Paul Jeremy Brough is the Executive Chairman of the Company. Mr. Brough is an Independent Non-Executive Director of GL Limited (listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange) and Vitasoy International Holdings Limited (listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange); and an Independent Non-Executive Director of Habib Bank Zurich (Hong Kong) Limited, a Hong Kong restricted licence bank. Mr. Brough came to Hong Kong in 1983 to join KPMG, where he became a Partner in 1991, and later became the Senior Partner of Hong Kong. He retired from KPMG in 2012. Mr. Brough is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute.

William James Randall is an Executive Director and CEO of the Company. Mr. Randall’s career started with Noble Group in Australia in February 1997, transferring to Asia in 1999 where he established Noble’s coal operations, mining and supply chain management businesses. He served as a Director of Noble Energy Inc before being appointed Global Head of Coal & Coke in 2006, and a member of the Noble Group internal management Board in 2008. He was appointed an Executive Director and Head of Hard Commodities in 2012, prior to which he was Head of Energy Coal & Carbon Complex. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business from the Australian Catholic University, majoring in international marketing and finance.

Paul Alan Jackaman is an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Jackaman joined Noble Group in Singapore in 2014, transferring to Hong Kong in May 2016. He received his degree in Business Maths from Kent University in 1994 before joining Deloitte & Touche in London. In 1997 he qualified as a Chartered Accountant before leaving to start a 17 year career in Investment Banking & Commodities at Bear Stearns, JP Morgan, Nomura and Macquarie and across Europe, US and Asia-Pacific. In 2010 he relocated to Sydney as CFO of Macquarie’s Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities business combining this responsibility with head of finance for EMEA.

Joseph William Swanson is a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Swanson is a Senior Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey and Co-Head of the firm’s European Restructuring Group. He has more than two decades of investment banking experience, including corporate restructurings, M&A, and the issuance of both public and private debt and equity securities.

Andrew William Herd is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Herd is the founder of Lancashire Court Capital Limited, a London-based investment and consultancy business. He was an investment banker specialising in financial institutions sector merger and acquisition advisory work and had senior roles with Morgan Grenfell, Paribas Capital Markets and SG Hambros. He is a non-executive director of United Trust Bank Limited and its holding company UTB Partners Limited and has experience of major financial restructurings.

Fraser James Pearce is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Pearce is an experienced executive in the UK and European stressed and distressed restructuring arena across all sectors. He is the founder of Fraser Pearce Consulting, which provides strategic restructuring and divestment consultancy to major UK corporates, with clients including a restaurant group and a retail sector focused investment fund.

James Michael Dubow is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Dubow is the Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal, Hong Kong ("A&M"). He leads A&M Asia, one of the firm’s most dynamic and rapidly growing geographies. The Asia team brings the firm’s hands-on and action-oriented approach to A&M’s private equity, banking and corporate clients in all our disciplines, including pre-acquisition due diligence, performance improvement, restructuring, fraud investigations and data analytics. Mr. Dubow assists companies and their stakeholders to grow revenue, increase profits and enhance cash return on assets. When control is important to driving change, he has taken CEO, CFO, CRO, CTO or Director roles at private equity-owned local companies, multinationals and a Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE). In addition to operating transformations, he has assisted companies to raise capital, restructure debt and complete trade sales. His industry experience spans consumer retail, energy, healthcare and financial services.

Ajit Vijay Joshi is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr Joshi has extensive experience in private and public securities (both equities and debt) and financial advisory. He has successfully raised financing for companies across various industries including those in the oil & gas, real estate and hospitality industries. Mr Joshi is an investment director of ADCM Altus Investment Management Ltd, which is the investment manager of Goldilocks Investment Company Limited.