The board (the ‘‘Board’’) of Directors (the ‘‘Directors’’) of Samson Paper Holdings Limited announced that with effect from the conclusion of the special general meeting of the Company held on 9 December 2019, Mr. LEE Seng Jin (‘‘Mr. LEE’’), who has worked at the Group for 22 years, has been appointed as the Chairman of the Company whilst continuing with his present role as an executive Director and the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and concluding his role as Deputy Chairman of the Company. Mr. LEE, aged 62, has been an executive Director and the Deputy Chairman of the Company since 1998. In 2002, he was further appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and is responsible for the formulation of the Group’s corporate strategies and development. He has also been a member of the remuneration committee of the Company since 2005 and the Chairman of the nomination committee of the Company since 2012. In addition, Mr. LEE is a director of certain subsidiaries of the Group and a director of Quinselle Holdings Limited, a substantial shareholder of the Company. Mr. LEE was the Chairman and a director of United Pulp and Paper Company Limited, a listed public company in Singapore, from November 2002 to April 2009.