Ms. Leah Dawn Xiaowei Ye, aged 66, was appointed as an independent non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 April 2019. Ms. Ye was the senior vice president, global affairs of Qualcomm Incorporated from 7 March 2022 to 18 December 2023. Prior to that, she was a partner of Rimon Law from 3 September 2020 to 6 March 2022. Ms. Ye was the managing partner of the Beijing representative office of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, an international law firm, from 2014 to 2018, and also the co-managing partner of the Beijing representative office of Bingham McCutchen LLP from 2011 to 2014 before it had a merger with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP. 

Ms. Ye has over 25 years of experience as a lawyer representing large Chinese companies, financial institutions and investment funds with respect to their overseas investments, project financing, and initial public listing and offerings. Ms. Ye has also represented multinationals in their investments and their regulatory matters in China. Prior to 2011, Ms. Ye was a resident partner at Allen & Overy and Jones Day in China from 2003 to 2004 and from 2004 to 2011, respectively. She also served as a senior lawyer at the Beijing representative office of Shearman & Sterling from 1995 to 2003. 

Ms. Ye is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia of the United States. Ms. Ye was also a member of the American Chamber of Commerce in the People’s Republic of China from 2004 to 2018. Ms. Ye graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University in 1983 and obtained a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1988. Ms. Ye’s alias and former name is 葉小瑋.