Global Ambassadors
USA
Xiaochen Zhang
Founder
Fintech4Good
Switzerland
Emi Lorincz
Founder
Fintech4Good
Austrailia
Angus Mackenzie
Founder
Mackenzie Co.
Global Ambassadors
Xiaochen Zhang
Founder
Fintech4Good
Emi Lorincz
Founder
Fintech4Good
Angus Mackenzie
Founder
Mackenzie Co.
Mr Peter Yan is a leading member of the information technology sector with over three decades of experience. He is now the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited and leads the digital technology flagship to carry out its public missions to foster industry development, enterprise transformation and talent cultivation to realise Cyberport’s vision to create new impetus for Hong Kong’s new economy through digital technology.
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Mr. Barry Chan has 20+ years of experience in consultation and information technology in Hong Kong. He expertises in leading digital transformation strategy formulation incorporating innovations in open banking, AI and blockchain etc. Barry has strong proven industry track record leading complex systems projects, bringing sustainable business value to banks and financial institutes.
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Mr. Barry Chan has 20+ years of experience in consultation and information technology in Hong Kong. He expertises in leading digital transformation strategy formulation incorporating innovations in open banking, AI and blockchain etc. Barry has strong proven industry track record leading complex systems projects, bringing sustainable business value to banks and financial institutes.
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As National Technology Officer at Microsoft Hong Kong, Fred Sheu supports policy decision and delivers technologically relevant and scalable solutions into Hong Kong market. His main objectives are to align IT value propositions to public policies in such areas as healthcare, education, the environment, and local social and economic development; and to promote a digital agenda in top policy areas, including innovation, security and privacy, technology neutrality, accessibility, and interoperability.
Prior to Microsoft, Fred worked with Hewlett Packard (HP) Enterprise where he was the General Manager of Software for HPE Hong Kong. Fred is an active veteran in Hong Kong ICT industry, he serves in councils of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS), itSMF Hong Kong Chapter and the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation (HKITF).Fred graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hon) degree.
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His current research focuses on blockchains, smart contracts, and computational law. He has authored 6 books and more than 600 papers in software engineering, service-oriented computing, and cloud computing with 12K citations and h-index > 57. He has supervised 80 Ph.D. and numerous master students. He travels widely and has held various honorable professorships in Asia and Europe.
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My practice focuses on advising clients within the virtual assets ecosystem in relation to virtual asset funds, tokenized funds, non-fund tokenized offerings and the regulatory requirements for providing infrastructure that services the virtual assets ecosystem. I also advise on a wide range of traditional fund formation transactions including private equity, real estate and hedge funds and related corporate matters.
I was named a “Rising Star” in asset management by Law360 in its 2018 report that recognizes the “top legal talent under 40” who are practicing at a level “usually seen from veteran attorneys”. I am recognized as "Up and Coming" in Investment Funds by Chambers 2021 and I was named a "Rising Star" in 2022 by China Business Law Journal as one of 20 young elite lawyers from international firms engaged in China-related business.
Representative transactions include advising:
• Knight Dragon on the tokenization of economic interests in building 4 of the Upper Riverside development, at the heart of its landmark Greenwich Peninsula project.
• Animoca Ventures on the establishment of a crossover digital assets fund with a focus on the metaverse and web3.
• Huobi Asset Management on SFC approval to manage 100% virtual asset portfolios and the launch of 5 virtual asset funds including tokenized funds.
• Axion Global Asset Management on SFC approval to manage 100% virtual asset portfolios and launch of the Smart Beta fund.
• MaiCapital on SFC approval to manage 100% virtual asset portfolios and a tokenized, bitcoin-themed, quant fund - Asia's first tokenized open-ended fund and the first actively managed cryptocurrency fund by an SFC-licensed manager.
• A fund manager on Asia's first closed-ended tokenized fund.
• Symphony Digital on the establishment of a DeFi fund investing in liquid and illiquid yield farming opportunities.
• GameFi Ventures on the establishment of a VC style fund investing in GameFi.
Publications and presentations include:
• "The Evolution of Digital Asset Fund Strategies" 2022
• "Crypto for VC Funds" with Animoca Brands, Alvarez & Marsal for HKPEFA, 2022
• "Real Estate STO Whitepaper" with Deloitte, HKBitEx and Colliers, 2021
• "Yield Farming, Crypto Punks and Aspencoin: What’s Next in Virtual Assets?" 2021
• "Real Estate Tokenization" 2020 with KPMG, Colliers and Liquefy, 2020
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Frankie is an international technology lawyer qualified in Hong Kong, New York, and England & Wales. Her practice covers a wide array of commercial and tech-related matters, including significant technology outsourcing transactions, Fintech, Regtech and blockchain services agreements and data privacy matters.
Frankie is a member of the Vetting Committee of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission’s General Support Programme, where she advises the Government on merits of technology projects. She is on the advisory board of the Stanford University’s Responsible Digital Leadership project. She teaches Regtech and Fintech programmes at postgraduate degrees, and has extensive experience sharing at professional bodies’ CPD programmes and industry conferences. Frankie has mentored distributed ledger technology companies at accelerator programmes.
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Kokila is a Corporate/Commercial and technology lawyer with over 17 years of experience in the middle east. She has worked with major corporations, government and semi government bodies, high net worth individuals and start-ups over the years. In addition to this, she has Masters in Law, in Digital Economy from the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, certification of Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme from Oxford University and Fintech Programme from Harvard Business School has helped her develop an expertise in the area of newer technologies.
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Sally has about 30 years of experience in electronics, communications, broadcast and new media industry, especially in the field of technology, marketing and business management with an intensive industry insights and leadership. Sally was awarded the National Science and Technology Award for IT research and development achievements in China. Previously she was Company executives of several listed companies and former Vice secretary of WECC, World Electronic Circuits Council and Vice Chairman of China Radio and Television Industry Association.
Sally is Chairman of Zcapital and holds various important roles at some good Hi-tech firms now.
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Simon has over 20 years’ experience in the financial markets, having worked for trading technology and market data vendors in commercial and product-centric roles. Most recently, Simon has consulted with small and start-up companies in the FinTech space, in particular digital asset firms and those looking to ICO. Prior to this, he was Global Marketing Director at Fidessa Group for over 10 years, where he was responsible for all positioning, branding, product and corporate marketing activities globally.
Simon has experience in both digital and traditional marketing, brand development, customer acquisition, go-to-market plans, strategy, entrepreneurship, business development, project management and international commerce. He has also been actively involved in the design, launch and support of trading systems across various asset classes.
Simon has a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Brunel University.
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Mr. Christopher D. Carl, also known as Chris, is the President & CEO at DigiMaxGlobal Solutions Inc. Mr. Carl founded Bio-Extraction Ltd. in 2003 and has been its President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2003 respectively. Mr. Carl served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of BioExx Specialty Proteins Ltd. (alternate name: Bio-Extraction Inc) from March 2006 to August 2011. Mr. Carl has over 25 years experience in project finance, plant construction and mill management focused on commercializing new technologies and transforming start-up ventures into successful publicly listed companies. This includes and 11 years (from 1991 to 2002) developing and operating The CanFibre Group Ltd. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of The CanFibre Group Ltd. Prior to this, he also spent several years (1986 to 1991) with a Canadian subsidiary of Tenneco Inc. where he was responsible for finance and administration matters both domestically and internationally and was directly involved in Greenfield, which was the construction of a new processing plant on a previously vacant piece of land and plant operations. Mr. Carl has been an Executive Director of Bio-Extraction Inc. since March 16, 2006. He has been a Director of Key Venture Capital Inc., since September 15, 2010, Kafus Industries Ltd since October 1997 and of Bio-Extraction Ltd. since January 2003. He also serves as Director of Signet Industries Ltd. He served as a Director of Luxell Technologies Inc. from June 4, 2007 to August 21, 2008. Mr. Carl also served as Director of Kingsmill Capital Ventures Inc. from October 2005 to August 21, 2008. Mr. Carl holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University
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Sonny Kwon is a serial digital entrepreneur focused on digital media and distributed ledger technology. He is the founder and CEO of PUBLISH Inc., a blockchain-based software solutions provider for newspaper businesses. He is also the founder and managing editor of two digital-native news websites including EconoTimes and TokenPost. In 2012, he started FxWirePro, a foreign exchange intelligence company, to provide intelligence newswire services to global financial institutions.
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Branson Lee is an EXCO member of the Singapore FinTech Association since 2017 as well as the Token Economy Association.
He has over 10 years of experience in sales management in business information and technology companies dealing with government, statutory boards, financial Institutions, corporates in South East Asia. He has consulted for Gartner Inc, working with CIO/CEOs of some of the largest brands in Singapore. During his stint in LinkedIn, Branson engaged and advised Fortune 500 companies in Indonesia and Singapore on their social media strategy.
Having started off his career as an engineer with Sun Microsystems, he is currently the CEO of a digital asset exchange, ecxx.com. Branson is also a frequent speaker at blockchain workshops / seminars for financial institutions, government agencies and private events.
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Doer Qu is a senior expert in block chain industry and the founder of IDHub(a famous block chain digital identity project).He served as vice President of block chain division for the 21VIANET (NASDAQ:VNET).
21VIANET is China’s largest telecommunications neutral Internet infrastructure service provider, aslo is torchbearer and early investor of the block chain industry in China. Mr. Qu led a series of innovation projects in the block chain during 21VIANET.
Mr.Qu is the chairman of the communications services company Pivotal Telecom Service co., with rich experience in business management and market, ever led the international team to develop telecom market of the India, Vietnam, Thailand. Mr.Qu has 17 years of experience in mobile communication technology development and operation and maintenance management. He has presided over the development of telecom network optimization and analysis system and won the second prize of national science and technology progress. Mr.Qu had established and managed Rising Tech co.(a leading mobile network optimization company in China.)
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Mr.Jérôme A. Schonbachler is Founder of TheMFO, an independent regulated fiduciary & family office services company with offices in Zurich, Geneva, Malta and Dubai.
He is also the founder and external director at TAAS Capital Fund, the first Luxembourg open-end investment fund with a primary focus on blockchain.
Prior, Mr. Schonbachler was heads the alternative investment activities for EFG Bank, part of global private banking group EFG International. Prior to EFG Bank, he was the global product manager for both the consumer bank and private bank, creating the third-party asset management offering in EMEA, Asia and Japan. He spent 16 months as an actuary for Sorema UK in the Lloyd’s of London reinsurance market, developing forecast reinsurance models. Before that, he worked at Paribas Capital Markets for business developments, and in capital markets division of Credit Lyonnais as a swaps trader. Mr. Schonbachler earned a degree in financial engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris.
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In a career spanning over 16 years, Tuhina has made markets for institutional investors in several asset classes, set up derivatives trading desk for a private Indian bank from scratch and successfully led the implementation of Calypso for a bank treasury before becoming an active participant in the Singapore crypto space from 2015. Having graduated as a computer engineer from the prestigious BITS Pilani and then an MBA from the premier Indian Institute of Management, Tuhina, is the CEO and co-founder of Propine, backed by well-regarded institutional investors in Singapore.
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Neha Soni is an Indian entrepreneur, ex- IBMer and technology evangelist by heart. She is the chief executive officer of Corum8, a global blockchain, AI development and Growth marketing firm she founded in 2018. She was featured in Fox News, ABC, NBC, the times, digital journal and other news channels for developing next-generation marketing tools using AI and extraordinary revolution which she bought in the marketing industry. She is also covered in TED and Forbes for Data – AI-based growth marketing, sales, and enterprise blockchain development.
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Yama is a blockchain business specialists invented & contributed to 10+ the world first Blockchain tech and business achievement since 2015.
I and my team becomes your project liaising partner keep producing business and lead next growth of your business.
IBLT provides business development and project management backed by our unique experience coordinated more than 300 members come from more than 10 countries for blockchain project in Asia.
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Wayne oversees all of OSL’s activities, including trading and brokerage operations, product development and governance.
He has more than 15 years of experience in digital assets, investment banking, trading and finance.
Prior to joining OSL, Wayne held senior roles in major financial institutions, including as CEO of Octagon Strategy and Asia head of electronic trading coverage for Morgan Stanley.
Wayne is also an entrepreneur, co-founding Aspir, a diversified mineral processing technology and equipment supplier in Australia, which was acquired by the Weir Group in 2013.
He holds an MBA from the University of Southern Queensland, a Bachelor’s in Business Management from the University of Queensland and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Mr. Fan, Anthony Ren Da, aged 59, is the Chairman and Managing Director of AsiaLink Capital Limited. His expertise lies in the field of general management, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, company consolidation and restructuring. Prior to that, Mr. Fan held senior positions in a number of international financial institutions and was the managing director of a public company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mr. Fan has been the board member of over 30 companies since 1994. His experience covers listed companies, family businesses and non-profit organisations. Mr. Fan received his master degree of business administration from the United States of America.
Mr. Fan is and was an independent non-executive director of the following companies including UniPresident China Holdings Limited, Tenfu (Cayman) Holdings Company Limited, Hong Kong Resources
Holdings Company Limited, Raymond Industrial Limited, Semiconductor Manufacturing International
Corporation, China Dili Group, Shanghai Industrial Urban Development Group Limited, China Development
Bank International Investment Limited, Guodian Technology & Environment Group Corporation Limited,
Technovator International Limited, CGN New Energy Holdings Co., Ltd., CITIC Resources Holdings Limited,
Roly International Holdings Ltd and Shenzhen World Union Properties Consultancy Co., Ltd.
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On Yavin is a serial entrepreneur, lawyer, and angel investor. Over the years he has established and built several successful companies, and invested in and mentored many others. In 2017, he joined the blockchain industry with the founding of Cointelligence. Since then, through Cointelligence he has provided the industry with valuable research and education. At the start of 2021 he launched Cointelligence Fund, an early stage venture capital crypto fund focused on blockchain based games, where he serves as Managing Partner.
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A seasoned professional specialised in Asia digital assets, equities and derivatives trading & investment.
US CPA, CGMA, LSE Economics, HKU Master in Finance, Stanford Financial Engineering Master Program, Wharton EDP, Wharton Fellows Program
Specialties: Digital Asset, Hedge funds, Equities and derivatives trading, Auditing, Indexing.
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Kristi is a Partner in DLA Piper's Intellectual Property and Technology practice. She is an experienced FinTech lawyer and has been instrumental in developing Hong Kong's FinTech ecosystem. She advises clients on an array of matters including structuring, licensing and corporate governance. She also provides advice in respect to regulation and licensing requirements for digital assets, stablecoins, payments and alternative payments, developing equity crowdfunding platforms, robo advisory apps and the structuring, set-up and running of compliant crypto-exchanges.
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Hong Kong-based investment banker leveraging more than 10 years of corporate finance and strategic advisory experience, with a focus on cross-border situations in Asia.
Successfully advised shareholders, company boards and independent directors on numerous public and private transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, takeovers, privatisations and spin-offs.
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6x Founder
Building key digital infrastructure connecting Tradfi + DeFi.
Creator of the world's 1st Digital SPAC, 1st AMM/Liquidity pools for security tokens/digital securities and 1st Digital ESOP (DESOP).
He has spent my life starting businesses in new markets and new industries ranging from social media to real estate, as well as proptech and blockchain. Now focused on building key infrastructure needed to tokenize the $8T USD private markets.
Investor, Advisor and CRO (Chief Representative Officer) of InvestaX's Capital Markets License from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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A Fintech enthusiast, serial entrepreneur, and disruptive startup advisor with in-depth startup, regional experience in business development, technology, corporate finance, and investment.
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