Joey Wat

Ms. Joey Wat has served as our Chief Executive Officer since March 2018 and as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2017. She served as our President and Chief Operating Officer from February 2017 to February 2018 and the Chief Executive Officer, KFC from October 2016 to February 2017, a position she held at Yum! Restaurants China, from August 2015 to October 2016. Ms. Wat joined Yum! Restaurants China in September 2014 as President of KFC China and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer for KFC China in August 2015. Before joining YUM, Ms. Wat served in both management and strategy positions at A.S. Watson Group (“Watson”), an international health, beauty and lifestyle retailer, in the U.K. from 2004 to 2014. Her last position at Watson was managing director of Watson Health & Beauty U.K., which operates Superdrug and Savers, two retail chains specializing in the sale of pharmacy and health and beauty products, from 2012 to 2014. She made the transition from head of strategy of Watson in Europe to managing director of Savers in 2007. Before joining Watson, Ms. Wat spent seven years in management consulting including with McKinsey & Company’s Hong Kong office from 2000 to 2003. Ms. Wat obtained a master of management degree from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2000. Ms. Wat has been honored with consecutive inclusion in the Forbes “The World’s Most Powerful Women” list from 2020 to 2023 and Forbes China “100 Top Businesswomen List” from 2019 to 2023. Additionally, since 2018 she has been continually recognized on Fortune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Business” list and Fortune China’s “50 Business Leaders”. In 2020, she was also named to Business Insider’s “100 People Transforming Business in Asia” list. Ms. Wat brings to our Board extensive knowledge of the Company’s business and her industry acumen acquired in the course of a career that included several leadership roles in retail companies.