Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000935
Chunk: 314

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 6
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 the chairman of DayOne, our equity investee, which was our consolidated subsidiary until December 31, 2024.

Mr. Daniel Newmanhas served as the chief financial officer of GDS since September 2011. Prior to joining us in this capacity, Mr. Newman acted as an advisor to GDS from 2009 to 2011. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Newman served as a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch with responsibility for investment banking clients in the telecom, media, and technology sectors in Asia. From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Newman acted as an advisor in the chairman’s office of Reliance Communications in Mumbai, India. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Newman served as a managing director at Deutsche Bank with responsibility for investment banking clients in the telecom and media sectors in Asia. Mr. Newman previously worked as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers (and its successors) from 1997 to 2001 and at S. G. Warburg (and its successors) from 1983 to 1997 in London and Hong Kong. Mr. Newman received his bachelor’s degree in history from Bristol University in the UK in 1983.

Mr. Sio Tat Hiangis vice-chairman of our board of directors and has been a director of our company since August 2014. Since 2020, Mr. Sio has been a director of Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd (the sole indirect shareholder of STT GDC), and STT Communications Ltd. From 2012 to 2020 Mr. Sio was a director of STT GDC, from 2017 to 2020 Mr. Sio was the chairman of the board of STT GDC and from 2017 to 2022 Mr. Sio was the Chairman of the Board of Virtus HoldCo Limited. In addition, Mr. Sio currently also sits on the Board of U Mobile Sdn Bhd and is the chairman of the board of STT Global Data Centers India Private Limited. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration with honors from the National University of Singapore and attended the London Business School Senior Executive Programme.

Mr. Satoshi Okadahas been a director of our company since June 2014. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Okada had held various management positions within the Softbank Corp. group. Since 2008, he also serves as a director ofAl