Management Team
Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Hongtao Shi has served as our director and Chairman since January 2019 and Chief Executive Officer since February 2019, and the chief executive officers of our operating subsidiaries since their inceptions in October 2018. Mr. Shi has more than ten years of managerial and operational experience in the financial services industry. Previously, Mr. Shi served as the chief executive officer of Prestige Financial Holdings Group Limited, a financial service holding company in China, since its inception in 2004. Mr. Shi also served as a director in charge of securities analysis at Pacific United Inc., a provider of professional proposition services in the United States from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Shi received his bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Towson University in Maryland in 1999. Mr. Shi studied at Harvard Business School (“HBS”) from 2018 to 2019 and graduated from HBS’s Senior Leadership Program in August 2019.
Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Ngat Wong has served as our Chief Financial Officer since April 2020, and as Chief Operating Officer since February 2019. Mr. Wong had worked with our affiliate, Prestige Financial Holding Group from 2015 to January 2019 as a managing partner focusing on its development. From 2007 to 2015, Mr. Wong served as an associate director of the investment banking division at CLSA Capital Markets Limited, a securities and investment group in Hong Kong, where his practice fields covered equity financings, debt offerings, pre-IPO investments, private placements and M&A advisory. Prior to that, Mr. Wong worked at Goldman Sachs (Asia) as a business analyst in the investment banking division from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Wong received his bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from The University of British Columbia in 2006 and his master’s degree in Business Administration from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2017.