Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000935
Chunk: 313

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
Chunk 313
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ITEM 6. DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES

A. Directors and Senior Management

The following table sets forth certain information relating to our directors, executive officers and senior management.

  Name                    Age      Position/Title                                                        
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  William Wei Huang‡       57      Chairman and chief executive officer                                  
  Daniel Newman            64      Chief financial officer                                               
  Sio Tat Hiang†           77      Vice-chairman                                                         
  Satoshi Okada‡           66      Director                                                              
  Bruno Lopez†             60      Director                                                              
  Liu Chee Ming†           74      Director                                                              
  Lim Ah Doo‡              75      Independent director                                                  
  Bin Yu°°                 55      Independent director                                                  
  Zulkifli Baharudin       65      Independent director                                                  
  Chang Sun‡               68      Independent director                                                  
  Gary J. Wojtaszek‡       59      Director                                                              
  Judy Qing Ye             55      Independent director                                                  
  Jonathan King            48      Member of the executive committee                                     
  Yan Liang                49      Executive vice president, data center design, operation and delivery  
  Kejing Zhang             42      Executive vice president, sales and service                           
  Jessie Yixin Qian        53      Executive vice president, operation                                   

† Designated as an STT Garnet appointee.

‡ Designated as a Class B director nominee and subject to Class B 20-vote-per-share voting.

°° Designated as a director subject to Class B 20-vote-per-share voting.

We have received from each independent director an annual confirmation of his/her independence pursuant to the Hong Kong Listing Rules and we consider them as independent.

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Mr. William Wei Huangis our founder, chairman of our board of directors and, since 2002, has served as our chief executive officer. From 2004 to 2020, Mr. Huang also served as a director of Haitong-Fortis Private Equity Fund Management Co., Ltd., a domestic private equity fund management company in China. Prior to founding our company, he served as a senior vice president of Shanghai Meining Computer Software Co., Ltd., which operates StockStar. com, a website primarily providing finance and securities related information and services in China. Mr. Huang also acts as a director and