Mr Evan Auyang is the Group President of Animoca Brands, a Hong Kong-based multinational blockchain technology and investment company focused on developing the digital property rights ecosystem, including play-to-earn games, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain marketplaces, infrastructure and more.

Mr Auyang is also the Chairman of the Board of Civic Exchange, a non-partisan public policy think tank. He serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on two boards: Sun Hung Kai & Co. Ltd. and Asia Financial Holdings Limited. He is an Advisor for Our Hong Kong Foundation, and serves on the Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the Subcommittee on Ecosystem and Infrastructure of the Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development, the Development Fund Committee of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, the Advisory Council for Institute at Brown for Environment and Society for Brown University, as well as the Board of Advisors of Hong Kong 2050 is Now. In addition, Mr Auyang is a lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy of Politics and Public Policy.

Prior to joining Animoca Brands, Mr Auyang was the Managing Director and Head of GLG International (Gerson Lehrman Group), a technology-enabled expert insight platform where he ran and grew its business spanning Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific across 15 locations. Before GLG, Mr Auyang was the Deputy Managing Director of the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd. (“KMB”) and a board director of Transport International Holdings Limited, the parent company of KMB. Prior to joining Transport International and KMB, Mr Auyang was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company. Before that, Mr Auyang worked at Citigroup’s Derivatives Structuring and Marketing unit.

He obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from Brown University and his MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management.

Synopsis

Future of Tokenized Money and RWAs

Tokenized money and Real World Assets (RWAs) are changing how we use and invest in traditional monetary assets besides digitally native assets like Bitcoin. By turning these into digital tokens, they become easier to buy, sell, and share globally. For example, tokenized real estate lets people buy small parts of a building, and tokenized stablecoins make sending money across countries faster and cheaper, 24x7.

This plenary will explain what tokenized money and tokenization mean, and show how these are considered the next frontier of fintech. It will also focus on Hong Kong’s growing role in this new financial world as it steps further into web3 and the digital assets world.