GDS Holdings Limited announced that, effective December 4, 2023, Mr. Lee Choong Kwong, director of the board of directors, resigned from the Board for personal reasons. The Company also announced the appointment of Mr. Liu Chee Ming to the Board as a director effective December 4, 2023. Mr. Liu has been appointed as a director by STT GDC Pte Ltd. pursuant to the exercise of its appointment right under the GDS Articles of Association.

Mr. Liu has over 40 years of experience across the financial services sector across Asia Pacific. Mr. Liu is currently the Managing Director of Platinum Holdings Company Limited, which he established in March 1996. Mr. Liu is an Independent Non-Executive Director of ST Telemedia since September 2020.

He has also been an Independent Director of OUE Hospitality Trust Management Pte. Ltd. since June 2013. In June 2018, he was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, where he also chairs the remuneration committee.

He was also appointed as a Director of SingEx-Sphere Holdings Pte Ltd. (now known as Constellar Holdings Pte. Ltd.) in April 2021 and was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Limited in May 2021. Mr. Liu was a member of the Takeovers Appeal Committee and the Deputy Chairman of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel of the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong from April 2008 to March 2010, April 2014 to March 2016 and April 2018 to March 2020.

Between July 2019 and July 2023, he was a member of the Listing Review Committee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Mr. Liu has been a Governor of the Singapore International School (Hong Kong) since May 2006 and was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Singapore International School (Hong Kong) in January 2020. Mr. Liu was an Independent Supervisor of the Supervisory Committee of Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties Co.

Ltd. from May 2015 to March 2019. Mr. Liu holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the former University of Singapore.