Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited announced that with effect from 28 November 2023, each of Ms. Barbara Jane Ryan, Mr. David Gordon Eldon GBS, CBE, JP, Mr. Marwan Jassim Sulaiman Jassim Alsarkal and Prof. Wang Jianyu has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director. Ms. Ryan, aged 71, holds master's degrees in geography from the University of Denver and in civil engineering from Stanford University respectively and has been awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from her alma mater, the State University of New York at Cortland. Since January of 2021, she has become the second executive director of the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC), a non-profit trade association of private-sector companies working in the geospatial and earth observation ecosystem, a position she still holds today.

She serves on several boards and advisory committees including for two start-ups Azimuth1 and Data for Development Insights (D4DInsights), the Ecological Sequestration Trust, the International Centre for Earth Simulation (ICES), the International Symposium for Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE), and from 2018-2021, the Jane Goodall Institute. Ms. Ryan has served as chair of the International Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). She has been named an honorary fellow of the American Geographical Society, in 2017 she was one of 10 global leaders to be named to the Geospatial World Forum's Hall of Fame, and in 2019 she was awarded the United States Department of Interior and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Pecora Award.

Ms. Ryan began her career in the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the largest natural resource science and civilian mapping agency in the United States. From 2008 to 2012, she was director of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) space programme, and from 2012 to 2018, Ms. Ryan was the secretariat director of the intergovernmental group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Eldon, aged 78, commenced his career in banking in London in 1964.

He subsequently took up various position within the HSBC Group in different countries including Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Mr. Eldon was made an executive director of HSBC in January 1994, chief executive officer in 1996 and chairman in 1999. In 1996, Mr. Eldon was made chairman of Hang Seng Bank Ltd., a member of the HSBC Group and was appointed as a director of HSBC Holdings plc in 1999.

He retired from the HSBC Group in 2005. Later in the same year, he served as chairman of the Dubai International Financial Center Authority until June 2011. Mr. Eldon returned to banking in 2011 to become non-executive chairman of HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, and between 2013-2017 was chairman of HSBC Bank Oman.

In 2017 he added the roles of non-executive chairman for HSBC Bank Egypt, HSBC Bank Turkey, and HSBC Middle East Holdings. He stepped down from all those roles during 2021. In 2021 he was appointed to the role of deputy chairman of HSBC Asia Pacific, and sits on several board committees.

He is advisor to the chief executive officer of HSBC's Global Commercial Bank. Mr. Eldon was senior adviser at PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2005 to 2014, an adviser to Singapore-based Southern Capital Group a private equity firm, and to Hong Kong-based but international property group RIBCA Holdings. Between 2016 and 2019 he was an adviser to Thailand's CP Group on their corporate governance committee, and from 2016 to 2022, was chairman of Octopus Holdings Limited and Octopus Cards Ltd. in Hong Kong.

In 2023, he was appointed as an adviser to the Hong Kong Middle East Business Chamber and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (``HKSAR Government'')'s Hong Kong Academy for Wealth Legacy. Mr. Eldon is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (FCIB). He was conferred honorary doctor of business administration by the City University of Hong Kong in 2003.

He was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star (GBS) by the HKSAR Government. In 2005 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his contribution to banking and awarded honorary citizenship of Seoul in recognition of his work for the city. In 2011 Mr. Eldon was conferred honorary doctor of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

Mr. Eldon is a Justice of the Peace (JP). Prof. Wang, aged 64, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and researcher professor of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (``SITP''), CAS. He obtained his bachelor of science in physics from Hangzhou University, Hangzhou, China in 1982, his master of engineering in photoelectric technique and doctor of philosophy in photoelectric Technique from SITP in 1987 and 1990 respectively.

Prof. Wang is the associate editor of ``Journal of Infrared and Millimetre Wave'' and ``Journal of Applied Science'' and serves as a member of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Chinese Committee and chairman of SPIE Asia Pacific Conference on multispectral/hyperspectral remote sensing technology and application. Prof. Wang was appointed as the deputy director of SITP from 1997 to 2020, director of SITP from 2000 to 2008, vice president of CAS from 2008 to 2017 and president of CAS from 2017 to 2020. He was also held various positions at SITP, he was appointed as assistant professor from 1990 to 1993, associate professor from 1993 to 1995 and professor from 1995 onwards.