Hongtao Shi

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.