Executive Officers

Francis Chi Yin Ng, 39
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Director

Francis Chi Yin Ng. Mr. Ng has served as our Co-Chief Executive Officer since December 3, 2024 and as a member of the board of directors since December 19, 2024. Mr. Ng has over 17 years of fixed income/credit investment experience in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Mainland China, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has invested over $1 billion of debt and equity capital over different types of transaction such as property investment, development project, pre-IPO investment, bridge loan, mezzanine debt and distressed asset, non-performing loan, and asset portfolio acquisition. Since 2018, Mr. Ng has served as the Chief Investment Officer at Pacific Aegis Capital Management Group (PACM), a global real estate private credit investment management firm specialize in distressed real assets investments in developed markets. Prior to founding PACM, Mr. Ng served as the Asia Credit Opportunities Fund Portfolio Manager at an international hedge fund, Vice President and Deputy Portfolio Manager at Tianli Financial Holdings from 2016 to 2018, Vice President at Softbank Investment (SBI) from 2014 to 2016, Assistant Vice President at Syz Asset Management from 2012 to 2014, Associate at JPMorgan Asset Management from 2011 to 2012, and Associate with Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies Division at UBS AG Hong Kong. Mr. Ng obtained his Master of Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong and his Bachelor of Business Administration in Airport Management and Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics from the University of North Dakota in the United States. He is currently a 3rd year doctoral student of the Doctor of Business Administration programme at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is expected to graduate in 2026. Mr. Ng is a Fellow Certified Management Accountant, a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Accountants, and a Fellow of the Institute of Public Accountants. Mr. Ng was the President and Chief Financial Officer of Black Spade Acquisition Co from March 2021 to August 2023 when it merged with Vinfast, a leading Vietnamese automaker and the first Vietnamese business to list in the U.S. by way of a $23 billion business combination, which now trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol “VFS.” As Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Ng oversaw the preparation of periodic financial reports of Black Spade Acquisition Co, which raised approximately $170 million in its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

Chibo Tang, 39
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Director Nominee

Chibo Tang has served as our Co-Chief Executive Officer since December 3, 2024 and has agreed to serve as a member of the board of directors following the completion of this offering. Mr. Tang has served as a Managing Partner of Gobi Partners, a leading early-stage venture capital firm in Asia with $1.6 billion AUM since July 2012. Mr. Tang is a well-recognized tech investor in the region, featured in the June 2023 cover edition of Tatler Hong Kong, and named to Tatler Asia’s Most Influential List in 2021 and 2023, China LP Club’s Top 20 Most Influential GP of the Year 2023, and Global Corporate Venturing Top 10 Emerging Leader in 2020 to name a few. Mr. Tang joined Gobi in 2009 and has been investing in tech startups for over 15 years. He now leads Gobi’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) practice based out of Hong Kong and manages multiple funds in the region. To date, he has invested over $200 million in numerous portfolio companies, which include unicorns such as global payments and financial platform Airwallex, blockchain gaming and NFT giant Animoca Brands, leading autonomous driving company AutoX, financial technology company and virtual bank Welab, and global e-commerce and digital supply chain platform Xingyun Group. Prior to Gobi, Mr. Tang started his career at Monitor Group as a management consultant based in China where he worked on various projects across the APAC region including in the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and the Middle East. He also spent time at The Bosch Group as Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy in Asia Pacific, where he worked on business and strategy development for the company in China. Mr. Tang received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College and received his Master of Business Administration in Finance from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Mr. Tang has been featured and quoted by leading financial media including Forbes, Bloomberg, Financial Times, New York Times, CNBC, South China Morning Post, DealStreetAsia, Asia Venture Capital Journal, and Hong Kong Economic Journal, amongst many others. He is also a regular columnist contributor for Capital Magazine in Hong Kong, writing on the latest investment trends in the region.

Menghan Zhang, 38
Chief Financial Officer, President, Director Nominee

Menghan “Henry” Zhang has served as our Chief Financial Officer and President since December 19, 2024, and has agreed to serve as a member of the board of directors following the completion of this offering. Since May 2021, Mr. Zhang has served as is the President and Managing Partner of Hermitage Capital, a tech focused global private equity firm with over $1 billion AUM. Mr. Zhang was named Forbes China’s “Venture Capital 100” in 2023, Forbes China’s “Top 100 Most Influential Chinese Elites” in 2023 and “36 under 36 Investors” by 36Kr. Mr. Zhang led Hermitage Capital’s investments into global technology leaders, including large language model companies, autonomous driving solution provider Horizon Robotics, AI smart manufacturing provider SmartMore, AI drug discovery company XTalPi, LiDAR provider Seyond, computational storage solution provider ScaleFlux, solid-state EV battery provider Factorial Energy, Web3 DeFi company ConsenSys, distributed SQL database provider PingCAP, etc. Prior to Hermitage Capital, Mr. Zhang spent 11 years as an investment banker, holding various senior positions including Executive Director and Head of China Enterprise Technology Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan from December 2018 to February 2021, Vice President and Operating Officer at China Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley from August 2014 to December 2018, and Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Investment Banking Department at UBS from July 2010 to July 2014. During his investment banking career, Mr. Zhang has completed over 60 deals with combined transaction value of over $60 billion. Mr. Zhang attended Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School. He has completed Executive Leadership Development Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Zhang received his Bachelor of Business Management (major in Finance) and Bachelor of Science in Economics from Singapore Management University with Magna Cum Laude. Mr. Zhang has been featured and quoted by leading financial media including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters and South China Morning Post. He is also a frequent speaker at global conferences including Future Investment Initiative (FII), Harvard College China Forum, Hong Kong Stock Exchange Future Tech Summit, Arab-China Business Conference as well as leading universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Shanghai Jiao Tong University on topics related to technology investment.

Tok Li, 39
Chief Legal Officer

Tok Li. Mr. Li has served as our Chief Legal Officer since December 19, 2024. Since November 2022, Mr. Li has served as the Head of Legal and Managing Director at PACM and is responsible for the legal affairs of the Group. Prior to joining PACM, Mr. Li was a counsel between May 2022 to October 2022, Senior Managing Associate between May 2019 to April 2022, Managing Associate from May 2016 to April 2019, and Associate from February 2015 to May 2016 at international law firm Bird & Bird. During his seven-plus years at Bird & Bird, he was involved in a broad range of corporate finance work including initial public offerings and public company takeovers. After an IPO or takeover, he continued to advise clients on secondary debt and equity issues, Listing Rules compliance, corporate governance, and regulatory investigations. Mr. Li was qualified as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 2009 and in England and Wales in 2012. Prior to Bird & Bird, he was an associate at international law firm King & Wood Mallesons from October 2009 to January 2015. Throughout his career, he also advised clients on a number of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, and on various equity or debt financing transactions. Mr. Li obtained his Bachelor of Laws and PCLL at The University of Hong Kong in 2006 and 2007 respectively.

Chun Kit Chu, 40
Chief Marketing Officer

Chun Kit Chu, who has served as our Chief Marketing Officer since December 19, 2024, has more than 15 years’ experience in private equity and portfolio management in Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region), Mainland China, Singapore and United States. He has served as a Managing Director at Hermitage Capital since May 2022 and has been involved in private equity transactions over $100 million in deep technology space such as artificial intelligence, electric vehicle and semiconductor. Before joining Hermitage Capital, Mr. Chu was responsible in managing over $500 million of portfolio constituted by different asset class such as equity, fixed income, currency, commodity and alternative investment in his previous capacity such as Director at UBS Securities (China) between April 2020 and April 2022 and Investment Consultant at J.P.Morgan Chase Private Bank between September 2011 and December 2013. Prior to UBS, Mr. Chu served as analyst at the prime brokerage department at Merrill Lynch between September 2009 and September 2011 where he was responsible for covering a range of equity finance products across Asia market and working closely with lending team to develop synthetic and securities lending offering for hedge fund clients. Besides working in globally renowned financial institutions, Mr. Chu was the co-founder of Movieseek Media where he was responsible of leading the fund raising, finance and accounting team between January 2014 and December 2019. Mr. Chu obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Economics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a certified Financial Risk Manager.

Tsz Chiu Guan, 36
Chief Operating Officer

Tsz Chiu Guan, who has served as our Chief Operating Officer since December 19, 2024, has more than 9 years of experience in equity and credit investment in Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, the United States and Mainland China. He has invested over $100 million of capital across different asset classes such as private equity, venture capital and private credit. Some of the portfolio companies include unicorn companies such as Lalamove, a global leading logistics platform, and Keep, a leading fitness platform in China. He has served as the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy and Risk Officer at PACM since 2018. Prior to PACM, Mr. Guan first started his career at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Hong Kong and has worked on various functions including financial due diligence, financial auditing and anti-money laundering for over five years between 2011 to 2017. He then served as Vice President of Investec’s principal investment team between 2017 to 2018. Mr. Guan obtained his Bachelor of Accounting and Business Administration from Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Board of Directors

Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, 42
Director Nominee

Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, who will serve on our board of directors following the completion of this offering has a track record of excellence in the fields of aviation, transportation, and energy. He started his career as an airline pilot before gaining executive positions in air carriers and, while serving as the French Minister of Transports, focused on developing sustainable aviation fuels. Mr. Djebbari previously served as a member of the French Parliament from June 2017 to September 2019. In 2019, he was appointed to the French government, served as Secretary of State for Transport from September 2019 to July 2020, and as Minister for Transport from July 2020 to May 2022. As Minister of Transports, he focused on the modernization of the rail system, decarbonization of the automotive and aviation sectors, and the development of satellite capability for transport, and he created the Advanced research agency for Transport (Agence d’innovation dans les Transports) to work on breakthrough technologies in the fields of mobility and logistics.After politics, Mr. Djebbari served as the executive Chairman of Hopium, a French start-up that develops hydrogen fuel-cell systems and vehicles, where he restructured the company’s strategy, developed plans for industrialization, optimized the company’s workforce, and developed key partnerships, from June 2022 through March 2023. Since February 2023, Mr. Djebbari has served as Managing Partner of Magellim Group’s infrastructure business, a fund dedicated to the financing of infrastructures in the fields of green energy, decarbonized mobility, and resource preservation.Mr. Djebbari also serves on the boards of several companies in the aerospace sector, including E-SPACE (since June 2023) and Look Up Space (advisory board member since June 2023), and advises several companies and funds with a focus on industrialization and international development. He has also invested in start-ups in the field of mobility. Mr. Djebbari graduated from Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civileand Ecole Polytechnique. He was also an auditor of the Institute of Advanced Studies of national defense from 2022 to 2023 and is Air Force colonel of the French army reserve.

Rebecca Fannin, 70
Director Nominee

Rebecca Fannin, who will serve on our board of directors following the completion of this offering, is an international business journalist, author, and media entrepreneur. In 2010, Ms. Fannin founded Silicon Dragon Ventures, an online media and events group focused on startups and venture capital which she still leads today. Ms. Fannin has also served as a special contributor to CNBC, covering disruptive technology since January 2013.Ms. Fannin’s four books – Silicon Heartland, Silicon Dragon, Startup Asia, and Tech Titans of China – have been translated in 10 languages and favorably reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, among others. Ms. Fannin has been represented by Leading Authorities since May 2010 and has presented at Brookings, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, and Oxford, among others, and appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box, BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg. As an international editor at Red Herring (March 1999 to February 2021) and AVCJ (March 2001 to December 2009) in, and as a columnist for Forbes from February 2010 to December 2019, Ms. Fannin followed the venture capital trail from Silicon Valley to Asia’s emerging markets and reported about the region’s entrepreneurial boom from Southeast Asia to India and Greater China. Ms. Fannin has covered many innovative global businesses and interviewed several visionary leaders for influential publications including Harvard Business Review. Ms. Fannin resides in New York City, where she is a member of the Overseas Press Club, and an adviser at a university-affiliated venture group.

Y. Shirley Meng, 48
Director Nominee

Dr. Y. Shirley Meng, who will serve on our board of directors following the completion of this offering, has served as the Liew Family Professor of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago since January 2022. In connection with her professorship at the University of Chicago, Dr. Meng is the principal investigator of the research group – Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), through which several startup companies have formed and spun out, including South 8 Technologies (established in 2017, focusing on LiGasÒ electrolytes for safety and performance), UNIGRID Battery (established in 2020, focusing on high energy safe sodium batteries), and ExPost Technologies (established in 2022, focusing on PRIMEÒ direct recycling of lithium-ion batteries). She is the author and co-author of more than 320 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapters and over 20 issued and pending patents. Dr. Meng is a world leader in materials science for energy storage. Among her contributions are discoveries of novel electrolyte/electrode materials and solid-state superionic conductors for both lithium and sodium batteries. Dr. Meng pioneered the use of cryogenic microscopy for battery materials and invented a few characterization tools such as titration gas chromatography (TGC) for quantifying “dead” lithium batteries, which significantly enhances the safety of lithium metal battery. Her work has transformed the ways we can design and manipulate energy storage materials for batteries. Dr. Meng is a Fellow of Electrochemical Society (FECS), Fellow of Materials Research Society (FMRS) and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She has served as the Chief Scientist for Energy Storage Science at Argonne National Laboratory and director of the Energy Storage Research Alliance since January 2022. Dr. Meng is also the director of Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), an innovation hub funded in 2024 by US Department of Energy, Office of Science. Dr. Meng served in various professorship roles at the University of California San Diego between November 2009 and January 2021 and serves as a scientific advisory board member for several startups and public companies, including Advano, Ensurge Micropower, SES and Shell.