Mr John Russell SAUNDERS, aged 60, has been an Executive Director and a member of the Finance and Investment Committee of Link since January 2026. He has been the Chief Investment Officer of Link since March 2024. He focuses on asset management of the portfolio as well as investment strategies and third party capital partnerships. Mr SAUNDERS is one of the responsible officers of Link for the purposes of the Securities and Futures Ordinance and a director of a number of subsidiaries of Link REIT.

Mr SAUNDERS has been based in Hong Kong for over 30 years and during this time has accumulated deep property industry experience and established a strong investment and asset management track record spanning the APAC region. He was most recently at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, as Head of Asia Pacific Real Estate and Global Head of the Real Estate Client business. Mr SAUNDERS was, in addition, the Portfolio Manager for the Asia Value Add Fund Series and sat on the firm's Global Real Estate Investment Committee.

He joined BlackRock through its merger with MGPA in 2013 when he was the firm’s Chief Executive Officer of Asia and the Portfolio Manager of their Asian Property Funds series. Prior to joining MGPA, he worked for CLSA between 1999 and 2007, running their regional property research effort and starting their Asian Property Fund in which he served as an investment committee member. Prior to that, he worked at Hongkong Land from 1994 to 1998 where he was involved with the development and leasing of several landmark projects in Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian countries.

Mr SAUNDERS is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. He holds a Diploma in Surveying from the United Kingdom’s College of Estate Management.