On November 7, 2011, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of SkyPeople Fruit Juice, Inc. (the "Company"), elected Messrs. Lu Baosheng and Wang Tao as new members of the Board, effective immediately, with a term that continues until the Company's 2012 annual meeting of shareholders and until their respective successors have been duly elected and qualified. The Board determined that the newly appointed directors are "independent directors" as defined by Rule 4200(a)(15) of the Marketplace Rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
On the same date, the existing independent directors of the Board, consisting of Messrs. John Smagula, Norman Ko and Guolin Wang, appointed Messrs. Lu and Wang to serve as members of an evaluation committee of the Board. The Board previously approved the establishment of an evaluation committee of the Board and charged the independent directors to appoint members of the evaluation committee in response to certain demand letters that the Company received from a shareholder of the Company. The Company reported the receipt of the shareholder demand letter in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Three Month ended June 30, 2011.
For their respective services as a director of the Board and a member of the evaluation committee, each of the newly appointed directors shall be compensated at RMB50,000 per year in cash, which cash compensation shall be in addition to any other benefits that a director of the Board may generally be qualified for and/or entitled to currently or in the future.
Lu Baosheng has been serving as Director of Jiangsu Office of Beijing Huashen (Zhongshen) Accounting Co., Ltd since November 2011. Mr. Lu served as a Manager of Shanghai Donghuaï¼Dongshenï¼Accounting Co., Ltd. from 2000 through 2010. Mr. Lu earned a Master of Law from Chinese Academy of Social Science in 2003 specializing in Civil and Commercial Law , and a Bachelor of Accounting from South Western University of Finance and Economics in 1989. Mr. Lu is a licensed CPA in China with 20 years experience. He has assisted around 20 companies in going public in China and participated in the financial auditing and project auditing for a couple of large state-owned enterprises. He is also a Deputy Secretary of Shaanxi Western Development Fund and holds an independent director certificate granted jointly by China Securities Association and Shanghai National Accounting Institute.
Wang Tao has been a senior legal counsel at Shaanxi Silkroad Law Firm since October 2011. He was an associate attorney of Shaanxi Dongrui Law Firm from July 2007 to September 2011. He worked as a Human Resources supervisor for Shaanxi Tianju Investment Group Ltd. from August 2004 to July 2007. Mr. Wang obtained his LL.B. degree from the Xi'an University of Finance and Economics in July 2000 and is a licensed attorney in China. Mr. Wang has litigated a large number of cases in China. He has also advised a number of merger and acquisition as well as private equity transactions in recent years.
SkyPeople Fruit Juice, Inc. |
By: | /s/ Yongke Xue |
Name: Yongke Xue | |
Title: Chief Executive Officer |