DTXS Silk Road Investment Holdings Company Limited announces the following appointment of Independent Non-executive Directors with effect from 1 December 2023. Prof. Wang, aged 71, has been appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director and will serve as the chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Company with effect from 1 December 2023. Prof. Wang is President of Zhejiang University Academy of International Strategy and Law, and University Professor of Law, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China; Eason-Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law Emeritus, School of Law, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA; President of International Academy of the Belt and Road; Member of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Supreme People's Court of China; Chair and Member of the International Commercial Expert Committee of the Intermediate People's Court of Suzhou, China; Member of the Academic Committee of the International Commercial Tribunal of the Intermediate People's Court of Wuxi, China.

Prof. Wang worked at City University of Hong Kong for more than 25 years serving as Dean of School of Law, Chair Professor of Chinese and Comparative Law, and Director of the Centre for Judicial Education and Research at different time until 2015 when he left the University, and also worked at School of Law, Tulane University in the United States serving as Eason-Weinmann Chair of International and Comparative Law till 2020. Professor Wang is also Chairman of the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute, Chairman of the National Committee (HK) and Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Vice President of the Chinese Society of International Economic Law. Prof. Wang, holder of the JSD degree from Yale Law School and LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School, is the first one from the Mainland of China to obtain the JSD degree from Yale Law School since 1949.

He is also the first Chinese recipient of the fellowship of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in 1980, which enabled him to participate in the seminars offered by the International Court of Justice and to study at The Hague Academy of International Law, the United Nations Legal Affairs Office and the World Bank. Ms. Hau, aged 43, has been appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director and will serve as a member of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company with effect from 1 December 2023. Ms. Hau, aged 43, has obtained a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from The University of Hong Kong and a degree in bachelor of arts with specialization in accounting from York University.

Ms. Hau also obtained the FT Non-Executive Director Diploma Asia from Financial Times Board Director Programme. Ms. Hau has over 20 years of experience in financial reporting and operation management. Ms. Hau is currently a director of Animoca Capital, a private equity fund with investment focus in the blockchain space, and is responsible for operation management, regulatory compliance and financial reporting.

She served as a director at Madison Pacific Trust Limited, a Tricor Group company, where she acted as the director of finance, head of operations and chief compliance officer for eight years.