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“ We connect buyers and sellers of financial investment products through its Digital Wealth Platform, bridging the financial supply chain.” Andrew Au, CEO The Leading Man of the Firm Andrew Au | CEO Andrew is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of AGDelta, a leading Asia B2B2C Fintech in the Digital Wealth space. The firm is proud to have built a platform that has seen over $1.5 Trillion in transactional turnover, across 15 countries and more importantly, has built the necessary regulatory controls and digital networks and AI tools to make these investments safer and relevant through his help. He supports this with a fantastic team in Hong Kong and Singapore 2 of the world’s key financial centers. He is making sure that the company is currently the only FinTech in Asia to win in the same year in Singapore (Q4-17) and Hong Kong (Q1-2018) both Govt and Regulator backed TOP FinTech awards as these smart cities lead the digital revolution in Asia. Since the mid-early ‘90s, he has worked for top-tier institutions spanning investment banking roles in key global financial centers at Bankers Trust, Macquarie Group and Deutsche Bank, and in the early 2000s with global financial tech giant SunGard which successfully LBO’d for a record USD 11.x billion. This gave me invaluable experience for Andrew Auto to follow my passion and launch AGDelta and its beta software during the Global Financial Crisis. During his tenure as CEO at AGDelta, he has been actively engaging retail and private banking institutions and independent asset managers globally in transforming their business by leveraging E-commerce and digital channel models and their relative network effect in creating new business models. AGDelta and Andrew Au played a key role in the formation of Asia’s first B2B connectivity platform for Structured Products (Contineo) with major international Tier1 global banks and in the process of launching several digital networks across the wealth-ecosystem. There will be more announcements in 2018 on key JV’s that will disrupt the digital banking and investment space. SR september 2019 35