M&L Holdings Group Limited announced that Ms. LUK Pui Yin Grace (Ms. Luk) has been appointed an independent non-executive director of the Company with effect from 1 June 2024. Ms. Luk Pui Yin Grace, aged 59, is the licensed representative and Principal ? Fund Management of Bay Area Capital Partners Limited.

Ms. Luk has over 30 years of corporate governance and financial management experience in the Greater China region. From 2019 to early 2022, she was the Director of Finance of Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Limited, a research and development company supervised by the Innovation and Technology Commission of the HKSAR Government. From 2005 to 2018, she served as the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Hong Kong Shanghai Alliance Holdings Limited and the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of North Asia Strategic Holdings Limited.

She has also served as the Vice President of Dresdner Kleinwort Capital, Financial Controller of Ajia Partners (HK) Limited, Director and Financial Controller of Kleinwort Benson China Management Limited. She was the department head of category financial management department of Colgate Palmolive (HK) Limited and an auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co. in Hong Kong.

Ms. Luk received her Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a fellow of the UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and an associate of both the UK Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She is also a Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

The board further announces that upon the appointment of Ms. Luk as an independent non-executive director of the company, she is simultaneously appointed as a member of the Board's audit committee, remuneration committee, nomination committee, and corporate governance committee with effect from 1 June 2024.