Biography

Chun Kwok Alan Au has served as our director since January 2020. Mr. Au is the founder of GT Healthcare, a private equity fund focusing on cross border healthcare investments and has served as a managing partner since September 2015. Mr. Au has served as a member of the board of directors, and the chairman of the audit committee of CSPC Pharmaceutical Group (HKEX: 1093), a leading pharmaceutical group in China, since January 2021. Mr. Au also has served as a panel member for the Entrepreneur Support Scheme (ESS Program) of the Innovation and Technology Fund of the Hong Kong SAR Government from 2014 to 2022. Mr. Au was an advisor to Simcere Pharmaceutical Group, a leading pharmaceutical company in China (previously listed on NYSE: SCR, privatized in December 2013, when Mr. Au served as chairman of the special committee on the board of directors). Mr. Au was also a member of the board of China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd. (NYSE: NPD, privatized in September 2016) from 2013 to 2016. He was also a member of the board of Cellular BioMedicine Group (Nasdaq: CBMG, privatized in February 2021), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical firm engaged in the development of immunotherapies for cancer and stem cell therapies from 2014 to February 2021. Prior to these, Mr. Au served as the head of the Asia Healthcare Investment Banking of Deutsche Bank Group, advising healthcare IPOs and M&A in the region from 2011 to 2012. Prior to that, Mr. Au served as an investment director at JAFCO Asia Investment Group, responsible for healthcare investments in China from 2008 to 2010. Mr. Au worked at Morningside Group as a director in charge of healthcare investments in Asia from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Au received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995 and his master’s degree in management from Columbia Business School in New York in 2007. Mr. Au is a certified public accountant (CPA) in the United States and a chartered financial analyst (CFA). He is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Financial Analysts and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.