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Analyst
Cédric Lion is an Analyst at Animoca Brands, where he supports projects seeking to apply blockchain technology. He works to translate nascent ideas into concrete solutions within the Web3 space.
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President
Yat Siu is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Animoca Brands, a blockchain and gaming company dedicated to establishing digital property rights for virtual assets. He also serves as a member of the Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development established by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, a position he has held since July 2023. At Animoca Brands, he has led the company's strategic direction into NFTs, blockchain gaming, and the open metaverse, overseeing an investment portfolio that has grown to more than 300 Web3 and crypto start-ups. He serves on the BAFTA advisory board and on the board of directors of the Asian Youth Orchestra, and is a director at the Dalton Foundation, the sponsoring body of the Dalton School Hong Kong.
Born in Vienna, Austria in 1973, Siu began his career at Atari Germany before moving to Hong Kong in 1996, where he founded Cybercity, later renamed Freenation, described as Asia's first free web page and email provider. In 1998 he founded Outblaze, which developed multilingual white-label web services and grew to serve over 75 million end-users. In April 2009, Outblaze's messaging assets were sold to IBM, which used them to open its first cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong. Siu subsequently transformed Outblaze into an incubator for digital entertainment projects, from which Animoca Brands emerged. He studied at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, with training in cello, flute, and piano. He has received the Standard Chartered Platinum Achievers Award, the URENCO Innovation Award, and was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow.
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