The board of directors of Lenovo Group Limited announced that Mr. John Lawson Thornton ("Mr. Thornton") has been appointed as an independent non-executive director and a member of the Nomination and Governance Committee of the Company with effect from August 18, 2023. Mr. Thornton, 69, has been the executive chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation since April 2014 and the non-executive chairman of PineBridge Investments, a global asset manager, since December 2014. He has also been a director of Ford Motor Company since March 1996, and currently its lead director, a director of AltC Acquisition Corp.

since July 2021, a director of Divergent Technologies Inc., a digital production system company, since April 2022, and currently its lead director, and a director of SparkCognition Inc., since December 2018, and currently its lead director. Mr. Thornton is a professor and director of the Global Leadership Program, and an advisory board member of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University as well as an advisory board member of Tsinghua University's School of Public Policy and Management. Mr. Thornton is Chairman Emeritus of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., co-chairman of the Asia Society, and a trustee, advisory board member and member of, China Investment Corporation, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, McKinsey Advisory Council, Schwarzman Scholars, and the African Leadership Academy.

Mr. Thornton joined Goldman Sachs in 1980 and retired as president and director of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in 2003. He also previously served as chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia and as Co-Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs International, overseeing the firm's business in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Mr. Thornton has extensive experience in merger and acquisition execution, capital allocation and financial management, international business and global partnerships, talent development and allocation and partnership culture, risk management and government and regulatory affairs and community relations.

Mr. Thornton holds a Bachelor of Arts in history from Harvard College, a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in jurisprudence from Oxford University and a Master's degree in public and private management from the Yale School of Management. Mr. Thornton has entered into a letter of appointment with the Company as an independent non-executive director of the Company for a term of three years and is subject to retirement by rotation and re-election at the annual general meeting of the Company in accordance with the articles of association of the Company.