Executive Officers

Jin Su, 51
Chief Executive Officer, Director, and Chairman

Mr. Su has more than 30 years of experience in management in the investment and banking industries. Since October 2021, Mr. Su has served as the manager at Dongguan Jiujiu Consulting Co., Ltd., a consulting firm. Since June 2019, he has served as the managing director in the China office of Deep Tech Group, a member of our sponsor. Deep Tech Group is a holding company intended to hold equity stakes across a number of operating entities in the technology and financial services industry. Since June 2015, Mr. Su has served as the supervisor of Shenzhen Jingujia New Life Industry Co., Ltd., a company engaged in the cosmetics business. From June 2018 to April 2022, Mr. Su served as the vice president of Beijing Ninth Eternity Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd, an investment management firm associated with Ninth Eternity Ventures, another member of our sponsor. From December 2014 to December 2018, he served as the assistant president of Qianhai sub-branch of Shenzhen Branch of Guangdong Huaxing Bank. From July 2003 to December 2014, Mr. Su served as the head of the customer department of the Wenjin and Longhua sub-branches of Shenzhen Branch of China Everbright Bank. From July 1993 to July 2002, he served as head of the second corporate business department of the Luohu and Huanggang sub-branches of Shenzhen Branch of China Merchants Bank. Mr. Su obtained a master’s degree in Project Management in 2013 from University of Greenwich.

Youqiang Ke, 42
Chief Financial Officer and Director

Mr. Ke has more than fifteen years’ experience in management in the investment and banking industries. Since October 2021, Mr. Ke has served as the supervisor of Dongguan Jiujiu Consulting Co., Ltd., a consulting firm. Since August 2019, he has served as the Risk Management Director of Shenzhen Imperial Asset Management Co., Ltd., a company engaged in investment management. Since May 2019, Mr. Ke has served as the managing director of the China office of Deep Tech Group. Since June 2018, he has served as the supervisor of Ninth Eternity Ventures. From August 2019 to June 2022, Mr. Ke served as the supervisor of Shenzhen Ninth Eternity Network Technology Co., Ltd., a science and technology company associated with Deep Tech Group. From June 2018 to April 2022, he served as the supervisor of Beijing Ninth Eternity Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd. From February 2017 to July 2018, Mr. Ke served as the head of the corporate customer department of Qianhai branch of JZ Securities Co., Ltd, a securities firm associated with JD Capital and licensed by the China Securities Regulatory Commission. From July 2015 to December 2016, he served as the assistant to the president at the Nanshan sub-branch of Shenzhen Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China. From February 2014 to May 2015, Mr. Ke served as the senior business manager at the Shenzhen Branch of China Resources Bank. From February 2008 to January 2014, he served as the business executive at the Longhua sub-branch of Shenzhen Branch of China Everbright Bank. From November 2006 to January 2008, Mr. Ke served as account manager at the Funan sub-branch of Shenzhen Branch of China CITIC Bank. From June 2004 to October 2006, he served as the manager of the Taipei Road branch of Wuhan Baijuyi Real Estate Management Consulting Co., Ltd. Mr. Ke obtained a postgraduate diploma in Corporate Finance and Investment Management from the University of Hong Kong China Business School in 2018.

Board of Directors

Thomas Keith Todd, 70
Independent Director Nominee

Mr. Todd has agreed to join us as an independent director upon the effectiveness of this prospectus. Mr. Todd has 40 years of experiences in global technology business including not only publicly listed and large multi-nationals but start-up businesses. Since April 2018, Mr. Todd has served as the chief executive officer and executive chairman of the board of directors at KRM22 plc (LON: KRM), a technology and software investment company, with a particular focus on risk management in capital markets. From September 2002 to March 2017, Mr. Todd served as the executive chairman of FFastFill plc (LON:FFA), a provider of SaaS to the global derivatives community, which was acquired by Ion Group in 2013. From April 2013 to March 2017, Mr. Todd served as the executive chairman of Agency Trading at Ion Group, a global technology software company providing automation software solutions for electronic trading. He is currently non-executive chairman of Blighter Surveillance, a private radar business. From 2005 to 2017, Mr. Todd was the non-executive chairman of Amino Technologies plc (LON:AFRNA), a provider of digital TV entertainment and cloud solutions to network operators. He also served as the non-executive chairman of UK Broadband Stakeholder Group (a UK Government advisory board) from January 2001 to January 2004 and Easynet plc, a broadband network company from March 2002 to January 2006. He was the chief executive officer of ICL plc, a global IT company from January 1995 to July 2000 and served as the chief financial officer of ICL plc from July 1987 to January 1995. In 2004, Mr. Todd was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen of England for his services to the UK Telecommunication’s industry and having a prominent role at national level. From July 1975 to June 1987, Mr. Todd held several financial positions within the Marconi Company Limited, a defense contractor, including the position of the group chief financial officer from January 1986 to June 1987. Mr. Todd is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, or FCMA.

David Rich, 54
Independent Director Nominee

Mr. Rich has agreed to join us as an independent director upon the effectiveness of this prospectus. Mr. Rich has over 20 years of experience managing prominent business portfolios, optimizing operations and cultivating cohesive teams as well as data analysis. Mr. Rich has managed a number of multimillion dollar portfolios at various hedge funds and investment companies including Amida Special Opportunity Investments LLC, a private lending and investment company in New York, since September, 2013, Amida Capital Management, a relative value hedge fund in New York, from January 2007 to December 2015, Marathon Asset Management, a hedge fund in New York, from April 2001 to March 2005 and Tribeca Investments (Citigroup) in New York, from April 1999 to April 2001. From August 1997 to April 1999, Mr. Rich served as a credit portfolio manager of General Electric Capital Corporation in Stamford, Connecticut. From September 1993 to July 1995, Mr. Rich served as a credit analyst of Valley National Bank in Wayne, New Jersey. Mr. Rich received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Tufts University in 1991 and an MBA degree from Columbia University in 1997.

Michael Pascutti, 55
Independent Director Nominee

Mr. Pascutti has agreed to join us as an independent director upon the effectiveness of this prospectus. Dr. Pascutti has more than 20 years of portfolio management experience in credit, equity and derivatives. Since 2015, Dr. Pascutti has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University teaching courses in finance. From January 2011 to January 2015, he was the former CEO/CIO of Eagle River Asset Management (“Eagle River”) investing in corporate actions such as mergers and through credit securities. Prior to Eagle River, Dr. Pascutti was a founding partner and Head of Relative Value at Sandelman Partners from February 2005 to March 2009, where he managed a team of investment professionals and was responsible for the firm’s multibillion relative value portfolio as well as its overall size, leverage, credit, risk exposures, and strategies including distressed, merger arbitrage and event-driven equity, convertible arbitrage and capital structure arbitrage strategies. During his stay as Managing Director in Credit and Head of US Convertible at Citadel Investment Group from March 2000 to February 2005, Dr. Pascutti headed the firm’s multibillion convertible bond portfolio and ran the multi-strategy credit and equity portfolio. In addition, Dr. Pascutti was a director and senior portfolio manager at Tribeca Investment Group from March 1998 to March 2000, and Portfolio Manager at CS First Boston from June 1995 to March 1998. Dr. Pascutti earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1996. While at Harvard University, he was a teaching fellow for courses in Corporate Finance, Statistics, Money and Banking and Quantitative Finance.