Jerry Wang is founder and CEO of Haitou Global, a leading online global asset allocation platform, in 2014 in New York. Previously as Investment Manager at University of Notre Dame’s Investments Office, Jerry managed a portfolio of over $1billion global investments.
Jerry holds Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Tsinghua University, as well as Master’s Degree in Engineering and Business Administration from University of Notre Dame. Jerry is CFA and CAIA charter holder.
The guest is a Wall Street pioneer and “the world’s most influential actuary”. He played a pivotal role and made breakthrough contributions to a financial model which influences the whole Wall Street for a decade. In recent years, he is leading the challenge in the blockchain and working with major financial intuitions.
Shengchao Yu is a senior technologist with Symbiont, an NYC based startup that offers the market-leading smart contract platform for institutional applications of blockchain technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey at New Brunswick. He is currently a core backend engineer for Symbiont’s blockchain-based solution for Private Equity. Prior to that he served as a core engineer for Symbiont’s blockchain platform. Before he joined Symbiont, he had about 9-year experience in the financial service industry, taking on senior positions with Bloomberg LP and UBS AG etc. His last role before embracing the blockchain technology is to develop high-frequency ETF arbitrage trading strategies for Credit Suisse. He also gave talks on the blockchain and DLT (distributed ledger technology) at multiple conferences in China in the past year.