Yat Siu is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Animoca Brands, a global
leader in blockchain and gaming that aims to deliver digital property
rights to the world's gamers and Internet users,
thereby creating a new asset class, play-to-earn economies, and a more
equitable digital framework contributing to the building of the open
metaverse. He is also Founder and CEO of Outblaze, an
award-winning pioneer of multilingual white label web services.
Mr. Siu has been an early advocate for the use of blockchain and
non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the gaming industry, to allow gamers to
enjoy true ownership of their game assets, data, and equity.
He successfully steered Animoca Brands to a leadership position in
blockchain, gaming, NFTs, and the open metaverse. Recently valued at
USD5.8 billion, the company operates a series of NFT-centric
subsidiaries and products and has invested in over 150
blockchain-related companies to date, to build one of the largest
blockchain portfolios globally.
A veteran technology entrepreneur, Mr. Siu began his career at Atari
Germany in 1990 before moving to Hong Kong to establish Hong Kong
Cybercity/Freenation, Asia’s first free web page and e-mail
provider. He then set up Outblaze in 1998 and sold Outblaze’s
messaging unit to IBM in 2009. He subsequently pivoted Outblaze to
become an incubator of projects and companies to develop digital
entertainment services and products, including Animoca Brands in
2014.
He founded ThinkBlaze, Outblaze’s research arm that investigates
meaningful issues in technology. In 2017, he set up Dalton Learning Lab,
an afterschool digital lab that specializes in teaching
skills such as divergent thinking and design thinking.
Mr. Siu has been awarded Global Leader of Tomorrow at the World Economic
Forum, Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the DHL/SCMP Awards, and was
recognized as one of Cointelegraph’s Top 100 Notable
People in Blockchain in 2021.