Michael Titus
Senior Legal Counsel at First Digital
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Michael Titus is currently a practicing solicitor in Hong Kong and the principal of Titus Solicitors, a Hong Kong law firm specializing in corporate, commercial and intellectual property law. Prior to establishing Titus, Michael practiced in Singapore and specialized in Merger & Acquisitions and cross-border private equity. At Titus, Michael works with token issuers, exchanges, wallet providers and payment providers, and other companies working on distributed ledger technology, providing them with legal advice on money transmission and securities laws, AML regulations and other applicable regulations. Born and educated in the United States, Michael received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Lehigh University and his Juris Doctor degree from the City University of Hong Kong.
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Aleck Lee
Aleck is the CFO of First Digital Trust. Apart from leading its finance team based in different jurisdictions to overview all of the Group's financial and accounting activities, Aleck is also involved in FDT’s fundraising and restructuring. Prior to joining FDT, Aleck was the Asia CFO of a Sweden-listed private equity group with dental prosthetics manufacturing arms in Mainland China and Southeast Asia. He gained unprecedented experience delivering crisis management solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aleck was a British Chevening Scholar and obtained his MSc in Economics and Strategy from Imperial College London. Upon his graduation, he worked in Big4 and accumulated experience in M&A, value creation and audit before working in-house since 2019. Aleck is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accoutants (HKICPA). He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Australian National University and Imperial College London.
Pierre Laurent
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Alex Wang
Alex Wang is the vice president of research at Futureverse, and he also previously worked at Altered State Machine. He graduated from the City University of Hong Kong and holds a Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Idaho and a PhD in statistics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Yvonne YE
Yvonne YE is the CMO of Bi.social. She graduated from City University of Hong Kong and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Vince Lam
Vince Lam is the head of operations at Meex and was previously the head of operations at HKbitEX. He holds a bachelor's degree in finance from City University of Hong Kong.
Flex Yang
Flex Yang is the co-founder and former CEO of Babel Finance. He graduated from the City University of Hong Kong with a major in Accounting and Law.
Conor McNamee
Conor McNamee is Head of product at Vertex Protocol and previously served as business development and Operations manager at Eterna Capital. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the City University of Hong Kong.
Karen Tang
Karen has over 10 years of strategic communications experience, spanning financial, corporate and crisis communications across various industries but predominantly in the technology arena. She started her career with FTI Consulting, advising clients in the disruptive technology sector, from start-ups through to FTSE 250 listed companies in London. She has extensive experience in helping clients with strategy development and implementation, M&A and IPO comms, corporate brand building and positioning, as well as leading media campaigns. Since moving to Hong Kong from London in 2016 she has worked with some of the world’s most well-known communications agencies, as well as in-house for various firms in the technology space, eventually transitioning to advising crypto and Fintech companies including exchanges and digital assets custodians. Karen is currently with First Digital, a qualified custodian and licensed trust company as Head of Communications and Strategic Partnerships. Her role encompasses devising a communications strategy to help elevate brand awareness, building core key messages and company narrative to help position First Digital as a trusted, fintech in an evolving space. In addition to this, she is responsible for overseeing and managing all business development, partnership communication & workflows in Asia. She is a big advocate of women in web3 and is part of many women led projects and networks in the space.
Sam Fok
Sam Fok is the co-founder and COO of HKVAX, having previously worked at Coinsuper as head of Legal and compliance, and has also worked at jpmorgan Chase and Citibank. He graduated from University of London, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Richard Yuen
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