The board of directors of Sun Hung Kai & Co. Limited announced that Mr. Evan Au Yang Chi Chun ("Mr. Au Yang") has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director ("INED") and a member of each of the Nomination Committee, Remuneration Committee and Audit Committee of the Company with effect from 22 March 2018. Mr. Au Yang, aged 46, is currently the managing director and head of Asia-Pacific for Gerson Lehrman Group. Prior to GLG, Mr. Au Yang was the deputy managing director of The Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited and an executive director of Transport International Holdings Limited. He is the chairman of the board of Civic Exchange; a member of the Advisory Committee on Corruption of the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption and an advisor of the Hong Kong Foundation. He serves on the board of the Urban Renewal Authority as a non-executive director, the executive committees of Green Monday and the Young Presidents' Organization (Hong Kong Chapter) where he is a member.