New directors

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Barry Tong 
Director of Specialist Advisory Services
Barry Tong has been appointed as Director of Specialist Advisory Services with effect from 1 April 2008.

Barry has over 13 yearsˇ¦ experience and specialises in financial advisory services. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, he worked as a manager in the Financial Advisory Services Department of an international accounting firm.

Barry has worked on various transaction advisory assignments, as well as corporate restructuring and financial monitoring engagements involving listed companies and entities incorporated in Hong Kong, mainland China and various other international jurisdictions. He has experiences in a wide range of forensic assignments including asset tracing and fraud investigations.

He holds an MBA degree and is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

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Kannie Wu
Director ˇV Training
Kannie Wu has been appointed as Director of Training with effect from 1 April 2008.

Kannie has accumulated over 15 years of experience in audit with clients involved in wide variety of industries including securities and futures brokerages, mutual funds, general trading, manufacturing, property investments etc, some of which are listed companies in Hong Kong or overseas. Kannie was also engaged on certain special exercises, such as flotation, due diligence reviews and internal control review and investigation of securities brokers.

From 2006, Kannie specialises her role in providing financial reporting support in relation to Hong Kong Financial Reporting Standards and International Financial Reporting Standards. In 2008, she is actively involved in training and development of the assurance personnel within the firm.

Kannie is a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong. She is also a member of certain working groups and committees of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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Mary Ho 
Tax Director
Mary Ho has been appointed as Tax Director with effect from 1 April 2008.

Mary specialises in Hong Kong and China tax. She provides advice to her clients on a wide range of tax issues including expatriate tax planning, cross-border corporate tax planning and structuring. She also advises client on transfer pricing issues and has assisted a number of clients to set up establishments in China.

Mary is also an experienced business researcher. Her business cases and teaching notes are distributed by Harvard Business Online and are used by world-wide educational institutions. She also co-authored a winning case on mergers and acquisitions in an international MBA case competition held in Montreal of Canada. Mary is one of the authors of the book entitled ˇ§Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship In Hong Kongˇ¨.

She received her first class honours degree in Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong and holds a Diploma in Advanced Securities Market Analysis (with Distinction) issued by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is also a member of the AICPA.

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Rainbow Ma
Director of China Practice
Rainbow Ma has been appointed as Director of China Practice with effect from 1 April 2008.

Rainbow joined Grant Thornton in 2004 and is now stationed in Guangzhou to provide professional service for the clients located in Shenzhen and Guangdong province. Prior to joining our Firm, she has accumulated over seven years of professional experience in other international accounting firms in Hong Kong and mainland China.

Rainbow has extensive assurance experience in a wide variety of industries including trading, electronics products manufacturing, pharmaceutical, printing, textile and airline transportation.
She has also been involved in various transaction support assignments including initial public offerings and financial due diligence in acquisitions of companies.

She is a Certified Public Accountant in Hong Kong, a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a member of China Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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Winnie Tsui
Tax Director
Winnie Tsui joined Grant Thornton as a Tax Director in March 2008.

Winnie had previously worked with two international accounting firms in Hong Kong and Beijing. She has extensive experience in providing tax advice to multinational companies investing into China, formulating market entry tax strategies, investment structure, tax regulatory, planning and compliance. She also provides tax review and planning to mainland companies that aim at IPO overseas.

Winnie has also been involved in numerous merger and acquisition projects and assisted companies on acquisition planning, tax due diligence and post acquisition restructuring. She had worked in the commercial sector for a conglomerate with investment project in China.