Hamilton, Bermuda - May 14, 2013, Hamilton, Bermuda - Greenheart Group, a forestry company, announced the appointment of Paul Jeremy Broug, Colin Denis Keogh, and Tong Sai Wang as non-executive directors.
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Mr. Brough was educated in the United Kingdom. He moved to Hong Kong in 1983 to join the international accounting firm, KPMG. He became a partner of KPMG in 1991 specialising in the audit of banks. In 1997, he became the head of KPMG's Transactions & Restructuring practice for Hong Kong and China and subsequently, in 2001, he became the Head of KPMG's Asia-Pacific T&R practice.
As Asia-Pacific leader, Mr. Brough was also a member of KPMG's international T&R board. He became regional senior partner of KPMG Hong Kong in 2009. His major projects include over 30 restructuring and insolvency assignments in Hong Kong and China, including acting as liquidator of a number of Lehman Brothers entities across Asia-Pacific, acting as manager of a financial institution on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and numerous M&A transactions.
In March 2012, Mr. Brough retired from KPMG and established Blue Willow Limited. He is a director of the controlling shareholder of the Company, Sino-Capital Global Inc., its holding company and ultimate holding company, Emerald Plantation Group Limited and Emerald Plantation Holdings Limited. He is also an independent non-executive director and a member of audit and risk committee of GuocoLeisure Limited.
Mr. Brough is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, an associate of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and an associate of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute.
Mr. Keogh previously worked at Close Brothers Group for 24 years. In his career at Close Brothers, he had served as the CEO of Close Brothers Corporate Finance Limited, the CEO of Close Asset Management Limited and for seven years from 2002 until he left the group, the Close Brothers group's CEO.
Mr. Keogh is a director of the controlling shareholder of the Company, SinoCapital Global Inc, its holding company and ultimate holding company, Emerald Plantation Group Limited and Emerald Plantation Holdings Limited, respectively.
Mr. Keogh is an independent as non-executive director of Virgin Money Holdings UK Limited. He is also a non-executive director of Brait SE.
Mr. Wang is a banker with more than 36 years of experience. He joined The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) in 1973, and had served as the Chief Executive
Officer in charge of Mainland China and succeeded in making HSBC the largest foreign
bank in Mainland China. He had also held the position as Regional President West Coast
USA of HSBC.
Mr. Wang was appointed as President of China Minsheng Bank. He is a director of the controlling shareholder of the Company, namely SinoCapital Global Inc, its holding company and ultimate holding company, Emerald Plantation Group Limited and Emerald Plantation Holdings Limited. He was an independent non-executive director of Pearl Oriental Oil Limited. ■