Born in 1962, Mr. Victor Zhikai Gao is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Company Secretary of the Company. Mr. Gao graduated from Suzhou University in 1981 with a B.A. degree in English Literature,and from Beijing University of Foreign Studies in 1983 with a M.A. degree in English Literature. Mr. Gao obtained a M.A. degree in Political Science from Yale Graduate School in 1990, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1993. Mr. Gao is a licensed attorney-at-law in the State of New York, and was a licensed financial advisor with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong from 1994 to 1999. Mr. Gao’s extensive previous working experiences included services with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, the United Nations Secretariat in New York City, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in New York City, Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong, China International Capital Corporation in Beijing and Hong Kong, and PCCW and Henderson (China) Investment Co., Ltd. Mr. Gao was the China Policy Advisor with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong between 1999 and 2000. |