Neo Technology Acquisition Corporation
MANAGEMENT & BOARD
Executive Officers
Yajing Li, 40
President, Chairwoman of the Board and Executive Director
Ms. Yajing Li has been a director of real estate investment at Guohua Life Insurance Co., Ltd., an insurance company based in China since 2010, in charge of the asset management department. Prior to that, Ms. Li worked as a director in charge of accounting at Shanghai Linli Planning and Architectural Design Co., Ltd. from 2008 to 2009, a director in charge of accounting at Newsky (Canada) International Consulting Co., Ltd. from 2007 to 2008, and a financial manager at Shanghai Lige Power Engineering Co., Ltd. from 2006 to 2007. Ms. Li received her Bachelor’s degree in finance and economics from School of South-Central University for Nationalities in China and her Master’s degree in Management from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
Leslie Chow, 38
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Leslie Chow has extensive experience as a financial advisor and has been engaged in such profession for over 14 years. Mr. Chow specializes in helping companies based in China and the Asia Pacific region to publicly list in US, Hong Kong and Australia equity markets as well as providing financial consulting services. He has served as an independent director of Ace Global Business Acquisition Limited, a Nasdaq-listed blank check company since November 2020. He has been the co-founder ZHEN, a blockchain app for art authentication since July 2020. Since August 2019, Mr. Chow has served as the chief financial officer of Phase Scientific International Limited, a biotech company, and his responsibilities include planning, implementing, managing and operating all financial-related activities of the company, including accounting, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, investor and public relationships, and private and institutional financing functions. Mr. Chow served as the chief financial officer of Takung Art Co., Ltd. (NYSE: TKAT), an online e-commerce platform for offering, selling and trading whole pieces of artwork, from February 2016 to February 2019, where he was responsible for planning, implementing, managing and operating all financial-related activities of the company. From November 26, 2018 to August 2019, Mr. Leslie Chow served as the chief executive officer of TKAT, where he was in charge of company’s daily operation, including the deployment of blockchain technology in the application of artworks online transactions. From September 2015 to April 2016, Mr. Chow was an independent non-executive director of PPS International (Holdings) Limited (a company that specializes in environmental cleanings, horticultural greening, property management and security and intelligent robots, and is listed on GEM of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange). From April 2009 to August 2015, he was a partner at Albeck Financial Services where he managed the Asia-Pacific office focusing on companies that want to be publicly listed and also offering financial consultation in merger and acquisitions transactions, valuation of financial instruments, financial statements, cross-border equity and GAAP. From 2005-2009, he was a senior auditor at Deloitte & Touche LLP where he facilitated multinational audit engagements in internal control procedures and reporting. He graduated from University of California Santa Barbara with a Bachelor’s in Business Economics with an emphasis in Accounting in 2005. He has also obtained his CPA license and passed the CFA level 2 examination.
Yanyi Tang, 37
Chief Financial Officer
Ms. Tang also has a wealth of experience in accounting and providing financing advisory services for public and private companies. Since December 2010, Ms. Tang has been serving as a project manager of Shanghai Jiaan Certified Public Accountants, where she provides consulting services to companies’ auditing projects. Prior to that, from January 2007 to November 2010, Ms. Tang was an assistant manager of KPMG Huazhen accounting firm, where she led multiple auditing projects of operating entities of multinational companies in China, such as General Motors and Siemens. Furthermore, she also has significant experience in conducting audit work of IPO companies under PRC GAAP, IFRS, and US GAAP requirements.
Board of Directors
Robert L. Angell, 60
Independent Director Nominee
Dr. Angell is an expert in healthcare AI, predictive analytics, temporal medicine, and data science. Since May 2019, he is the principal and founder of Applied Data Sciences, LLC, a data science company, and CoMorbus, a public health provider. Dr. Angell was a data scientist at the division of cardiovascular genetics in University of Utah, where he provided support to all data science activities from 2014 to 2018. Dr. Angell was an adjunct faculty at Salt Lake Community College from 2009 to 2014, where he taught computer science related courses. From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Angell served as the chief technical officer at RoamZone Security Systems, LLC, a security technology company and as a data scientist and technical advisor at IBM from 1998 to 2008. Dr. Angell received her Ph.D. degree in biomedical informatics and Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from University of Utah.
Jing Zhang, 42
Independent Director Nominee
Ms. Zhang has been a finance director of dotAI Smart Technology Ltd (Shanghai) since February 2020. From February 2013 to December 2019, she served as the finance director of Shanghai Xunyang Network Technology Ltd., an e-commerce company. From September 1997 to December 2012, she served as the finance manager of Jiangsu Ziguang Smart Technology Ltd, a technology company. Ms. Zhang received her Bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1997 from Zaozhuang University.
Min Zhu, 41
Independent Director Nominee
Mr. Min Zhu has been the general manager of Tianjin Longying Pictures Co. Ltd since October 2016. From September 2008 to September 2016, he served as a district manager of Maersk Logistics Investment Ltd. From October 2004 to September 2008, he served as a shipping manager of Shanghai Leya International Freight Agency Co. Ltd. Mr. Zhu received his Bachelor’s degree in system engineering from Shanghai Institute of Technology in 2002.
Ronggang Zhang, 60
Independent Director Nominee
Mr. Zhang has served as an independent director of SOS Limited (NYSE: SOS) since May 2020. He currently is the chief executive officer of 5CGroup International Asset Management Co., Ltd. and strategic development consultant of SG & CO PRC Lawyers, positions he has held since 2015. Mr. Zhang has served as master’s supervisor of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and visiting professor of Zhejiang NDRC Training Center since 2015. Mr. Zhang previously served as the Department Chief of Commercial Bureau of HEDA between 2003 and 2015 and as Chief of Investment Bureau of Ningbo Free Trade Zone between 2000 and 2003. Mr. Zhang received his Bachelor’s degree from Hubei University in 1987, and Visiting Scholar to University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1996.
