Independent Non-executive Director

Kut Ying Hay

Kut Ying Hay

Mr. Kut Ying Hay was born in January 1955. He is a retired solicitor and a retired notary public in Hong Kong and had been in practice in the name of Kut & Co. for more than 25 years. He obtained qualification as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, and the Supreme Court of Singapore, and as an associate member of the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators and the Institute of Arbitrators, Australia. He was appointed by the Hong Kong Government as a member of the Board of Review for the period from 1995 to 1998. He was also appointed by the Ministry of Justice of the PRC as a China Appointed Attesting Officer (now retired). Mr. Kut was formerly an Independent Non-executive Director of publicly-listed China Merchants China Direct Investments Limited from June 1993 to October 2011. He was appointed to the Board of Directors as Independent Non-executive Director on 6 June 1992. He is also the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company.