Candidate Profile Candidate Profile HANIF KANJI

Chief Executive Officer

Sinophi Healthcare Limited

Professional Experience:

Dr Hanif Kanji is the CEO of Sinophi Healthcare, a company founded in 2004 which invests in and manages hospitals in China. Sinophi is also bringing the next generation of cost-effective proton treatment systems for radiotherapy for cancer to China and SE Asia using technology derived from CERN. In late 2014, Hanif led the financing of a landmark deal in China which entailed the privatisation and acquisition of a 1,100 bed hospital in a RMB 800m (HK$1bn) transaction.

Dr. Kanji qualified as a doctor and has 11 years experience in banking with leading financial institutions including Prudential-Bache in London and New York, and Société Générale in Paris and Hong Kong. Hanif returned to healthcare in 2000 in a turnaround role as COO for EHealthCareAsia Ltd., a HK-listed company, where he led the development of an innovative medical claims processing and clinic management software, its subsequent implementation into Hong Kong’s largest physician group of 700 doctors, and turned the company from loss to profit in nine months. Dr. Kanji has had numerous speaking engagements at international healthcare conferences.

He graduated in medicine from Cambridge University and received his MBA from The Wharton School, USA.

Voluntary Contribution to Hong Kong:

Co-Chair – Insurance and Healthcare Committee, American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.

Quote from Spencer Stuart Hong Kong:

Hanif is a Cambridge University graduated medical doctor who spent a number of years practicing medicine, before he attended Wharton to get an MBA and become a healthcare entrepreneur. Hanif owns his own healthcare company that works with hospitals in PRC. Hanif plays a role bridging the UK, Hong Kong and China and has the rare and valuable skills of medicine and business.

DR. SHEKHAR KUMTA Professor

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professional Experience:

Dr. Shekhar Kumta has the following concurrent appointments:

• Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Honorary Senior Medical Officer, The Hospital Authority, Prince of Wales Hospital.

• Assistant Dean Medical Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• Director, The Teaching and Learning Resource Centre, Faculty of Medicine.

• Executive Director, CUHK Centre for Bioethics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Ethnicity:

Gender: Male

No. of years in Hong Kong: 27

Cantonese Speaking:

Cantonese Understanding:

Dr. Kumta has published over 100 articles in highly respected academic journals. He has been invited several times as a speaker both internationally and locally. Amongst his many accolades, he has been awarded the Fellowship ad hominem by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (UK) in 2015, UGC Award for Teaching Excellence by the University Grants Committee (UGC) in 2012 and the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award by CUHK in 2008.

Voluntary Contribution to Hong Kong:

• Instructor First aid and basic life support skills to higher secondary school / college students

• Counsellor for bereaved patients and for families of children with cancer.

• He assisted Government Information Service Departmentvideo recording for broadcast / communication with ethnic minorities during SARS crisis.

• Voluntary work in Ngau Tau Kok – interaction with members of Ethnic minorities - Ngau Tau Kok / Kwun Tong for Counselling & Educating through The Christian Aid.

• Community Outreach Kam Tin and Yuen Long – Minorities Health care Issues.

Quote from Spencer Stuart Hong Kong:

Dr. Shekhar is a professor and a medical doctor, an acclaimed and remarkable individual. His work is known globally and he has published in some of the world’s top rated medical journals. Born in India, Shekhar made Hong Kong his home 27 years ago. He has dedicated his life to Hong Kong people and their wellbeing. He also makes time to volunteer.

Ethnicity: + American

Gender: Male

No. of years in Hong Kong: 32

Cantonese Speaking: NIL

Cantonese Understanding: NIL