The board (the "Board") of directors (the "Directors") of Winto Group (Holdings) Limited announced that Mr. Lin Zexin ("Mr. Lin") will be appointed as an independent non-executive Director, chairman of the remuneration committee (the "Remuneration Committee"), a member of the audit committee (the "Audit Committee"), a member of the nomination committee (the "Nomination Committee") and a member of the corporate governance & risk management committee (the "CG & RM Committee") of the Company with effect from 12 April 2023. The biographical details of Mr. Lin are as follows: Mr. Lin, aged 36, has been studying for a Ph.D. in Applied Finance at the University of Malaya since 2020. He is currently a doctoral candidate.

From 2013 to 2015, he obtained an MBA degree in Finance from the City University of Hong Kong and, as an exchange student, studied Innovative Entrepreneurship Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Lin was one of the first to obtain the level two certificate of the Shenzhen-Hongkong-Macau FinTech Professional Program. He also holds FRM and AFP certificates, as well as the Certification of Fund Professional.

He took the special training courses (Innovation and Technology in Finance Course and the Financial Technology Course) provided by the 2022 Shenzhen Financial Key Talent Training Program series, with his group papers winning the first prize and the third prize respectively. He also participated in the Hong Kong "Thousand Young Key Talent Training Program" organized by the Liaison Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the All-China Youth Federation and the Central Party School.