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Operates China’s largest entertainment group

“ A man of Napoleonic ambition” according to The Economist

The richest person in Asia in 2015 and 2016, as estimated by Forbes

Serves as a member of Mediclinc’s Quality Committee

Born in 1983, Mediclinic currently owns seventy-three hospitals and thirty-four clinics

Operations in South Africa, Namibia, Switzerland and UAE

Son of a Red Army hero, Wang joined the People’s Liberation Army at

the age of 15. He spent 16 years in the Chinese military. After realizing

that being a government official didn’t suit him, he became a property

developer and using $80,000 founded what would become China’s

biggest private property development company. Wang has been

Wanda’s chairman since 1989 and under his stewardship the company

has turned countless properties in deficit into cash cows, usually in a

short space of time. Spending more than $10 billion on M&A since

2012, the rapidly-growing enterprise is looking to establish a global

presence by implementing inorganic growth. Examples of this include

the acquisition of Infront Sports & Media for $1.2 billion in 2015, and

the $3.5 billion acquisition of Legendary Entertainment earlier this year.

Wang is looking to complete at least five purchases worldwide in

2016, focusing on entertainment as well as financial services.

Danie Meintjes spent his youth on a farm in his native South Afri-

ca, but had bigger dreams. A self-made man, he started his career

as a creditor’s clerk before becoming an HR Officer at the Medicli-

nic Corporation. He then landed top-management positions in the

healthcare industry one of them being CEO of Mediclinic Internatio-

nal starting in 2010. Due to his previous positions, he gained the

know-how and experience that not only allowed him to half staff

turnover in difficult times but also to maximize revenue and profit

through business partnerships in Dubai. Meintjes is leading the

M&A scene in the Middle East. With its completed $2.2 billion

merger with UAE based Al Noor Hospitals Group on February

15th 2016, Mediclinic became the world’s largest private hospital

group and the third largest international health care group outside

the United States.

Jianlin Wang

Chairman, WANDA GROUP

Danie Meintjes

CEO, MEDICLINIC INTERNATIONAL