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“Our way of
developing
meaningful digital
solutions designed to
democratize access
to financial services.”
Hubert Shio-Hsien Tai
CEO & Co-founder
Greet the CEO
Hubert Shio-Hsien Tai, CEO
& Co-founder
Hubert is a seasoned executive
with over 20 years of professional
experience in scaling internet-
based ventures into successful
companies across markets in Asia
and the US. A true believer in
using internet/mobile technology
and big data to create solutions
that deliver affordable credit to
underbanked societies, Hubert
co-founded Oriente to bring greater
financial inclusion to Southeast
Asia’s fastest-growing economies. As
CEO, he leads all teams and efforts
focused on business expansion,
operations, marketing and product
development. Before this, Hubert
was a founding member of LU.com
where he also served as COO and
CTO between 2011 and 2016. At
LU.com he led overall platform
development and grew the
business from a P2P platform to
become the biggest online wealth
management platform in China.
Under his leadership, the customer-
base grew to over 20 million with
USD 40 billion in assets under
management. As of the last round
of funding in 2016, LU.com had a
valuation of USD 18.5 billion. From
2006 to 2011, Hubert served as
the CTO of dangdang.com, leading
the technology and logistics
operation. Here he was responsible
for transforming the company to
become China’s first profitable B2C
e-commerce company. He managed
their listing on the NYSE on 8
December 2010 at an IPO valuation
of USD 2.3 billion. Earlier, at the
start of his highly successful career,
he held senior technical positions
at Accenture, eBay.com, and Oracle
in the US, and with Yahoo! in Hong
Kong. He was among the first 100
employees at eBay.com. Being part
of the first wave of internet pioneers
since 1998, he has been passionate
about revolutionizing business using
cutting-edge technology. Hubert
has a Bachelor of Science degree
in Electrical Engineering from the
California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) and a Master’s of Science
degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Southern
California.
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