Yat Siu
Yat Siu | |
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| Born | 1973 |
| Occupation | entrepreneur |
Yat Siu (* 1973 in Vienna) is a Hong Kong based entrepreneur and angel investor who was born and raised in Vienna, Austria. He is the CEO and Founder of the game-company Outblaze and co-founder of Animoca and has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies in Hong Kong.[1] He has received several awards including the DHL SCMP Business Awards [2] and has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow as well as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of the advisory board of BAFTA [3] and a director of the Asian Youth Orchestra.
In 2009 he sold a part of his business to IBM's Lotus Software Division [4] which opened its first cloud computing laboratory in Hong Kong [5] with the assets it acquired from Outblaze.
References
- ^ https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/03/01/outblaze-sets-hong-kong-start-up-scene-on-fire/
- ^ http://www.hkbusinessawards.com/winner-archive/2009
- ^ http://www.bafta.org/press/bafta-to-host-first-ever-events-in-hong-kong,303,SNS.html
- ^ https://www.gartner.com/doc/861112
- ^ http://www1.investhk.gov.hk/success-stories/ibm-opens-hong-kongs-first-cloud-computing-lab/
External links
- Interview with Yat Siu on Bloomberg video
- Forbes article on Outblaze and Yat Siu
- Asiaweek article by Yat Siu; Swift & Total
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