Ms. Grace Xin Ge has served as our independent Director since May 2025. Ms. Ge is the founding partner of G-Bridge Partners, an investment and advisory firm that focuses on cross-border business building and venture scaling, operating in Europe and Asia, since September 2022. Ms. Ge served as an advisor of Du Xiaoman, a financial technology company spun off from Baidu, from February 2022 to December 2022 and was a senior vice president and the chief financial officer of Du Xiaoman from May 2019 to January 2022. Prior to that, she served as a partner of Ares Management Private Equity Group from June 2014 to December 2018. From August 2005 to May 2014, Ms. Ge served as a managing director at the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs. She was also a sponsor principal of Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. from January 2012 to May 2014. She worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Beijing and San Francisco from July 1998 to June 2003. Ms. Ge is currently an independent director on the board of Keep Inc., an online fitness platform and solutions company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 3650), and Goldstream Investment Limited, an investment management company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 1328). Ms. Ge was a Certified Public Accountant in the United States. Ms. Ge received her dual bachelor’s degrees in English literature and economics from Peking University and her master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School. Ms. Ge brings to our Board deep financial expertise and extensive global capital markets experience.