Nicholas Sallnow-Smith is the Chairman of the Board of The Link Management Limited and Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company since April 2007. He is also Chairman of its Finance and Investment, and Nominations Committees. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Dah Sing Financial Holdings Limited and Dah Sing Bank, Limited, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of LionRock Master Fund Limited in Singapore and a member of the Advisory Board of Winnington Group. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Wynn Macau, Limited. Additionally Mr Sallnow-Smith is a Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society, Chairman of the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, a member of the Council of the Treasury Markets Association and a member of General Committee of The British Chamber of Commerce in HK. Prior to joining The Link Management, Mr Sallnow-Smith was Chief Executive of Hongkong Land Holdings Limited from 2000-07. He has a wide ranging finance background in Asia and the UK for over 30 years, including seven years as a Finance Director and Treasurer with the Jardine Matheson Group. Mr Sallnow-Smith’s early career was spent in the British Civil Service from1975-85. He left the Civil Service in 1985, following a period working in the International Finance section of H. M. Treasury on Paris Club and other international debt policy matters, and spent two years with Lloyds Bank before moving into the corporate sector in 1987.