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Ru Chiang is the CTO of Candy Shop. He began his career directly in the cryptocurrency industry, and has created solutions for various areas, including cryptocurrency exchanges, custodians, and web3 native applications. He oversaw the development of the custody product at Hex Trust, a licensed Hong Kong digital asset custodian, and helped to build the exchange/internal custody product at Crypto.com. He was also a participant of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park incubation program, where he developed a platform for sharing community goods to reduce food waste. Before founding Candy Shop, he headed a team that built an NFT fractionalization product, which won first place in the Serum and Wormhole hackathon.
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Simon Law
Simon Law is the VP, Operation Lead at Crypto.com and has worked at Citibank, CLSA, CCB International and other companies. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a master's degree in finance from the University of Hong Kong.
Alex Yu
Alex Yu is the Executive Vice President and Chief Architect of Crypto.com and previously worked at JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and other companies. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong.
Ethan Tong
Ethan Tong is the founder and CEO of KnightSafe, co-founder and chief investment officer of Aspen Digital, and partner of EVG.
Yilan Huang
Yilan Huang is head of global development at CyberConnect and previously worked at Bertelsmann and WWF.
Chao Deng
As one of the earliest investors in blockchain and cryptocurrencies in Asia, Deng Chao (DC) has more than ten years of experience in FinTech asset management. He previously served as a Senior Manager at Bosera Asset Management, China Wanxiang Holding, and DataYes, and was an early founding member of Wanxiang Blockchain Labs. DC holds a Master's Degree from the University of Hong Kong.
Ricardo Da Ros
Ricardo Da Ros is the CEO of Patex. He was ex-Head of Brazil at Binance & Crypto.com.
Ray Chan
Ray Chan is the Co-founder & CEO at 9GAG. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong.
Tsz Chung
Chung Tsz Chung is an Investment Director at ArkStream Capital. Prior to joining ArkStream, Chung worked at Allianz Investment Management in Germany and African Export-Import Bank in Egypt. Chung holds an MBA from Lagos Business School (first non-African student in the cohort), M.Sc from Norwegian School of Economics and a B.Sc from The University of Hong Kong. Chung spent two years living in Africa (Sudan, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria) as he strongly believes in the power of web3 technologies in transforming the developing world.
Ryan Silva
Ryan Silva is the Head of Trading at BlockTower Capital. Previously, he was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Celsius, where he led global CeFi Trading and Market Insights teams. Before entering the digital asset space, Ryan was a Portfolio Manager at KLS Diversified, a multi-billion-dollar global macro and fixed income relative value hedge fund in NYC. Ryan has extensive experience in traditional capital markets, having worked at RBS Greenwich Capital and Merrill Lynch & Co. Ryan is a CFA Charterholder, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and is an advocate for empowering people with disabilities to participate in athletics.
Rafael Melo
Rafael Melo is the Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer of Crypto.com. He has 15 years of experience in finance and a deep understanding of risk, compliance, and the Mobile Payments ecosystem in Asia. As CFO at ASX-listed Ensogo, he led fundraising efforts, securing strategic investment from VIPSHOP (NYSE:VIPS) and raising over A$50m from blue chip institutions such as Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock.