Board of Directors

Joseph Chee
Joseph Chee
Member, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President

Mr. Chee has served as the Executive Chairman of our board of directors since September 2025. He has been a Founder and Chairman of Summer Capital Limited since August 2017. Summer Capital is an investment company dedicated to investing in early growth state companies in “new economy” sectors such as fintech, blockchain infrastructure and application, consumption technology and healthcare. He has also served as the Vice Chairman of AMINA Bank AG, a company focused on providing a bridge between traditional finance and digital assets while operating as a FINMA-regulated cryptocurrency bank and offering services such as secure custody, crypto trading, staking, lending, asset management and tokenized products to professional investors, corporations, family offices and institutions globally, since April 2020. In addition, Mr. Chee is the founder of Summer Healthcare Fund, L.P. since February 2021 and Summer Everest Ecosystem Fund, L.P. since September 2023. Each are investment companies focused on healthcare and biotechnology and blockchain ecosystem and financial technology, respectively. Prior to these positions, Mr. Chee was Head of Investment Banking and Head of Global Capital Markets, Asia at UBS AG. From 2000 to 2017, Mr. Chee held a number of positions in UBS AG. Mr. Chee has earned a Doctorate degree in applied finance from the University of Geneva, an Executive Master of Business Administration degree Tsinghua University, a Master of Business Administration degree from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Cosmo Jiang
Cosmo Jiang
Director, Board of Directors

Cosmo Jiang is a General Partner at Pantera Capital, where he leads the firm’s Digital Asset Treasury investment practice. He brings more than a decade of experience spanning digital assets, hedge funds, and private equity, with a track record of building and managing investment strategies across both traditional and emerging markets. Before joining Pantera, he was Managing Partner at Nova River, a digital asset fund, and previously served as Managing Director at Hitchwood Capital. His earlier career includes roles at Apollo Global Management and Evercore, and he holds a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.

Blane Walter
Blane Walter
Member, Board of Directors

Mr. Walter is a partner at Talisman Capital Partners, a private investment partnership located in Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Walter was the founder of inChord Communications, Inc, which he built into the largest independently owned, healthcare communications company in the world. In 2005, inChord was acquired by Ventiv Health, the largest provider of outsourced sales and clinical services serving the pharmaceutical industry to create inVentiv Health. In 2008, Mr. Walter became chief executive officer of the combined public company.

Through organic growth and more than 20 acquisitions, inVentiv Health became the leading provider of outsourced product development and commercialization services to the global pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. inVentiv’s client roster consists of more than 350 leading pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences, and healthcare payer companies. In 2010, Mr. Walter led the successful $1.2 billion buyout of inVentiv Health by Thomas H. Lee Partners. Mr. Walter presently serves as vice chairman of inVentiv Health and also serves as chairman of the Governor of Ohio’s Executive Workforce Board.

Before joining inChord, Mr. Walter worked as a financial analyst in New York City for Smith Barney in a mergers and acquisitions specialty group. Mr. Walter actively pursues and oversees investments in healthcare, information technology, and marketing/professional services.

Mr. Walter graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and Finance from Boston College.

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Edward M. Straw
Edward M. Straw
Member, Board of Directors

Mr. Straw is the founder and managing partner of Osprey Venture Partners—a firm that finds investment capital and assists with business development for startup entrepreneurs. He is the retired president, Global Operations of The Estee Lauder Companies, and currently sits on the boards of the following companies: Academy Securities, Boston Consulting Group Federal, Odyssey Logistics, Solana Company, and Lenitiv Scientific. He is the chairman of Odyssey Logistics.

During his 10 years as chairman of Odyssey, he has overseen the valuation of the company grow from $40M to $1.5B.

As president, Global Operations for Estee Lauder, Mr. Straw led Lauder’s research and development, package engineering, acquisition, manufacturing, distribution, inventory management, and information systems organizations that supported 20 Estee Lauder Companies around the world. In his 5 years at Estee Lauder, he is credited with directing significant improvements in their global supply chain and driving major stock price, impacting savings to the bottom line.

Before joining the Estee Lauder Companies, he was senior vice president, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management at the $40 billion Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston. Before joining Compaq in late 1998, Mr. Straw was president of Miami-based Ryder Integrated Logistics— then the leading provider of third-party supply chain services in North America.

Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Michel Lee
Michel Lee
Member, Board of Directors

Michel Lee, has been a co-founder and investment partner at Cybertech Partners since October 2018, and co-founder at Hashkey Group Limited (HKEX: 3887.HK) since January 2019. Mr. Lee is a capital market and investment professional with over 25 years of experience in various senior leadership roles in one of the largest global investment banks in Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo and London. Mr. Lee has helped various companies to complete strategic transactions including early funding rounds, initial public offerings, structured financings, derivatives, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Lee holds a master’s degree in Advanced Information Technology from Imperial College London, and a bachelor’s degree in Physics, Electronics & Computing from University College London.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Sergio Mello
Sergio Mello
Member, Board of Directors

Sergio Mello, has served as the global head of stablecoin solutions at Anchorage Digital, where he focuses on the business development and platform offerings for stablecoins, since January 2026 and previously served as its head of stablecoins. Prior to joining Anchorage Digital, Mr. Mello served as the founder and chief executive officer of Lago Finance, a consortium of financial institutions designed to enhance settlements with tokenized cash, from April 2022 to November 2023. Mr. Mello is a serial entrepreneur who has achieved exits in web1, web2, and web3. He has also served an advisor to Nodle, a digital trust network, from October 2017 to May 2022 and as a crypto advisor to Reddit, an online open community platform, from January 2021 to December 2021.

Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee