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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Cédric Lion

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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Evan Auyang

President

Evan Auyang is Group President at Animoca Brands, a blockchain technology and investment company focused on digital property rights, tokenisation, and AI-driven consumer and institutional ventures, with an investment portfolio of more than 600 companies. In this role he oversees general management across the group and represents the company publicly on Web3 strategy, regulatory developments, and market positioning, including the company's growing focus on the United States following shifts in the US regulatory environment. He also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Sun Hung Kai & Co. Ltd. and Asia Financial Holdings Limited, and as a Board Director of the Innovation City Authority of Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE.

Beyond Animoca Brands, Auyang chairs Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong public policy think tank, and serves on the board of Voyage, a poverty and youth-focused nonprofit. He holds advisory roles at Our Hong Kong Foundation, the Web3 Development Task Force's Subcommittee on Ecosystem and Infrastructure, the Hong Kong Council of Social Service's Development Fund Committee, and Brown University's Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Prior to joining Animoca Brands, he was Managing Director and Head of GLG International, where he ran the expert insight platform's operations across 15 locations spanning Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific. Before that, he served as Deputy Managing Director of Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd. and as a board director of its parent, Transport International Holdings Limited. Earlier in his career he was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company and worked in Citigroup's Derivatives Structuring and Marketing unit. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from Brown University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

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