Co-Chairs of The 2nd Annual Meeting 2014

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Mr. Stanley M. Bergman
Chairman & CEO, Henry Schein, Inc.
USA
Since 1989, Stanley M. Bergman has been Chairman and CEO of Henry Schein, Inc., a Fortune 500® company and the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, medical and animal health practitioners, with nearly 16,000 employees and operations or affiliations in 24 countries. The Company’s 2012 sales reached a record $8.9 billion. Henry Schein has been a Fortune “World’s Most Admired Company” for 12 consecutive years and is ranked #1 in its industry for social responsibility. Mr. Bergman serves as a board member or advisor for numerous institutions including New York University College of Dentistry; the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine; the Columbia University Medical Center; Hebrew University; Tel Aviv University; the University of Witwatersrand Fund; World Economic Forum’s Health Care Governors; the Forsyth Institute; the Business Council for International Understanding; and the Metropolitan Opera. Mr. Bergman is an honorary member of the American Dental Association and the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity. His awards include being the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor; the CR Magazine Corporate Responsibility Lifetime Achievement Award; a Doctor of Humane Letters from A.T. Still University’s Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health; and Honorary Fellowship of King’s College London. Stanley and Marion Bergman and their family are active supporters of organizations fostering the arts, higher education, cultural diversity and grassroots health care and sustainable entrepreneurial economic development initiatives in the United States, Africa and other developing regions of the world. Mr. Bergman is President of the American Jewish Committee. Mr. Bergman is a graduate of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, and is a South African Charted Accountant and a NYS Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
Mr. Ronnie Chan
President, Hang Lung Properties Ltd.
Hong Kong S.A.R.
Ronnie C. Chan is Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited. Following successes in Shanghai, Hang Lung has been investing US$11billion and building a number of world-class commercial complexes in Tianjin, Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Dalian, Kunming and Wuhan. Mr. Chan also co-founded the Morningside group and helped found the Calgary, Canada based Morningside Music Bridge for young classical musicians. Besides, he founded and chairs China Heritage Fund, is a co-founding director of The Forbidden City Cultural Heritage Conservation Foundation, Beijing, and is an Advisor and former Vice President of China Development Research Foundation in Beijing. Internationally, he is Co-Chair of the Board of Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, a Director of the Board of Peterson Institute for International Economics, a member of Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on United States-China Relations, and Committee of 100. He is also Founding Chairman Emeritus of Asia Business Council. He serves or has served on the governing or advisory bodies of several think tanks and universities, including World Economic Forum, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, University of Southern California, East-West Center, Pacific Council on International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, and The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.

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Mrs. Wendy Luhabe
Founder & Chairman
Women Private Equity Fund
South Africa
Wendy Luhabe has extensive board experience in Corporate Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Governance and Human Capital Development in both the private and public sectors. She is most known for her pioneering social enterprises, one in developing effective Human Resources Strategies for companies to improve productivity and performance and two for the economic participation of women, through a Portfolio Investment Company and a Venture Capital Equity Fund for women. She is an Author, an accomplished public speaker, thought Leader and is deeply passionate about Leadership, Mentorship and Women’s development. She is currently an advisor to The Big Break Legacy, an initiative to make South Africa an Entrepreneurial nation. She is also on the Supervisory board of the IMD business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is a recipient of 3 honorary doctorates and a member of the International Council of Business Women Leaders initiated by Ms Hilary Clinton, on the Economic Empowerment of Women. She is married, has a Son and two grandchildren and is an aspiring harpist. She travels extensively on speaking engagements and her International board commitments.
Mr. S. Ramadorai
Vice-Chairman, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) & Advisor to Prime Minister
India
Mr. S. Ramadorai is Vice Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, a company he has been associated with for the past 39 years. He took over as CEO in 1996 when the company’s revenue was $160 million and has since then led the company through some of its most exciting phases, including its going public in 2004. In October 2009, he stepped down as CEO, leaving a $6 billion global IT services company to his successor, while he took over the mantle of Vice Chairmanship of the company. Today, the company’s revenue stands at $10.17 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012, with an employee base of over 238,583 IT consultants in 42 countries. Mr. Ramadorai is also the Chairman of Tata Elxsi Ltd, Tata Technologies Ltd, CMC Ltd and CRL Ltd and sits on the boards of a number of non-Tata companies and educational institutions – Tata Industries, Hindustan Unilever Limited, Bombay Stock Exchange and the MIT Sloan School of Management (EMSAB). In February 2011, S. Ramadorai stepped into public service when the Indian Government appointed him as the Advisor to the Prime Minister in the National Skill Development Council, in the rank of Cabinet Minister. The Council, which is headed by the Prime Minister, seeks to develop a strategy for skill development at the national level with a view to address the skill deficit.

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Mr. Gao Xiqing
Former Vice-Chairman & President, China Investment Corporation (CIC)
People’s Republic of China
Mr. Gao Xiqing is the Former Vice Chairman and President of CIC. Immediately prior to this, he served as Deputy Chairman of the National Council for the Social Security Fund. He also worked as Deputy Chairman at the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and General Counsel and the Director General of the Public Offering Supervision Department. In the 1990s, he served as Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of China International (Holdings) Ltd. Mr. Gao was born in 1953. He received a juris doctor degree from the School of Law at Duke University in the United States and a masters degree in law/economics from the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing.