Lee Delman

Dr. LEE Delman was appointed a Director of the Company on 29 October 2012. Dr. LEE Delman holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the Imperial College, London. He is the Vice Chairman for TAL Apparel Limited ("TAL"). He is responsible for driving TAL's long-term strategy in operations, technology and value-added services to customers. He looks after information technology and supply chain projects – from IT infrastructure to logistics management throughout the entire organization. He is the architect behind TAL's current enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. He is also responsible for global operations initiatives such as standardization of work methods, cultivation of a continuous improvement organization and corporate social responsibility.

Dr. LEE Delman joined TAL in 2000. He was appointed a member of the TAL Group's Executive Committee in 2006 and became President and Chief Technology Officer in 2010. He currently holds the position of Vice Chairman. He has a strong background in research. Prior to joining TAL, he was a researcher at UK based Sharp Laboratories of Europe for three years. There, he was responsible for the commercial application of modern computer vision techniques to stereo photography and stereoscopic displays. He has worked as a research fellow at University of Pennsylvania in the US and University of Leeds in the UK in various aspects of imaging.

Dr. LEE Delman has been appointed as an independent non-executive director and a member of the Risk Committee commencing from 21 March 2017, the Chairman of the Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee from 26 November 2020 of The Bank of East Asia, Limited (listed on main board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited). He joined the board of Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd (a standard listing on the London Stock Exchange as its primary listing, with secondary listings in Bermuda and Singapore) on 9 May 2018.