Mr. Ye Xiaojie, born in 1986, is a Chinese national with no permanent residency abroad and holds a Ph.D. in Management from Xiamen University. Since 2013, he has been an associate professor and master supervisor of Shanghai National Accounting Institute, a visiting scholar at Arizona State University, and a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He is also a director of the Chinese Institute of Business Administration; a member of the Shanghai Audit Society; a member of the Taizhou Management Accounting Expert Advisory Committee; an independent director of Miracle Automation Engineering Co., Ltd. (stock code: 002009), Zhejiang Rifa Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. (stock code: 002520) and Xiamen Tungsten Co., Ltd. (stock code: 600549); and a reviewer of Nankai Business Review and Research on Economics and Management. Since March 2022, he has been an independent director of Endovastec™.