Chen Xizhong
Executive Chairman

Chen Xizhong was appointed to our Board on 26 December 2007. He is the founder of our Group and is responsible for the strategic development of our Group. Chen Xizhong has over 20 years of experience in the backpack industry. He joined the Huian Leather Company, a state owned enterprise engaged in the manufacturing of backpacks in 1982 as an apprentice and was eventually promoted to the head of the sales department of Huian Leather Company. He left Huian Leather Company in December 1994 and went on to work in Dabao in 1995 and was subsequently made the executive director. After gaining much expertise, Chen Xizhong incorporated Dapai in April 2003. He has been in charge and responsible for Dapai’s daily operations and was eventually made the executive director of Dapai, a position which he still holds today.

Chen Xizhong graduated from Fujian Huian Province Number One Secondary School in 1980 with a certificate in Business. Throughout his years in the backpack industry, he has won many awards such as “Chinese Entrepreneur Figures of the year 2000”. He has also assumed leadership positions in a number of various organisations in China such as the Vice- Chairman of Quanzhou Fengze North Street Federation of Overseas Chinese Citizens since 2004, and Vice-Chairman of Quanzhou Sino-Foreign Enterprise Society since 2007. Chen Xizhong is also a member of various other associations in China such as being a committee member of the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference of Huian County in 2006.

Chen Xizhong is the father of our CEO, Chen Yong and our Sales and Marketing Manager, Chen Yi.

Chen Yong
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

Chen Yong was appointed to our Board on 26 December 2007. He is responsible for the strategic development, the overall management and the sales and marketing of our Group. Chen Yong joined our Group’s sales and marketing department in August 2003. Although he only officially joined our Group in 2003, he had often assisted his father, Chen Xizhong, in the daily operations of our Group since young. Through his frequent involvement in our Group’s daily operatons since young, coupled with the experience he had gained when he officially joined our Group, he was made the assistant to the general manager of Dapai in 2004, the deputy general manager of Dapai in 2005, and eventually, the general manager of Dapai in 2006. Pursuant to the Restructuring Exercise, he was appointed the executive director of Dapai (HK) and Dapai. He was awarded “Entrepreneur of the Year 2006” by the Luocheng Town Committee. Chen Yong graduated from King George International College with a specialised diploma in Business in July 2003. Chen Yong is the son of our Executive Chairman, Chen Xizhong and is also the brother of our Sales and Marketing Manager, Chen Yi.

Wong Hung Khim
Lead Independent Director

Wong Hung Khim was appointed to our Board on 10 March 2008. Wong Hung Khim holds an Honours Degree in Physics from the University of Singapore and attended the Advanced Management Programme of Harvard Business School in 1980. Wong Hung Khim was a senior civil servant, having served as an Executive Director of the Port of Singapore Authority (“PSA”) from 1979 to 1987 and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Community Development in 1985. In 1987, Wong Hung Khim was seconded to the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore to re-structure and corporatise the statutory board. Upon restructuring and corporatisation, Wong Hung Khim subsequenly became the first President and Chief Executive Officer of SingTel. Wong Hung Khim was then seconded to be the Chairman of Jurong Town Corporation (“JTC”) from 1993 to 1997. After 31 years of distinguished service, Wong Hung Khim joined the private sector and became the Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delgro Corporation, a public listed company which operated public transport in Singapore, the United Kingdom and China. In recognition of its outstanding achievements in public service, Wong Hung Khim was awarded by the President of Singapore, the Meritorious Service Medal in 1992.Wong Hung Khim is also an Independent Director of Stamford Land Corporation and Medi-Flex Limited.

Lim Kern
Independent Director

Lim Kern was appointed to our Board on 27 February 2008. Lim Kern has over 15 years of experience in the finance sector, particularly in the field of mergers and acquisitions. From 1998 to 2003, Lim Kern was with General Electric Company based in USA and assumed various roles in various locations such as Plant Controller for GE STG Manufacturing and GE Global Supply Chain Finance in Schenectady, NY; Mergers and Acquisitions Leader for GE Power Systems in Atlanta; Global Acquisition advisor to Global CFO of Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY. From 2003 to 2006, Lim Kern was Chief Financial Officer of Eastman Kodak for Asia Pacific Region of New York-based Eastman Kodak Company where he was in charge of the overall financial aspects of the company’s operations in the Greater Asia Pacific Region. Lim Kern is currently the Vice President of Finance of The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel where he is responsible for the Four Seasons Properties in Macau (Mall Management, Gaming, Hotel Ops). Lim Kern graduated from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Financial & Management Accounting and went on to attend various executive programs at prestigious business schools such as the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Graduate School of Business in Harvard University.

Sam Kok Yin
Independent Director

Sam Kok Yin was appointed to our Board on 27 February 2008. Sam Kok Yin started his career as a practicing Advocate and Solicitor with Rajah & Tann in 2000. In 2003, he left to join Yeo Wee Kiong Law Corporation where he was made a Director in 2004. He also headed the China Practice at Yeo Wee Kiong Law Corporation until he left practice on 31 March 2007. His main areas of practice included corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate work and he had been involved in several initial public offerings, reverse takeovers, investment deals and other capital markets related transactions. Sam Kok Yin obtained his honours degree in law from the National University of Singapore in 2000 under an Overseas Union Bank scholarship. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2001. He was ranked in first position in the postgraduate Practical Law Course organised by the Board of Legal Education and awarded the Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par Memorial Prize.

In 2004, Sam Kok Yin was appointed as a Singapore-China Young Business Ambassador as part of a program organised by the Singapore International Foundation and spent 10 weeks in Shanghai as part of the exchange program. Sam Kok Yin is currently a director of Perennial Advisory Pte. Ltd., a company involved in investments and financial consultancy. He is also an independent director of China Sports International Limited, a China-based company listed on the Exchange which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of sports shoes and sports apparels.