XI'AN, China, Feb. 9, 2018
/PRNewswire/ -- Future FinTech Group Inc. (NASDAQ: FTFT) ("Future
FinTech", "FTFT" or "the Company"), a financial technology company
and integrated producer of fruit-related products, today announced
that it has hired new management staff to bolster the Company's
professional team and deepen its fintech, finance and marketing
capabilities.
"We are excited to add experienced individuals in fintech to the
FTFT management team to help us to execute our growth strategy in
the fintech sector," said Mr. Yongke
Xue, Chief Executive Officer of Future FinTech. "We continue
to believe that blockchain technology is a disruptive technology
that will change the way companies and individuals interact, and we
are confident that the hiring and promotion of these talented
individuals in the blockchain, fintech finance and fintech
marketing sectors will help to accelerate our growth."
The new additions to the Future FinTech management team are as
follows:
Zhi Yan, Chief Technology
Officer (CTO). Mr. Yan will be responsible for the development
of FTFT's blockchain products and businesses. Mr. Yan is
experienced in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies and has
participated in numerous science and technology development
projects such as the world's largest mining and mining management
platform, the world's first 28nm dual algorithm chip and the
world's first-ever blockchain technology value community registered
with real name users. Mr. Yan is the director of Nova Realm Limited
in which the Company has a 5% equity interest. Mr. Yan has a degree
in Aircraft Design and Fluid Mechanics from Beijing University of Aeronautics and
Astronautics.
Crystal Lee, Executive Vice
President. Ms. Lee has been with the Company since 2011 and has
been involved in capital raising activities such as debt and equity
financing, preferred stock financing, private placements, mergers
and acquisitions and restructurings of the Company. Ms. Lee's
extensive experience in capital raising will further improve the
Company's financial and capital structure optimization strategies.
Ms. Lee is currently the director of the office for the Board of
Directors of the Company. Ms. Lee received a Bachelor of Business
Administration from Xi'an International Studies University and an
MBA from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Youwang Peng, Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Peng was
previously the general manager of Lanzhou Hengxinda Capital Co.,
Ltd. and the Executive Director of Weijing Investment. Mr. Peng
founded and developed the DCON blockchain and digital assets
community in which the Company recently acquired a 60% ownership
interest. Mr. Peng has experience in digital currency finance,
blockchain financial product development, digital currency trading
platforms, Internet loans, fund investments and financing, Internet
private equity and crowdfunding. Mr. Peng has a Masters of
Economics degree from Lanzhou
University of Finance and Economics and is an Entrepreneurial
Trainee at Tsinghua Wudaokou Finance Institute.
About Future FinTech Group Inc.
Future FinTech Group Inc. ("Future FinTech", "FTFT" or the
"Company"), is a fintech company that is developing an operational
platform to utilize blockchain technology to participate in the
shared economy, as well as for the distribution, marketing and
sales of various products. The Company's legacy business is the
production and sales of fruit juice concentrates, fruit beverages,
and other fruit related products in China and certain overseas markets, and FTFT
is utilizing fintech solutions to operate and grow this business.
The Company is also developing a regional agricultural products
commodities market with the goal to become a leader in agricultural
finance technology. For more information, please visit
http://www.ftft.top/.
Safe Harbor Statement
Certain of the statements made in this press release are
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning and protections of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the
Exchange Act. Forward-looking statements include statements with
respect to our beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations,
anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future
performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors, which may be beyond our control, and which may cause
the actual results, performance, capital, ownership or achievements
of the Company to be materially different from future results,
performance or achievements expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of
historical fact are statements that could be forward-looking
statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements
through our use of words such as "may," "will," "anticipate,"
"assume," "should," "indicate," "would," "believe," "contemplate,"
"expect," "estimate," "continue," "plan," "point to," "project,"
"could," "intend," "target" and other similar words and expressions
of the future.
All written or oral forward-looking statements attributable
to us are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary
notice, including, without limitation, those risks and
uncertainties described in our annual report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31,
2016 and otherwise in our SEC reports and filings,
including the final prospectus for our offering. Such reports are
available upon request from the Company, or from the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including through the SEC's Internet website
at http://www.sec.gov. We have no obligation and do not
undertake to update, revise or correct any of the forward-looking
statements after the date hereof, or after the respective dates on
which any such statements otherwise are made.
View original
content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/future-fintech-announces-new-management-team-hires-300596396.html
SOURCE Future FinTech Group Inc.