Board of Directors

Alexander King Ong KONG (Alex KONG) has served as the Executive Chairman and Director of CURRENC Group since January 2022. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of CURRENC Group, and has been a member of the Board since 2014. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of TNG (Asia) Limited, a Stored Value Facility licensee in Hong Kong offering fintech services from e-wallet to cross-border money transfer. Mr. Kong is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in technology, e-commerce, payment gateway and business solutions. He has a long track record of enterprise software development for well-known conglomerates and insurance companies (such as Manulife, AIA, FDW and ING) through his software company, SINO Dynamic Solutions Limited. Mr. Kong launched TNG (The Next Generation) Wallet in November 2015. TNG Wallet specializes in serving the unbanked and foreign domestic helpers by providing financial services that include electronic payment, P2P money transfer, real-time global remittance, global cash withdrawal, global bill payment, and global SIM card top-up. In 2016, it received the coveted Stored Value Facilities License (SVF0003) from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Over the years, the awards and accolades won by Mr. Kong and his companies include The InnoStars Award 2021, 2017 Deloitte Rising Star Hong Kong, and 2017 Deloitte China Rising Star. Mr. Kong has a Bachelor of Science in Travel Industry Management from the University of Hawaii. He was also a member of the Financial Services Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council from May 2019 to March 2023.

Eng Ho NG has served as a Director of CURRENC Group since December 2018 and is currently the non-executive Chairman of ZWEEC Analytics Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based private company specializing in computer vision technology solutions for the safeguarding of national water resources. He is also an Independent Director of Finger Motion Inc., a NASDAQ company involved in mobile payment and recharge platform solutions in China, and Almazing Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based retail analytics company. Mr. Ng has been an independent non-executive director of CURRENC Group since December 2018 and TNG (Asia) Limited since September 2017. He had also served as an independent director of a number of publicly listed companies in Singapore (Mencast Holdings Ltd, 2008 to 2013, and China Taisan Technology Group Holdings Ltd, 2017 to 2018) and on NASDAQ (Alvarion Inc., 2009 to 2012). Prior to this, Mr. Ng was the Executive Vice President (Operations) at Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, for five years. Mr. Ng was also the Managing Director of Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd (Keppel T&T), a company listed on the Singapore Exchange Ltd and a member of the Keppel group of companies. Mr. Ng has also served as a career officer in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). He joined the SAF in 1973 and was sent on a scholarship to the United Kingdom to be trained as an officer, initially at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and subsequently at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, where he graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Telecommunications System Engineering. Mr. Ng served as Chief Signal Officer of the SAF until his departure in September 1990 to pursue a new career in the private sector.

Eric Weinstein has served as the Chairman of the Board of INFINT since November 2021. He was previously a Managing Director at Greywood, LLC, a multi-family investment firm.  Prior to Greywood, Eric was a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman. He was a member of Neuberger Berman’s Investment Risk Committee, a member of NB Alternative Investment Management’s Investment Committee and was Chairman of Hedge Fund Solutions. Neuberger Berman is the successor firm to Lehman Brothers’ asset management division. At Lehman, Eric was a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management. Before joining Lehman, Eric co-managed a fund of funds and a hedge fund seeding fund at Larch Lane Advisors. Previously, he served as the head of Risk Management Advisory Services with SBC Warburg/O’Connor. Prior to joining O’Connor, he was a vice president at First Manhattan Consulting Group and an associate at Morgan Stanley. Eric earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School and a BA from Brandeis University. He serves as a member of the board of overseers for the Brandeis University International Business School.

Kevin Chen has served as a member of the Board of Directors of CURRENC Group since August 2024. Mr. Chen is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edoc Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: ADOC), a SPAC focused on businesses in the North American and Asian-Pacific healthcare and healthcare provider sectors, since August of 2020. Mr. Chen also has since February of 2019 served as a member of the board of directors of Horizon Global Access Fund, a segregate, Cayman Islands-based, portfolio of Flagship Healthcare Properties Fund, which is a leading U.S. Healthcare REIT. Mr. Chen has also acted as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Economist of Horizon Financial, a New York-based investment management firm that offers cross-border solutions for global clients, with a specialty in investment in U.S. healthcare facilities, since January of 2018. He is responsible for advising clients investing in healthcare facilities in the United States. In addition, Mr. Chen currently serves as a Manager of ACM Macro LLC, a registered investment advisor and affiliated entity of Horizon Financial Advisors LLC. He took this position in June 2017. From 2013 to 2017, Mr. Chen managed portfolios at several investment firms that were not registered with FINRA. From January of 2017 to June 2017, Mr. Chen acted as Chief Strategist at Hywin Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Chen was the Chief Investment Officer at Three Mountain Capital Management LP from August of 2013 until January of 2017. He has extensive experience with and has cultivated a broad network in investment management, particularly in the context of healthcare facilities. In his extensive business experience, Mr. Chen held essential positions such as co-founder and vice-chairman of the Absolute Return Investment Management Association of China, director of asset allocation at Morgan Stanley from August 2004 to August 2008, and manager at China Development Bank from September 1998 to August 2000. Mr. Chen has been a guest speaker at Harvard University, Fordham University, Pace University, and IESE Business School. He is a former member of the Adjunct Advisory Committee and former Interim Head of the Private Sector Concentration program of Master of Science in Global Affairs, New York University, and has been an adjunct professor in the Center for Global Affairs there since 2012. He received his PhD in Finance from the Financial Asset Management Engineering Center at University of Lausanne, Switzerland, an MBA in Finance from the Center for Economic Research, Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and a B.A. in Economics from the Renmin University of China in Beijing, China.

Kanagaraj Lorenz (Raj) has served as the Director of CURRENC Group since 2024. Mr. Lorenz has over thirty years of experience in the banking and electronic payments industries. Mr. Lorenz is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad, a licensed Investment Bank that is listed on the Malaysian stock exchange, a position he has held since 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Lorenz served as Group Chief Executive Officer of GHL Systems Berhad (GHL), a publicly listed company in Malaysia, for six years, until 2017. Prior to GHL, Mr. Lorenz worked for Citibank for 14 years in Malaysia and Australia in various positions in Investment and Corporate Banking covering treasury risk management, Chief Financial Officer, and finally, as Head of Marketing of a Corporate Bank unit. Mr. Lorenz left Citibank in 2000 to create an internet payment start-up in Singapore that was the first real-time Direct Debit gateway of its kind in Southeast Asia, which was sold to NETS Pte Ltd (NETS), a large payments company in Singapore that is jointly owned by the Singapore banks. Mr. Lorenz also spearheaded NETS’ investment into China with a joint venture partner and interconnected the China UnionPay (CUP) network with NETS so that CUP cards could be accepted in Singapore. This was the first time CUP cards could be used outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. He has been actively involved in various fintech companies and associations in Malaysia. Mr. Lorenz is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants. His initial employment was with Blair, Sanders & Co., a firm of Chartered Accountants based in London, U.K. Subsequently, he was employed by Ernst & Young in their Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and New York, USA offices. Prior to becoming a Chartered Accountant, Mr. Lorenz completed his undergraduate degree at Sunderland University, United Kingdom.