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PROFILES OF DIRECTORS AND SENIOR MANAGEMENT
Mr Desmond MURRAY, aged 58, was appointed as an independent non-executive director of the
Company on 27 July 2011. Mr Murray graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University
College Dublin in 1976 and is a qualified accountant and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified
Public Accountants. He was an audit partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Hong Kong from 1987 to 2000.
Since withdrawing from practice with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr Murray has taken on a number of
non-executive directorships. These include two major retailers in Ireland and Clear Media Limited, a
company listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, for which he is also chairman of
its audit committee. Mr Murray is also a non-executive director of iShares plc, iShares II plc, iShares
III plc, iShares IV plc and iShares V plc, companies all listed on the Main Board of the London Stock
Exchange. He also acts as a business consultant to a number of smaller businesses. While working
with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr Murray advised boards and audit committees of companies listed in
Hong Kong, both as an audit partner and as an adviser in relation to both internal audit and corporate
governance. He was Honorary Consul for Ireland in Hong Kong from 1996 to 1999.
Mr HE Yi (), aged 59, is an independent non-executive director of the Company. Mr He studied
management and strategy from HEC International Business School (Ecole des Hautes Etudes
Commerciales) from 1989 to 1991. Mr He has been a director of the Company since 27 June 2011 and
is also currently a director of Essilor International (Compagnie Generale d’Optique), listed on the NYSE-
Euronext stock exchange. From 1978 to 1989, he was a representative of the People’s Republic of China
Embassy in France, Paris where he was successively in charge of office affairs, cultural affairs, protocol,
relations with media and cooperation in administrative matters between the PRC and France. From 1991
to 1996, he joined the Danone Group’s Shanghai subsidiary as a general manager. Mr He joined the
Essilor Group as the chief executive officer of Shanghai Essilor Optical Co., Ltd. in 1996 and has been
the chairman of Essilor (China) Holding Company and a director of Essilor International since 2010.
Senior Management
Mr Jean-Patrick PAUFICHET, aged 60, is the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the group of
subsidiaries operating under the “Auchan” banner in China. He is responsible for the financial, controlling
and legal matters of the operations under the “Auchan” banner of the Group. Prior to joining the Group
in 2004, Mr Paufichet has been with Groupe Auchan, one of the two ultimate controlling shareholders of
the Group. From 1978 to 2004, Mr Paufichet has held various positions in Groupe Auchan’s operations
worldwide, including the position of chief financial officer of Groupe Auchan’s operations in the United
States and Poland, store manager of certain “Auchan” hypermarkets in Italy and France and group
controller for Groupe Auchan’s operations in France and Italy. Mr Paufichet is also a director of certain
of the subsidiaries of the Group including ACHK and ACI as well as various other operating subsidiaries
in the PRC under the “Auchan” banner. Mr Paufichet received a degree from ESSEC Business School
(Diplome de L’ESSEC, E’cole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) in 1977.
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