Leadership Team

Jonathan Hou Pu Lin (“Jonathan Lin”), our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, is the Co-Founder, Partner and Chief Investment Officer at L2 Capital. Mr. Lin has over 18 years of investment experience across multiple geographies overseeing strategies from public to private investments. Mr. Lin served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Magnum Opus Acquisition Ltd, a blank check company that raised gross proceeds of $200 million in its initial public offering in March 2021 and was liquidated in February 2024. Mr. Lin is also a member of the advisory board for Oxley Bridge Capital, an advisory firm based in Singapore. Prior to co-founding L2 Capital in 2020, Mr. Lin served as a Portfolio Manager and a Managing Director at Point72, a $33 billion alternative investment firm, where he managed an equities portfolio and led a team of analysts and traders from 2016 to 2020. Prior to joining Point72, Mr. Lin worked at Och-Ziff Capital Management (now known as Sculptor Capital Management), a $32 billion multi-strategy investment firm, from 2011 to 2016, where he focused on merger arbitrage, event-driven, private equity and served as a non-executive director on multiple Och-Ziff portfolio companies. Prior to joining Och-Ziff Capital Management, Mr. Lin was with Madison Dearborn Partners, a $31 billion private equity firm, from 2008 to 2010, where he focused on TMT investments. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Lin was in the investment banking, mergers and acquisitions group, at Citigroup in New York. Mr. Lin received his bachelor of commerce from University of British Columbia.

Gary Kar Yin Chan (“Gary Chan”), our Chief Financial Officer, has over 25 years of experience in financial management, private and public equity investments, company and industry research. From 2023 to 2024, he was a Managing Director at Assured Asset Management, focusing on global consumer, fintech, artificial intelligence, robotics, Web 3.0, the Internet of Things, and other technology-related start-up investments. Previously, from 2019 to 2023, Mr. Chan was a founder member and Managing Partner of Atlas Investment Management, a startup private equity firm focusing on global mid-market buyouts. From 2010 to 2017, Mr. Chan was a Managing Director and the Head of Research at VMS Investment Group, covering both private and listed equities research. In his earlier professional years, Mr. Chan worked at Mirae Asset Global Investments from 2006 to 2009 as an Asia Pacific regional portfolio manager and the Head of Global Emerging Markets Research, and various senior analyst positions at Credit Suisse (2003–2006), Nomura (1998–2003), SocGen (1997), and Schroders (1997–1998). Mr. Chan was previously a Responsible Officer registered at Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. Mr. Chan received his bachelors of science in finance from Indiana University and his masters of science in financial markets from Illinois Institute of Technology.

Norma Ka Yin Chu (“Norma Chu”), who will serve as an independent director immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq, is Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairwoman of DDC Enterprises (Nasdaq: DDC), an online platform which distributes food recipes and culinary content, which she founded in 2012. Ms. Chu has served as a non-executive director of GOGOX (HKG: 2246) since March 2024. Prior to founding DDC Enterprises, Ms. Chu served as Head of Research of HSBC Private Bank in Hong Kong from July 2010 to May 2012. Ms. Chu is the Co-Founder of FoundersHK, which was founded in 2020, the President of Greater Bay Young Entrepreneurship Association and the Founder of Good Food Movement in 2018, a charity organization providing genuine inspiration about healthy food source. She is also a Board Member of YPO North Asia Regional and a Board Member of Hong Kong Shanghai Youth Association, as well as a Standing Director of Shanghai Hong Kong Association. Ms. Chu has also been elected as a member of the Technology and Innovation Subsector of the Election Committee of Hong Kong SAR for 2021. Ms. Chu received her BA in business and finance from University of Washington and attended Harvard Business School’s general management program.

Jaime Enrique Yuchengco Gonzalez (“Enrique Gonzalez”), who will serve as an independent director immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq, is currently the Chief Executive Officer of IP Ventures Inc., an investment company. He is also the founder of IPVG Corp (formerly PSE: IPVG; currently PSE: MG), Egames (PSE: EG), and IP-Converge, Inc. (Formerly PSE: CLOUD; currently PSE: HOUSE), which are all listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange. Mr. Gonzalez has served as a director at Arthaland Corporation (PSE: ALCO), a real estate company, since 2015. Mr. Gonzalez is also a member of the advisory board for Oxley Bridge Capital, an advisory firm based in Singapore. Mr. Gonzalez has spent the last two decades building internet, technology and telecom businesses in the Philippines. These include data center providers that services the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has also invested in on-shore and undersea fiber optic cable networks. He also was the principal shareholder behind Prolexic Technologies (which was acquired by Akamai for approximately $370 million in 2014). Latest ventures currently include Alliance Tower (joint venture with Tower Bersama of Indonesia for roll-out of common tower infrastructure in the Philippines) and F&B (Highlands Coffee franchise in the Philippines). He is also a General Partner and Limited Partner in two venture capital funds including Emissary Capital and Softbank Kaikaku Fund. Mr. Gonzalez received his degree in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College and his Owner President Management Program experience from Harvard Business School, and also a Certificate of Completion for the Global Leadership Creating Public Value in Times of Instability, Uncertainty, and Crisis Program from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Gan Wee Leong, who will serve as an independent director immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq, is currently founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oxley Bridge Capital, an advisory firm based in Singapore. Prior to Oxley Bridge Capital, from 2019 to 2024, Mr. Gan served as Head of ASEAN and CEO of China Renaissance (Singapore) Private Limited. Mr. Gan is a senior banker with more than 20 years of experience, across top investment banks such as Macquarie, Deutsche Bank, and Nomura HK/SG. Prior to joining China Renaissance, from 2014 to 2019, he was Head of Equity Sales Singapore & Thailand at Nomura Securities Singapore, where he also led the Singapore regional equities sales team. Mr. Gan was involved in several high-profile IPOs across various markets, including the listings of AIA & Shanghai Pharmaceuticals on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Alibaba on the New York Stock Exchange, and Hutchison Ports Holdings Trust on the Singapore Stock Exchange, and assisted in bringing cornerstone investors to anchor these deals. Before his investment banking career, Mr. Gan worked as a product engineer at Fisher Controls in Singapore, a subsidiary of Emerson Electric (a Fortune 500 company), where he was seconded to its head office in the United States on Economic Development Board’s (EDB) sponsorship. Mr. Leong received his bachelors in mechanical engineering from Nanyang Technological University.

Jack Cho, who will serve as an independent director immediately upon the commencement of trading of our securities on Nasdaq, has spent his entire career at US and European investment banks. He is currently a Director, Asia Mergers & Acquisitions, Global Corporate Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a position he has held since 2019. Mr. Cho has over 18 years of investment banking experience originating and executing M&A transactions across Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, from 2006 to 2019, Mr. Cho served as a Director of Investment Banking at Rothschild & Co. where he advised large multinationals as well as private and state-owned enterprises across the region on a number of high profile and transformative cross border M&A, capital raising, as well as joint venture formation transactions. Mr. Cho also has extensive experience in public market M&A transactions having been involved in a number of Takeover Code transactions in Hong Kong, as well as significant public market transactions in the UK and Europe. Mr. Cho received his bachelors of science in finance and accounting from New York University.