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Mr. H. C. Wang has served as our chief financial officer since February 2021 and as our director since August 2022. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Wang served as chief financial officer at Youxin Financial from 2018 to 2020, where he led the start-up effort and subsequent spin-off of uSmart Securities. From 2016 to 2017, Mr. Wang worked at Uber China as co-head of Corporate Development Division, then at Didi Chuxing after it acquired Uber China. Prior to that, Mr. Wang worked for Goldman Sachs from 2012 to 2016 and from 2006 to 2009. Mr. Wang received two bachelor's degrees in mathematics and biological & environmental engineering from Cornell University in 2005, and his juris doctorate degree from New York University School of Law in 2012.

Mr. Anquan Wang is our founder and has served as our chief executive officer since the inception of our company. Prior to founding our company, Mr. Wang served as the general manager of finance business of Beijing Xiaomi Pay Technology Co., Ltd. from January 2015 to March 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Wang held several positions at Alibaba Group and Ant Group from March 2006 to February 2012, including platform development architect of software technology department at Alisoft, platform and technology manager of Alibaba research at Alisoft, senior technology manager of innovative financial services department at Ant Financial Services, director of Taobao loan division at Alibaba Financial, and assistant to general manager of innovative financial services department at Ant Group. Mr. Wang received his bachelor's degree in computer science and technology in 2005 and his master's degree in software engineering in 2009, both from Hunan University.

Mr. Walter Bishop began service as our independent director in June 2025. He has decades of expertise in regulatory compliance, independent financial audits, and corporate governance. Since November 2025, he has served as chief financial officer for QDRO Acquisition Corp (Nasdaq: QADR), a special purpose acquisition company, and since November 2023, he has served as lead independent director and audit committee chairman of Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTX), a custom optics and photonics manufacturer whose board he joined following its merger with OmniLit Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company on which he was director from April 2023 to November 2023. Mr. Bishop served from April 2019 to December 2024 as a director and audit committee chairman of Highline Management Inc., an alternative asset management company. In 2021, he served as a senior advisor to Thunder Bridge Capital Acquisition II, which merged with Indie Semiconductor (Nasdaq: INDI). From 1997 to 2019, Mr. Bishop held multiple U.S. regional management positions at Deutsche Bank (NYSE: DB), including chief operating officer for Deutsche Bank's U.S. bank, chairman of the board and audit committee for DB Trust Company Delaware, board member and branch manager for DB Cayman Islands Branch, and head of governance for capital management and stress testing. From 1995 to 1997, he was chief administrative officer for Barclays Bank U.S., he was deputy general manager and chief financial officer for Nordbanken U.S. from 1990 to 1995, and was an audit manager for KPMG Peat Marwick from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Bishop received a Master of Business Administration from St. John's University and his bachelor's in public accounting from CUNY Baruch College.

Mr. Anthony Denier has served as our president since January 2024 and as our director since August 2022. Mr. Denier has also served as chief executive officer of Webull Financial since June 2017. Mr. Denier has over 20 years of experience in management, compliance and operations of U.S. and international equity, derivative and fixed income market products. From 2013 to 2017, as chief executive officer and chief compliance officer of LXM USA LLP, Mr. Denier supervised the day-to-day operations of the firm and served as the point person for all audits, both financial and compliance in scope. Mr. Denier also served as head of European equity sales and trading division at Jones Trading from 2012 to 2013. Prior to that, he held positions in several financial services companies, including ING Financial Markets, Numis Securities, Execution, LLC, Kaupthing Securities and Credit Suisse from 2000 to 2012. Mr. Denier received his bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University in 2000.

Mr. Benjamin James has served as our general counsel since June 2021 and as our director since August 2022. Prior to joining our company, Mr. James was a partner in the Hong Kong office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, where he started working as an associate in September 2011 and then as a partner from October 2013. While at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP, he primarily focused on general corporate and securities law matters. From September 2007 to September 2011, Mr. James was an associate at several international law firms, including the Hong Kong offices of Latham & Watkins LLP and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and the Dallas, Texas office of Vinson & Elkins LLP. He has been a member of the Texas Bar since November 2007. Mr. James received his bachelor's degree in international studies from Brigham Young University in 2004 and his juris doctorate degree from Columbia University School of Law in 2007.

Mr. William Houlihan began service as our independent director upon consummation of the Business Combination. He has more than 40 years of diversified financial sector and business experience. Mr. Houlihan has served since 2013 as a director and audit committee chairman of Lument Finance Trust (NYSE: LFT), a mortgage REIT. He has served since 2009 as a director and financial expert on the audit committee of Avem Health Partners, previously known as First Physicians Capital Group, a healthcare investment company, which was publicly traded prior to completion of a going-private transaction in January 2015, from April 2013 to September 2014 as non-executive chairman of its board of directors and since May 2013 as the chairman of its audit committee. He previously served as a member of the board of directors of Angel Pond Holdings Corporation, a blank check company, from May 2021 to December 2022, and as the chief financial officer for a number of blank check companies, namely Thunder Bridge Acquisition Ltd. from June 2018 to July 2019, Thunder Bridge Acquisition II, Ltd. from August 2019 to June 2021, Thunder Bridge Capital Partners III Inc. from February 2021 to December 2023, of Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV Inc. from July 2021 until December 2024. Mr. Houlihan also served from November 2012 to June 2023 as a director and audit committee chairman for MAXEX, LLC, a privately-owned residential mortgage loan trading business. Mr. Houlihan received a master's degree in business administration in finance from New York University Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in accounting from Manhattan College. He was licensed as a certified public accountant, but his license is currently inactive. From January 2017 to December 2021, he served as an adjunct professor at the Feliciano School of Business at Montclair State University.