ABOUT HUOBI GLOBAL: MEET THE TEAM MEMBERS AND MILESTONE MADE
Huobi was founded in 2013 as a digital economy company. As a world leading company, it has made a lot of breakthroughs in blockchain and digital exchange around the world.
Huobi Group has expanded into public chain, digital assets trading and wallet, mining pool, proprietary investment, incubation, Digital Asset Research etc., and established a global digital economy industry ecosystem, by investing in over 60 upstream and downstream companies in the blockchain industry.
In a bit to continue developing her blockchain technology and other world-class blockchain applications, Huobi group is working with a lot of countries, among which are Argentina, Russia, Thailand, Nigeria.
In the area of licencing in the digital asset industry, Huobi is far ahead of her competitors.
It is on record that the company has over 1,300 employees and established subsidiary companies and partnership companies in 12 countries, including the U.S., Japan, Thailand, Gibraltar, etc. The Huobi team is dedicated to providing safe, professional, trustworthy, and world class services to its global clients across 170+ countries.
Houbi’s Milestones So Far
In 2013, Huobi was established. In December of same year, it grew to China’s biggest digital asset exchange, recording a turnover of over 30 billion RMB.
In April, 2014 it became the world biggest trading platform on digital assets, with a turnover of over 120 billion RMB.
In April, 2015 Huobi sponsored the "Digital Asset Research Project" at the Internet Finance Laboratory of Wudaokou Finance Institute of Tsinghua University (formerly the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China).
In December 2016, Huobi recorded a cumulative turnover of 2 trillion RMB.
In October 2017, · Huobi initiated its global strategic layout by establishing Huobi Korea Team and putting it into official operation.
By December of same year, Huobi group completed its business layout in Japan with the Group's cumulative turnover exceeding 850 billion USD.
In August 2018, the Huobi group acquired Pantronics Holdings Ltd (01611.HK), a Hong Kong-based listed company.
In December of the same year, the cumulative turnover of Huobi Group peaked to 2 trillion USD.
In April 2019, Huobi Global 24-hour trading volume for spot market reached got to the top 1 (According to CoinMarketCap).
In June of the same year, Huobi announce plan for Huobi Chain together with Nervos to build infrastructures for financial market.
In August 2020, Huobi established DeFiLabs for DeFi research, investment/incubation, and ecosystem building.
Huobi Team Members
Huobi Global is made up of four members and are named below;
Leon Li – Founder and Chairman/CEO. Li is an alumnus of Tsinghua University from the department of Automation. He became an early pioneer and a serial entrepreneur in the field of financial technology.
Before founding Huobi in 2013, Leon was a computer engineer at Oracle, the world’s largest database provider.
Robin Zhu - Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Zhu is in charge of the Operation Centre Management of Huobi Group. He has rich experience on Corporate Management, Practical Data Analysis and Operational Management.
He has worked for Oracle and Capgemini Consulting before. He also has solid experience and in-depth research in the blockchain industry, and a unique insight on blockchain security and big data application.
Simon Wu - Chief Security Officer (CSO).
Wu, the CSO of Huobi Group, is currently in charge of company security and risk control management. Before joining Huobi, Simon previously worked at Didi Chuxing, NSFOCUS, international consulting firms, and government institutions, where he has gained extensive technical research and management experience regarding information security, business security and rick management.
Roy Zhu - Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Zhu is in charge of the management of Huobi's technology centre. He has rich working and management experience. He was the partner and senior vice president of Jinshan Cloud, the senior technical expert of Alibaba, the head of Taobao's local life business, and the head of the product technology centre of Youku.
During his tenure at Alibaba group, he led a team as a technical expert responsible for the research and development of Taobao's core system. As a senior technical manager, he served as the chairman of Youku product technical committee.
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