The board of directors of Southeast Asia Properties & Finance Limited announced that Mr. Wong Shek Keung (Mr. Wong) has notified the Board that he will not offer himself for re-election at the forthcoming annual general meeting of the Company, which is expected to be held on 26 August 2022 and will retire as an independent non-executive Director by rotation pursuant to the amended and restated articles of association of the Company with effect from the conclusion of the 2022 AGM. Upon his retirement, Mr. Wong will cease to be a member of each of the Audit Committee of the Company, the Remuneration Committee of the Company with effect from the conclusion of the 2022 AGM. The Board announced that Mr. Luk Siu Chuen (Mr. Luk) has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director with effect from the conclusion of the 2022 AGM. Mr. Luk has also been appointed as the member of each of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee with effect from the conclusion of the 2022 AGM. Mr. Luk Siu Chuen, aged 44, has over 20 years of town planning experience. After graduating in 2002, he joined Lawson David & Sung Surveyors Limited as an assistant town planner and was subsequently promoted to a senior town planner, to handle a wide range of town planning, surveying, and real estate consultancy work, from August 2002 to July 2007. He then worked as an assistant manager which led and supervised the planning and lands section team at Dudley Surveyors Limited from August 2008 to February 2010, where he provided town planning as well as surveying and land administration services on various planning and lands projects. Since July 2010, Mr. Luk has been a managing director at Aikon Development Consultancy Limited, to continue providing town planning as well as surveying and land administration services. In addition, Mr. Luk serves to provide a full range of real estate consultancy services to property owners, including services on applications to the Hong Kong Government, project coordination and management with professional teams, strategic advice on development and redevelopment potentials and liaison with Government officers. Mr. Luk obtained a master's degree in town and country planning with honours from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom in June 2002. He has been a Member
of the Royal Town Planning Institute in the United Kingdom since October 2004 and a Registered Professional Planner of Planners Registration Board in Hong Kong since June 2005. Mr. Luk has also been a holder of an Estate Agent (Individual) Licence, issued by the Estate Agents Authority in Hong Kong, since December 2010. He has been an Ordinary Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Real Estate Administrators since November 2011
and become the member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Property Managers (formerly known as Greater China Institute of Property Management) in March 2017. In August 2021, Mr. Luk obtained the qualification as Registered Planner to practice in Qianhai Shenzhen- Hongkong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen. In accordance with the Articles of Association, Mr. Luk will hold office until the next annual general meeting of the Company and will be eligible for re-election at that meeting, and will be subject to retirement by rotation and re-election at least once every three years at the annual general meeting of the Company.