HKBN Ltd. announces that the ESG Committee was established by the Company on 1 September 2022. The Board also announces that Ms. Ngan has been appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director of the Company, the chairman of the ESG Committee, and a member of the Audit Committee, the Nomination Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company with effect from 1 September 2022. Ms. Edith Manling Ngan, aged 57, is an independent non-executive director and a member of the audit committee of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, an independent non-executive director, chairman of the audit committee and a member of the remuneration committee of Blue Moon Group Holdings Limited, an independent non-executive director, chairman of the audit committee and a member of the remuneration committee, nomination committee, risk committee and compliance committee of Asia Financial Holdings Limited and an independent non-executive director of Swire Pacific Limited.

She was an independent non-executive director and a member of the audit committee and risk committee of Blue Insurance Limited from 2018 to May 2022. Prior to her retirement in 2017 as regional managing director, East Asia of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, she was chief executive from 2012 to 2016 of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute. Between 1996 and 2010, Ms. Ngan had worked for ABN AMRO Fund Services (Asia) Ltd, Principal International (Asia) Ltd. and Invesco Asia Limited in regional management roles before she moved to non-profits and served as an executive director of the Asia Society Hong Kong Center between 2010 and 2012.

Ms. Ngan is a member of the Hong Kong SAR Government Standing Committee on Disciplined Services Salaries and Conditions of Service, and also a member of the Investment Sub-Committee of Beat Drugs Fund Association and Investment Committee of Quality Education Fund. She was a member of the Hong Kong SAR Government Standing Commission on Civil Service Salaries and Conditions of Service from 2018 to 2021. She is a Court Member of Lingnan University since 2019 and was a Council Member from 2012 to 2018.

Ms. Ngan holds a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Hong Kong Institute of Directors. With effect from 1 September 2022, Ms. Ngan, the Independent Non-executive Director of the Company, has been appointed as the chairman of the ESG Committee; Mr. Ni Quiaque Lai, the Executive Director of the Company, Mr. Agus Tandiono, the Non-executive Director of the Company, and Mr. Stanley Chow, the Independent Non-executive Director of the Company, have been appointed as members of the ESG Committee.