Mr. Xuedong (Tony) Tian is our Chief Financial Officer and a member of our Board. Mr. Tian has served as a managing director and head of capital markets at US Tiger Securities, Inc. since October 2020. He has also served as the CEO of Feutune Light Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: FLFV), a SPAC listed on Nasdaq, since March 2022, and a director since June 2022. He has also served as CFO and director of Inkstone SPAC. From May 2012 to October 2020, Mr. Tian was the founder and president of Weitian Group LLC, a corporate advisory and investor relations firm. Prior to that, Mr. Tian served as a sell-side equity analyst at various investment banks, including managing director covering China at Merriman Capital, Inc. from June 2013 to January 2016; executive director and lead analyst covering China Industrials and IT outsourcing at Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. from May 2011 to May 2012; vice president and lead China analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. from May 2010 to April 2011; senior associate covering Networking, Hardware & IT Supply Chain at Ticonderoga Securities LLC from October 2009 to May 2010; and associate covering Semiconductor & Semiconductor Capital Equipment at Pacific Crest Securities LLC (now part of KeyBanc) from April 2008 to September 2009. Mr. Tian holds an MBA degree from New York University, a M.A. degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut and M.S. and B.S. degrees in Land Resources and Management from China Agricultural University. Mr. Tian is a CFA charter holder and currently holds Series 7, 24, 63, and 79 licenses.
We believe that Mr. Tian qualifies as our director because of his experience in capital market.
Dr. Hanzhong (Han) Li is a member of our Board. Dr. Li has more than two decades of investment, operational and management experience in biotechnology industry. Since February 2019, Dr. Li has served as the senior vice president for Corporate Development at Eureka Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody-TCR T-Cell therapies for oncology treatment based in California. In this role, Dr. Li is responsible for a variety of initiatives on finance, corporate and business development for the company. Before joining Eureka, Dr. Li spent two years as the chief financial officer at Ascentage Pharma Group. Between 2010 and 2017, Dr. Li served as deputy director in the strategy and portfolio management group at Bayer Pharmaceuticals (FWB: BAYN), a German pharmaceutical company. Earlier in his career, Dr. Li served as an equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley, Suntrust Robinson Humphrey and Stanford Financial Group in New York, covering biotech and biopharmaceutical companies for the period between 2002 and 2009. He also worked as a research scientist at Genentech, Inc., where he served as lead inventor of three patents on novel cytokines. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from the Boston University School of Medicine and MBA from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. Dr. Li is a director nominee of Inkstone SPAC.
We believe that Dr. Li qualifies as our director because of his operational and management experience in the biotech industry.
Dr. Teng-Wei Chen is a member of our Board. Dr. Chen is an active start-up and early-stage investor in Southern Taiwan. Dr. Chen has served as managing director at You-Ci Management Consulting Co., Ltd., an investment company based in Pingtung, Taiwan, since 2015. Since 2018, Dr. Chen has been a director of New-shine Biomedical Co., Ltd., a Taiwanese biotechnology company of which he was also an investor. In 2019, he founded iDentist Business Space Co., Ltd., a provider of coworking and shared conferencing space provider in Pingtung, Taiwan. In 2021, Dr. Chen founded You-Cheng Internet Information Co., Ltd., an IT solution company based in Pingtung, and has served as its Chairman and CEO since then. As a dentist by training, Dr. Chen has been the chief dentist and manager of Sunshine Dental Clinic, in Pingtung, Taiwan since September 2015. From August 2012 to March 2014, Dr. Chen was a visiting dental specialist at Tainan Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan. Dr. Chen finished his residency at National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan, in July 2012, where he was a resident dentist for six years. Dr. Chen received his D.D.S. in Dentistry from China Medical University, Taiwan, in 2006. Dr. Li is a director nominee of Inkstone SPAC.
We believe that Dr. Chen qualifies as our director because of his background in founding, managing and investing in start-up companies.
Mr. Kevin Vassily is a member of our Board. Mr Vassily is a member of the board of directors of Denali Capital Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DECA) since April 2022, and Feutune Light Acquisition Corp. (Nasaq: FLFV) since June 2022, two SPACs listed on Nasdaq. In January 2021, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer, and in March 2021, became a member of the board of directors of iPower Inc. (Nasdaq: IPW), an online hydroponic equipment retailer and supplier. Prior to joining iPower, from 2019 to January 2021, Mr. Vassily served as Vice President of Market Development for Facteus, Inc., a financial analytics company focused on the Asset Management industry. From March