Gao Zhi

Mr. Gao Zhi, aged 56, was appointed as an executive Director, the president and chief executive officer of the Company with effect from 9 January 2020, and he is responsible for all the businesses (except the financial business) of the Group. On 26 March 2020, he was appointed as the chairman of the Board. Mr. Gao graduated from Tsinghua University of China with a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1984 and a master's degree in business administration in 2006. He is currently the deputy president of Tsinghua Tongfang and has held various positions with the company since 1997 including assistant president, general manager of the operations center and the department of business administration, deputy general manager of sales center and applied information system headquarters. Prior to that, he was a manager at the production department of TsingHua TongFang Artificial Environment Co., Ltd from September 1989 to July 1997, and a teacher with Taiyuan Engineering College from August 1984 to September 1989.