Key Executive
Chanpeng Zhao - who is called CZ in the crypto community is the founder and CEO of Binance. CZ’s interest in trading started right after college by working at a tech company involved in developing trading systems for Tokyo Stock Exchange. In 2005, he co-founded Fusion Systems Ltd, a company that specializes in ultra-low-latency trading systems for brokers. CZ left Fusion System to work full time in the blockchain industry in 2013. He has worked in trading and blockchain firms. Then, he founded a new venture OKCoin and led as CTO of the company. Later, he founded Bijie Tech, a company that provides cloud-based exchange systems to exchange operators. Since the launch of Binance ICO, CZ focussed completely on Binance.
Team Behind the Project
Roger Wang - He was the CTO of Binance. He was also with Bijie Tech, responsible for building up technical teams, designing the high-level architecture of the exchange, and clearing systems and running ops teams to ensure the security and stability of exchange systems.
James Hofbauer - Chief Architect of Binance, he was the co-founder and the Chief Architect of BijieTech. Before BijieTech, James was working with Palantir, a Silicon Valley company that focuses on big data analysis. James was also worked with Fusion Systems.
Allan - Product Director of Binance, he was one of the co-founders of BijieTech. He was also the Product Director of BijieTech. Allan has good experience in product design, user experience and trading.
Sunny Li - Operations Director of Binance. He was a co-founder and the operations director at BijieTech. Before Binance, he has led 20+ exchange systems projects and provided comprehensive consulting for strategy, operations, risk control and system development.
Key Advisors & Investors
Matthew Roszak - Bloq co-founder. Tally Capital Founding Partner
Roger Ver - Angel investors in many blockchain businesses. CEO of bitcoin.com
Ron Cao - MD of Sky9 Capital Institutional investor in BTCChina
Chandler Guo - Angel Investor in blockchain businesses in China
He Yi - CMO of Yixia Technology. Previously Co-founder at OKCoin
Yang Linke - Co-founder of BTCChina. ICOCoin Founder
Jun Du - Co-founder of Huobi. Angel investor
