Block Tree Leadership Team
Block Tree is led by a distinguished cadre of senior management, board directors, and advisors, each a vanguard in their respective fields. Our team unites deep expertise in capital markets, profound insights from government sectors, and a proven track record in scaling disruptive technology enterprises. This rich tapestry of experience ensures Block Tree not only upholds the highest standards of honesty and integrity but also pioneers a compliant and innovative financial ecosystem. With a foundation built on cross-disciplinary leadership, Block Tree is uniquely positioned to drive transformation and excellence in the digital finance landscape, ensuring robust growth and long-term sustainability.
Henry Chong
Chief Executive Officer
Henry is a Member of the Fusang Exchange's Exchange Committee, and is the Chairman of its Listing Committee.
Henry works closely with global institutional investors and financial regulators to bring professionalism and structure to the industry, and is a regular keynote speaker on the subject of digital assets. He is also a member of the University of Oxford’s Digital Assets Project at the Commercial Law Centre.
Henry is a Board Director of Portcullis: The Asian Wealth Manager. Portcullis is Asia's biggest independent group of trust companies, and provides a one-stop shop for corporate, trustee and fund administration services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, philanthropies, private banks, and investment managers.
Henry holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics & Economics, and a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. Henry holds a Masters of Science in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he wrote his thesis on the behaviour of family offices. He also holds a Diploma in Information Technology, that he completed at the age of 12, and a Certificate in Chinese Language & Literature from Peking University.
Henry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Follow Henry at: henrychong.com and on Linkedin
Leadership Team
David Chong
Chairman
David Chong
Chairman
David is the Founder and President of the Portcullis Group. He has been described by the Singapore Academy of Law as “the Guru of Asian Family Offices".
Portcullis is one of the largest independent trust, fund and family office service providers in Asia with a history of over 35 years. It has a wide range of professional expertise in running wealth management companies. Its international network in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Labuan, Johor Bahru, the BVI, Samoa, the Cook Islands, the Cayman Islands and Seychelles gives it the ability to provide comprehensive services across multiple jurisdictions.
Portcullis Investment Office Limited holds Type 4 (Advising on Securities) & Type 9 (Fund Management) licences issued by the Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong; and Portcullis Investment Office Private Limited holds a Capital Markets Services Licence for Accredited & Institutional Investors issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
David is also President of Portcullis Group’s subsidiaries: SSTC Ltd (one of the oldest independent trust company in Labuan); Baxian Trust (Labuan) Limited; and Baxian Private & Investment Bank Ltd, all of which are regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority.
David is the Executive Chairman of Fusang Corp: the first fully-regulated platform in Asia providing end-to-end infrastructure to support Digital Securities. Fusang Exchange Ltd, a subsidiary of Fusang Corp, is licensed in Labuan, Malaysia as a Securities Exchange under Part IX, Section 134 of the Labuan Financial Services and Securities Act 2010 (LFSSA). Fusang Exchange is the first fully-operational stock exchange in Asia that allows companies to go public through a digital IPO accessible by both retail and sophisticated investors globally, supporting the trading of both digital securities and cryptocurrencies. David is approved by the Minister of Finance, Malaysia as a member of its Exchange Committee.
David is the former President of the Singapore Trustees Association (STA). He served as the Founding President of Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP) Singapore Branch, and was the Founding President of the Singapore Fund Administrators Association (SFAA). He also sits on the Investment Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law.
He is a Fellow of Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford, where he sits on the Board of Regents. David also sits on the Advisory Board for Wealth Management at Singapore Management University. In appreciation for his dedicated service to education, the Singapore Ministry of Education presented David with a Service to Education Award.
David is the Managing Director of David Chong Law Corporation, Singapore, and is qualified as a Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn; Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore; Malaya and Brunei; Barrister & Solicitor, British Virgin Islands; Solicitor, New South Wales and Queensland, Australia; Barrister & Solicitor, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, Australia.
David has a Master’s Degree in Law from National University of Singapore and a Master’s Degree in Business from City University, London.
Henry Chong
Chief Executive Officer
Henry Chong
Chief Executive Officer
Henry is a Member of the Fusang Exchange's Exchange Committee, and is the Chairman of its Listing Committee.
Henry works closely with global institutional investors and financial regulators to bring professionalism and structure to the industry, and is a regular keynote speaker on the subject of digital assets. He is also a member of the University of Oxford’s Digital Assets Project at the Commercial Law Centre.
Henry is a Board Director of Portcullis: The Asian Wealth Manager. Portcullis is Asia's biggest independent group of trust companies, and provides a one-stop shop for corporate, trustee and fund administration services to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, philanthropies, private banks, and investment managers.
Henry holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics & Economics, and a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. Henry holds a Masters of Science in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he wrote his thesis on the behaviour of family offices. He also holds a Diploma in Information Technology, that he completed at the age of 12, and a Certificate in Chinese Language & Literature from Peking University.
Henry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Follow Henry at: henrychong.com and on Linkedin
Kevin Ho
Chief Operating Officer
Kevin Ho
Chief Operating Officer
Kevin Ho is the Chief Operating Officer of Fusang.
As a lead for blockchain and digital/crypto asset initiatives, Kevin plays a pivotal role in transforming Fusang into a leading digital asset platform and promulgating its industry recognition. In addition to advising and strategising overall corporate development, he leads business development, collaborative partnership, execution and capital financing/investing activities.
Previously, Kevin headed up the direct investment practice of a prestigious Asian family office with over US$15 billion worth of assets across multi-business and investment areas; and managed US$100 million AUM at Strategic Capital Management, one of Hong Kong's earliest independent hedge fund managers. Over the last decade, he has successfully brought investee companies to IPO and achieved spectacular investment returns. Kevin sharpened his skillsets in investing and business management through direct responsibility for equity/bond/PE/VC investments and cross-border M&As, after being apprenticed to a finance professional at KPMG and EY in his early years.
Kevin subsequently put his entrepreneurial ideas into practice as a principal co-founder at Alliance Capital Group, a licensed financial firm that sponsors IPOs, advises listed company transactions and manages third-party money; and as a team member of Galaxy Treasure Financial Group, a wealth management firm formed through an exclusive strategic partnership with China's top-notched online financial group.
Kevin earned Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science) at Australia’s Monash University; and Master of Business Administration at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a fellow member of CPA Australia and a charter holder of CFA.
Lim Shuh Miin
Chief Technology Officer
Lim Shuh Miin
Chief Technology Officer
Shuh Miin is the Chief Technology Officer of Fusang – the central technology unit of the greater Portcullis Group – and leads the engineering organisation behind the Block Tree platform and Fusang Exchange, including the self-custodial wallet infrastructure and the in-house engine powering the exchange Block Tree connects you to. He brings close to three decades in technology and over two decades of engineering leadership in regulated financial institutions and global enterprises, most recently as Group Chief Technology Officer at Bjak, the Southeast Asian insurtech, and before that as Executive Vice President and Head of Applications at Bursa Malaysia, the national stock exchange, where he led its first migration to public cloud. He is known for turning regulatory and operational complexity into resilient infrastructure that simply works.
Board of Advisors
Benjamin Quinlan
Board Advisor
Benjamin Quinlan
Board Advisor
Benjamin Quinlan is the CEO and Managing Partner of Quinlan & Associates. He is the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and currently Chairs the Innovation & Technology Committee Australian Chamber of Commerce.
Benjamin is an Adjunct Professor at the AIT School of Management, a Conference Ambassador for the Hong Kong Tourism Board, sits on the Advisory Committee for Hong Kong Science and Technology Park’s Technology Validation Initiative, is a member of the Asian Financial Forum Steering Committee for the Hong Kong Trade and Development Council, and sits on the Finance & Treasury Committee at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. He is also the Chairman of krip and Divit, a Board Advisor at Fusang, a Senior Advisor at a number of leading startups, a Mentor for PingAn’s Cloud Accelerator, a Guest Contributor for eFinancial Careers and Regulation Asia, and has been recognised as one Asia’s leading FinTech influencers.
Benjamin has an extensive track record advising many of the world’s leading multinational companies, financial services organisations, SMEs, and start-ups on a variety of high-profile strategic engagements. He is quoted extensively in the global financial press and is frequently interviewed by leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, TIME, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Reuters. He is also a regular keynote speaker at leading financial services industry conferences across the world.
Prior to founding Quinlan & Associates, Benjamin was the Head of Strategy for Deutsche Bank AG’s Equities business in Asia Pacific and its Investment Bank in Greater China, and sat on a number of the bank’s global and regional executive committees. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Benjamin worked as a Management Consultant at Oliver Wyman in the firm’s Corporate & Institutional Banking practice and was widely regarded as one of Oliver Wyman’s global subject matter experts in investment banking and capital markets.
Before joining Oliver Wyman, Benjamin worked at UBS AG in the bank’s Asia Pacific Client Coverage and Group Strategy departments. He began his career in M&A and Capital Markets Advisory at PwC in Sydney.
Benjamin holds a Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a First-Class Honours Degree in Economics (on scholarship) from Macquarie University, Sydney.
Deniz Güven
Board Advisor
Deniz Güven
Board Advisor
Deniz is an internationally recognised leader in the banking and fintech industries bringing new digital banking experiences globally. He built a licensed bank in Hong Kong on an entire smart contract structure.
Mox Bank is one of the first smart contract-based and fully cloud-native banks globally. Before founding Mox Bank, he worked for Standard Chartered Group in Singapore and Hong Kong in various global head roles.
With more than 20 years of banking and fintech experience, he runs a London-based angel investing platform - PlatformXIT. He focuses on De-FI, Fintechs, BaaS, Wealth Tech, RegTech, Vision AI and blockchain technologies. He is a board director in Colendi, London based new generation of BaaS and Strategic Advisor to Spintop, a blockchain GameFi Ecosystem. Previously, Deniz also served BBVA Garanti, HSBC and QNB Finansbank.
Ilham A. Habibie, Dr.-Ing
Board Advisor
Ilham A. Habibie, Dr.-Ing
Board Advisor
Ilham is the chairman of PT. Ilthabi Rekatama, a private investment company in Indonesia, which he founded in 1991. Through Ilthabi, he has invested into companies in the fields of oil and gas, energy, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, ICT, property, financial services and others.
He is also the Chairman of PT. Visi Media Asia tbk (VIVA); an Indonesian Media Conglomerate (www.vivagroup.co.id), Commissioner at PT. Nusa Halmahera Mineral; a gold mining company at Halmahera – Indonesia (www.nhm.co.id), and Commissioner at PT. Ayoconnect Teknologi Indonesia; an open finance platform company (www.ayoconnect.id).
Ilham recently became the Chairman of PT. Malacca Trust Wuwungan Insurance, Tbk – a general insurance company in Indonesia (https://www.mtwi.co.id).
Ilham’s earlier professional background is with aerospace companies (IPTN, Indonesia; Boeing, USA). Before that he was a Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute for Fluid Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.
Ilham is also a co-founder of the International University Liaison Indonesia (IULI - www.iuli.ac.id) and is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of IULI. He is also a co-founder and Chairman of Board of Trustees of the Habibie Center (www.habibiecenter.or.id), a NGO and Foundation.
He is also currently heading WANTIKNAS, the National ICT Council of Indonesia as its Chief Executive. This is a government advisory body which has cross sectoral participation (www.wantiknas.go.id).
His other current organisational activities include heading the International Chamber of Commerce Indonesia (www.iccindonesia.org) and the Indonesian Muslim Entrepreneur Association (www.ismi.id), and being responsible as a head of the Agency for Research and Technology at the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (www.kadin.or.id). At the end of year 2021, Ilham was elected as vice chairman of The Institution of Engineers Indonesia (http://www.pii.or.id). In August 2022, Ilham became Vice Chairman of Yayasan Visi Indonesia Raya Emisi Nol Bersih (Viriya ENB), an Indonesian-led climate foundation that supports Indonesia to achieve net-zero emissions, climate resilience and equitable prosperity before midcentury, inline with the 2045 Golden Indonesia Vision (https://viriyaenb.org).
He holds a Doktor-Ingenieur (PhD) in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and a MBA from the University of Chicago, USA.
John Sun
Board Advisor
John Sun
Board Advisor
Mr. Sun is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Spectrum Capital Management Company Limited, which conducts private credit investment in Asia, focusing particularly on the Greater China region. He leverages his extensive experience in Asian financial markets and long-standing business relationships with leading financial institutions and corporations.
Previously, Mr. Sun served as Deputy CEO of CLSA Group and was a member of the Group Executive Committee. He was also on the board of directors of CLSA Limited, CITIC Securities Brokerage (HK) Limited, CITIC Securities Futures (HK) Limited, CSI Global Markets Limited, CLSA Asset Management Limited, and CLSA Global Markets Pte Ltd (SG).
He was Chairman of the Capital Commitment Committee of CLSA Group, allocating capital to a diverse range of financing transactions. Additionally, he was a voting member of the Risk Management Committee, which managed market risk, credit risk, and liquidity risk for CLSA Group and directed the overall risk policy for the Group. He also served as a voting member of the Investment Committee, which decided on the Group’s acquisitions and divestments.
Mr. Sun joined CITIC Securities International (CSI) in 2008. He played a pivotal role in establishing the FICC franchise which, in 2017, fully integrated with the CLSA Group. Under his leadership, CLSA’s FICC franchise now serves over 800 institutional relationships globally with specialist sales, trading, and structuring personnel offering products in Rates, Foreign Exchange, Credit, and Commodities. Furthermore, Mr. Sun has significantly developed CLSA’s Structured Finance team into one of the most respected in Asia, providing unconventional solutions to companies with complex financing needs.
Prior to his roles at CSI and CLSA, Mr. Sun worked in structuring and trading MBS/ABS with Bear Stearns in New York, and later helped the US investment bank establish its Asian securitization business in Hong Kong. After JP Morgan acquired Bear Stearns, Mr. Sun joined JP Morgan to help expand their MBS/ABS presence in Asia. He has also held roles in portfolio risk management, trading, and investment management in various companies in the US, where he acquired seasoned experience in asset allocation, portfolio optimization, and quantitative research.
Mr. Sun holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. He is also a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.
Mohammad Ridzuan Abdul Aziz
Board Advisor
Mohammad Ridzuan Abdul Aziz
Board Advisor
Mohammad Ridzuan Abdul Aziz (Ridzuan) has over 20 years of commercially–driven regulatory, compliance and technology experiences in Asia-Pacific. He is currently the Malaysia Country Director and Head of ASEAN Business for WorldRemit, and on the board of KAF Investment Bank, AKRU robo-advisory and Ethis Global Ventures.
He is also the current president of the Fintech Association of Malaysia where among others, focuses on raising Malaysia’s unique combined values of mature on-shore eco-system, nimble Labuan mid-shore framework and wealth of depth & breath from Islamic Digital Economy - for inbound, passthrough and outbound stakeholders.
Ridzuan is one of the advisors for the Labuan Financial Services Authority, Asia Pacific University, Taylor’s University Business School, Quest International University and Policy Streets.In 2013 and 2016, Ridzuan founded regulatory technology advisory firms - RHT Compliance Solutions and CS Technology Solutions Sdn Bhd, respectively. In 2017, Ridzuan was the CEO of Sedania As Salam Capital Sdn Bhd.
He was a regulator with the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (1998) during the Asia financial crisis, the Securities Commission ((2001) and then redeployed to a joint task force between the Securities Commission and Bank Negara Malaysia during the formation of the investment bank concept (2002).
Ridzuan graduated from University of Wales, Aberyswyth (1997) with BSc Economics, majoring in Accounting and Finance. He obtained his MBA, specializing in Management Information System from the International Islamic University Malaysia (2005).