Mrs Chen was surprised to see that the mysterious Stan Harrison was this young, nevertheless she knew he deserves her respect, she extended a hand with a smile.
Stan accepted it. Her grip was steady, deliberate, practiced. The kind of handshake that functioned simultaneously as greeting and evaluation.
"It's a pleasure to finally put a face to the name," she said.
Her tone revealed nothing concrete, neither approval nor skepticism. Just the measured, professionally neutral warmth of a senior shareholder meeting a peer she had spent weeks preparing to assess.
"Likewise," Stan replied.
The remaining two introduced themselves in turn.
David Park. Mid-fifties. Eight-percent stake. Background in technology and distribution. The sort of investor whose questions during board exchanges had always been sharp, technical, and entirely free of sentiment.
