Mr. Kan Sze Man, joined the Company as Group General Counsel in 2001. Mr. Kan is a qualified solicitor by profession. He graduated from Wadham College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom in 1993 and qualified as solicitor in Hong Kong in 1997. He has worked in the commercial department of a leading Hong Kong law firm and a U.K. city firm, until joining Hikari Tsushi International Limited (now known as China Oil and Gas Group Limited) as its senior vice president and legal counsel in early 2000. Mr. Kan was also an executive director of the Company from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Kan is the brother-in-law of Mr. Chung Cho Yee, Mico, the non-executive Chariman of the Company and the controlling shareholder of the Company.