Calvin Ng

Mr. Ng serves as our Chief Advisor member of our Board of Directors. He has strong global experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, board member and fund manager across both private and public markets. Mr. Ng is a co-founder of Aura Group, a Pan-Asian financial services business with operations in Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and Philippines, with focuses on funds management, wealth management and investment banking and manages and advises over one billion Singapore Dollars in assets. He was previously the Responsible Manager for Aura Capital Pty. Ltd.’s Australian Financial Services License (from May 2010 through August 2017). Mr. Ng currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer (from November 2021) and director (from September 2020) of Aura Group Singapore Pte. Ltd., an affiliate of Aura Group, which holds a Capital Markets Services License, regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In addition, Mr. Ng currently has numerous board roles within the Aura Group of entities. Mr. Ng is also co-founder of the Finsure Holding Pty. Ltd. (“Finsure”), one of Australia’s largest mortgage aggregation groups, which has been recognized as one of Australia’s fastest growing companies by BRW magazine for four consecutive years over 2015-2018. Mr. Ng served as the Head of Strategy of Finsure Group Pty. Ltd. from January 2011 through September 2018. As of December 2021, Finsure has approximately 8% market share of residential mortgage originations in Australia. In 2018, Finsure completed a reverse merger with APRA regulated authorized deposit taking institution Goldfields Money Limited and formed a fully operational Australian bank known as BNK Banking Corporation Limited (ASX:BBC). In February 2022, BNK Banking Corporation Limited sold Finsure for approximately $151,600,000 in cash to MA Financial Limited (ASX:MAF). Mr. Ng has been a director of BNK Banking Corporation Limited since July 2021. Mr. Ng served as director of iBuyNew Group Limited (ASX:IBN) between February 2013 through September 2019, and Catapult Group International Limited (ASX:CAT) between November 2013 through November 2019, a director of Bullion Asset Management Services Pte. Ltd. since May 2020 through January 31, 2022, a commodities blockchain tokenization platform, and SB Moneyball Holdings Pty. Ltd. (from February 2015 through February 2022). In addition to his positions at Aura Group, Mr. Ng is currently a Non-Executive Director of various companies some of which include: (i) Integrated Portfolio Solutions Pty. Ltd. (since December 2017), a wealth management platform administering more than 9 billion Australian Dollars in assets. (ii) Institchu Holdings Pty. Ltd. (since December 2017), Institchu Pty. Ltd. (Since December 2017), and Institchu Pte. Ltd. (since June 2021), Australia’s largest online custom tailor. Prior to establishing Aura, Mr. Ng worked at Everest Babcock & Brown in 2007 and 2008, one of Australia’s largest absolute return investment managers. He was part of the Direct Investment Team of Everest Babcock & Brown focusing on high yield debt, listed equities and private equity investments in Australia, Europe and the USA.