Group Ltd. and Alpha Grand Real Estate Ltd, global financial consultancy firms headquartered in Hong Kong with representatives in Italy and Canada covering the European and North American markets since January 2017. She is responsible for managing proprietary real estate investment portfolios in the UK and Canada. Dr. Kem Hussain, aged 53, will be appointed as a non-executive Director with effect from 1 January 2023. Dr. Hussain obtained a Bachelor's Degree from the Faculty of Arabic Language of the Islamic University of Medina in 1993 and a Master of Arts from The University of Manchester in 1995. Dr. Hussain also obtained a Doctor of Education from the Nova Southeastern University in 2004, after which he completed his postdoctoral studies at the Independent Schools Institute of the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2008. Dr. Hussain has around 20 years of experience in education and management of educational institutions. From 2002 to 2003, Dr. Hussain worked at the Florida International University as an adjunct professor and a lecturer. From 2005 to 2019, Dr. Hussain worked at the Universal Academy of Florida, with the last position as the president and superintendent. From 2008 to 2022, Dr. Hussain worked at the Nova Southeastern University as an adjunct professor. Dr. Hussain was also the superintendent at Garden of the Sahaba Academy from 2009 to 2020 and at Salah Tawfik Elementary & Middle School from 2008 to 2020. Dr. Hussain has been the director and vice president of Cognia Inc. (formerly AdvancED) since 2008. Dr. Hussain is also currently the president and chief executive officer of Rise University Systems, a registered postsecondary institution in San Jose, California.